Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The Ministry of Lands and Resettlement is working hard to improve its land administration procedures and capacity to facilitate successful social and economic development of the country. The project will focus on improved procedures in cadastral examination, recording and archiving, harmonised land registration and cadastral systems, geodetic network, increased land administration capacity and improved monitoring of
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Statoil, together with its Luva field partners, has selected a Spar platform to develop the field. As a gas transport solution has also been decided, a major step has now been taken towards deep-water production in the Norwegian Sea. The Luva field, which is a deep-water pioneer in the Norwegian Sea, may be the first to
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
A study published in Nature Climate Change this week measured both the biomass of different types of tropical forests and the emissions lost via deforestation, providing more accurate data than was previously available, according to lead author Alessandro Baccini. That’s important for creating confidence in nascent carbon markets. Read More
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Finland comes up notoriously short in the Alps department, as successive failed attempts to lure the Winter Olympics in this direction have proved beyond doubt, and the capital region is particularly poorly furnished with anything much larger than an ambitious molehill, but there might just be a “Mount Helsinki” on the map if one dogged
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
According to CNA News of December 24, 2011, the National Space Organization of Taiwan (NSPO) plans to launch FORMOSAT-5, an indigenous earth observation satellite carrying a remote sensing instrument and other scientific payloads such as the Magnetic Field Instrument in 2014, and FORMOSAT-7 in 2015 and 2017. FORMOSAT-7, a joint constellation program between Taiwan and the US, consists of 12 meteorological satellites
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Some of the major challenges we are facing in the mining sector today is funding. As you are aware, there are three things that stimulate mining anywhere in the world. Read More
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Ensuring the poor or the most vulnerable sections of society benefit from REDD+ is key to building both national and international legitimacy, and foster successful delivery of conservation and social objectives. Equitable benefit sharing issues at a community or household level are overlooked in both academic and non-academic literature compared to distributional issues at international
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
It will discuss the types of GIS products and services being provided by public agencies to external organizations and the nature and legal basis of agreements for cost sharing and funding of GIS programs. Read More
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
So why could we be living in the 1990s? I think we’re at the point of no return with licences. We can go two ways, one where everything converges and is awesome or it all falls down and goes wrong. Read More
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Updated air pollution indicators have been published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). They include indicators presenting past emission trends, contributions of different sectors and analysis of reasons for past changes. The indicators cover a range of substances affecting the ozone layer, acid rain and air quality. Four are from the EEA’s Core Set of
