Monday, July 19th, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – Turkey’s Sustainable Energy Financing Facility, or TurSEFF, was launched in Istanbul last week with a credit line of $200 million pledged to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Turkey. The project is a partnership between the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or EBRD, and four Turkish Banks: Akbank, Denizbank, Garanti
Monday, July 19th, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – Local communities will get the power and money to run bus services, set up broadband internet networks and take over neighbourhood recycling schemes under a mass transfer of power from the state to the people, David Cameron will announce today. Read More
Monday, July 19th, 2010
BOHOL STANDARD – This is not something unusual. Every year Pag-asa is accused of inaccurate weather forecasting. Even Pres. Noynoy Aquino, this early of his administration, has reprimanded Pag-asa for not telling correctly that Manila would be hit hard by Basyang. The blame game is back at the expense of Pag-asa who cannot do much
Monday, July 19th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – Businesses and economic planners use elaborate systems to measure various types of capital including financial assets and human resources. Now UN-backed experts say they should take biodiversity into account as well. Read More
Monday, July 19th, 2010
KYIV POST – Bulgaria and Russia have agreed upon and signed a road map for building the South Stream gas pipeline, as well as a protocol on Russian natural gas supplies to Bulgaria. Bulgarian Economy, Energy, and Tourism Minister Traicho Traikov and Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko signed the documents in Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko
Friday, July 16th, 2010
SCOTSMAN – The latest economic report published by Oil & Gas UK, the pan-industry trade body, has highlighted signs of growing confidence across the sector with plans to develop a potential 70 fields in the pipeline. Both exploration work and development drilling is expected to exceed last year’s levels in the search for oil and
Friday, July 16th, 2010
UNESCO – The European Space Agency (ESA) in the context of the Committee of Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) started the TIGER initiative as a concrete action following the resolutions of the World Submit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg. The initiative aims at assisting African countries to overcome problems faced in the collection, analysis and
Friday, July 16th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – Amsterdam’s metro system is to be closed between central station and Amstel station for almost five weeks for maintenance, but no work will actually be carried out, the Parool reports on Thursday. The tunnel was scheduled to be closed to allow contractors to improve fire safety, but a dispute over the contract
Friday, July 16th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The two Murmansk registered oil tankers Varzuga and Indiga are right now on their way through the partly ice-covered Northern Sea Route on their way to Chukotka in Russia’s Far East. The Arctic shipping season 2010 is closely followed by the world’s shipping interests as global warming makes the sea ice retreat in
Friday, July 16th, 2010
ENGLAND NORTHWEST – A Manchester-based data centre provider is to invest £2 million in expanding its overall site capacity. UK Grid, which also has a centre in London, has already started to expand its Science Park in Manchester. The firm is currently installing an extra 170 racks of data storage space as part of the first
