Saturday, December 11th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – All Dutch dog breeders will be required by law to register and microchip all puppies from next summer, junior farm minister Henk Bleker told parliament on Friday. ‘It should become completely normal to ask for registration documents when you buy a dog, just like buying a car,’ Bleker said. Read More
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The Russian nuclear icebreaker “Rossiya” has sailed to the Bering Strait to meet the Swedish icebreaking tug “Tor Viking”, which is planning to go through the Northeast Passage to Europe. The sailing season on the Northern Sea Route officially ended a month ago. Read More
Friday, December 10th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – At the UN climate summit, thousands of delegates are under immense pressure to negotiate sensible solutions in a matter of days. It’s no wonder that such meetings often end in failure. But there are alternatives to the large-scale approach. Read More
Friday, December 10th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – The Dutch government’s strategy of making the Netherlands a gas hub in Europe will provide an economic stimulus of 21.4 billion euros and create up to 13,600 jobs, concludes a study by Brattle Group commissioned by the economic affairs ministry. Read More
Friday, December 10th, 2010
ARAB NEWS – Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, received winners of this year’s Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water at his palace here on Wednesday. Prince Sultan congratulated the winners and urged them to conduct more useful research works in water for the benefit of entire humanity.
Friday, December 10th, 2010
NEW TIMES RWANDA -Rwanda’s huge infrastructure gap particularly in areas of energy and transportation dampens private sector productivity and are a constraint to growth, a senior at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.This is in addition to higher transport, water and power costs that also are a major obstacle to economic development. Read More
Friday, December 10th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – Despite its title, Map of a Nation is not a “biography of the Ordnance Survey”. Rather, its sphere of interest is confined to British cartography 1747-1846. Moreover, despite its meticulous scholarship, the book is less a history than a celebration of the OS, an almost triumphalist account of an apparently irresistible ascent. Read
Friday, December 10th, 2010
WETLANDS.ORG – During a celebrity side event at the climate change conference in Copenhagen private investor George Soros said he stands ready to invest in the rehabilitation of drained peatlands in Indonesia. He announced this in an event which discussed international partnerships under REDD+; a new UNFCCC mechanism to reduce emission from deforestation and degradation in
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
HELCOM – The facilitation of activities to re-create a healthy Baltic marine environment by 2021 within the framework of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan will be the topmost issue on the agenda. “The Delegations will discuss the implementation status of the HELCOM action plan and how to accelerate this through the identification of good examples
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
BUSINESS RECORDER – Pakistan is confronting daunting challenges of land degradation and desertification, especially in dry-land ecosystems, as it makes impossible to adopt cost-effective land degradation assessment. This was stated by Additional Secretary Environment Kamran Ali Qureshi while addressing the inaugural session of two-day national workshop “Role of Spatial Technology” Geographical Information System & Remote Sensing
