Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – The legal status of the five Caribbean islands which make up the Netherlands Antilles changes from October 10, five years after the process to draw up a new relationship between the islands and the Netherlands began. In the new set up, Curacao (population 142,000) and Sint Maarten (population 37,000) become independent countries
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
CCRE – The municipality of Segonzac is the first in France to become capital of “slowness”, having adhered to the movement. Cittaslow is an international movement of “slow cities”, its symbol being a snail.Read More
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
EUROCITIES – Bologna won the CIVITAS technical innovation award for its intelligent transport system (ITS) that integrates traffic monitoring and rule enforcement. Genoa won the CIVITAS City of the Year award, which recognises the CIVITAS network member which has been most active, responsible and progressive in developing sustainable mobility measures. Read More
Monday, October 11th, 2010
IISD – The re-naming of the community list is timed in advance of the fifth meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Conference of the Parties serving as Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 5) and the 10th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 10) to the CBD, which
Monday, October 11th, 2010
CSIRO – The authors of a new book have called for the development of more robust international ocean and ice sheet monitoring and modelling programs designed to help community adaptation planning keep pace with the threatof rising sea levels. Read More
Monday, October 11th, 2010
IFREMER – Unprecedented program of the World Census of marine life carried out since 2000, Census of Marine Life (CoML) concludes today in London. He has documented a sea change in diversity with richer and more suffering greatly impacts caused by humans than previously thought. Ifremer has participated in this program during these ten years, particularly through exploration
Monday, October 11th, 2010
GLOBAL ARAB NETWORK – Participants in the first session of the 26th GCC environmental coordination committee meeting discussed on Sunday here a number of key issues, mainly the GCC ‘Green’ initiative and sustainable development. During the session, outcomes of the third committee meeting of the initiative, as well as recommendations of the 25th GCC environmental coordination committee
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – Water, sun and wind: Morocco has launched an ambitious programme to harness the elements to produce “green” electricity to reduce its dependence on energy imports. And eventually it even hopes to export the energy produced. Lining the hills of Dhar Saadane, 126 windmills overlook the city of Tangiers, in what site manager Loubna Farabi says
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
THE HIMALAYAN – Ecosystem services build on ecological values like clean air, clean and abundant water, and wildlife habitat that benefits human communities to enjoy natural process and biological diversity can create ecosystem market that helps to provide biodiversity conservation and economic development of human community. Read More
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
building co uk – Paul Morrell, the government’s chief construction adviser, has indicated that publically procured building projects will be required to adopt building information modelling. The concept behind building information modelling or BIM is that everyone on the project shares the same 3D CAD model to design, build and, ultimately, run the building. Read More
