Friday, October 21st, 2011
We invite you to comment on a new version of the UN-REDD Programme Draft Social and Environmental Principles and Criteria. REDD+ has the potential to deliver substantial benefits beyond carbon. However, fulfilling this potential depends on careful planning and implementation that effectively address such issues as monitoring, transparent and effective governance, participation, inclusiveness of all
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
The agreement is the latest collaboration between the capital and the Seychelles. The cooperation includes aviation and renewable energy. Under the deal, a team from Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) will work with the Seychelles planning authority to develop a master plan for the city of Victoria on Mahé Island. Read More
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Farmers and land sector managers should look into early funding opportunities from the government’s carbon tax package, says Independent MP Rob Oakeshott. The tax, which is expected to pass through the Senate next month with the Green’s support and be implemented from July 1, 2012, offers a range of opportunities for agriculture within the scheme beyond
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
The government-commissioned report warns of potential humanitarian disasters because of climate change. It says the cost of acting now would be much less than the cost of the conflicts and huge loss of life that would otherwise ensue. The report focused on the issue of human migration patterns. The Migration and Global Environmental Change Foresight Report is the
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
A ten-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment and Forests visited the Department of Space headquarters and its satellite assembly facilities on Tuesday, an ISRO release said. Dr T.Subbarami Reddy, Standing Committee Chairman, was accompanied by three members of the Rajya Sabha and six members of the Lok Sabha. Read More
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The Japanese Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, is an instrument on board NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The map it produces is called a global digital elevation model, and gets its 3D effect by combining two slightly offset two-dimensional images. The update to the ASTER data adds 260,000 images to the already-expansive map and improves
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Russia is to spend $11 billion on its brand new GLONASS navigation system, hoping to make it as good as American rival GPS. The plan is to cover the whole planet with GLONASS, which requires more satellites to be launched. This year alone, seven of them are scheduled to reach the Earth’s orbit. The developers also hope
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The Mining Cadastre Office has issued out a total of 12,000 mining titles leases, it was learnt yesterday. The Minister, Musa Sada disclosed this in Abuja during the Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geologists (COMEG) stakeholders’ forum on Compliance and Enforcement in the Extractive industries . He said in the next 10 years, the plan of the government
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
The state government may be pitching for the ambitious metro rail project, but the biggest hurdle it is likely to face is escalating costs as now the metro will be extended beyond Ahmedabad to Dholera. The original plan was to connect Ahmedabad to Gandhinagar, but covering such a short distance did not seem financially viable. In
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Österreichische Bundesbahnen Infrastruktur AG, the Austrian railway infrastructure company, has awarded an order to Siemens Mobility and Logistics to equip the Nordbahn route between Vienna and Břeclav (Czech Republic) with the European Train Control System (ETCS). An ETCS Level 2 of the Trainguard 200 RBC type will be installed along the 87 km rail link and eleven stations
