Friday, March 26th, 2010
SANTIAGO TIMES – Construction experts are assessing housing and public infrastructure in the greater Metropolitan Region, after the Governor of Santiago, Fernando Echeverria, and president of the Chilean Chamber of Construction, Lorenzo Constans, signed an agreement this week. Read More
Monday, March 8th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The African Development Bank has approved its 2010-2014 agricultural sector strategy. The strategy seeks to position the bank to contribute more effectively to agriculture. It is expected to enhance the continent’s food security and reduce poverty levels while promoting conservation of natural resources. The bank’s president, Donald Kaberuka, says the strategy focuses
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – A report by the United Nations published on Monday warned that developing countries face increasing environmental and health hazards from electronic waste. The report’s release is timed to coincide with a week-long UN conference in Bali, Indonesia, on the topic which brings together officials and environmentalists from than 100 countries. Read More
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The ministry of Energy is seeking consultants to carry out studies for electricity generation from flower farms’ waste and biogas from sewerage systems. The move comes as pressure piles on Kenya to diversify to renewable energy sources as hydro power is prone to drought. Read More
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
TIMES OF INDIA – The government has issued a warning to National Geographic TV channel for the incorrect representation of the Indian map with regard to J&K in one of its programmes. ‘World’s Deadliest Animals: Asia, Land Of Extremes’ showed a map that was “not in conformity with the outline map of India as published
Monday, December 7th, 2009
ALL AFRICA – The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development bank Group (AfDB) Group, approved on 2 December 2009 in Tunis, a USD 245 million (152 million UA*) loan to finance a road sector support project in Tanzania. This funding constitutes 66% of the total
Friday, December 4th, 2009
WALL ST JOUR – RWE Innogy said Friday it has placed an order for a naval vessel specially designed to install large offshore wind power turbines, aiming to significantly reduce waiting periods for the limited global transportation capacities of this kind. Read More
Friday, November 27th, 2009
AFROL NEWS – The majority of the 1.5 billion people who live in the dark are in the least developed countries (LDCs) of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, according to the new report, The Energy Access Situation in Developing Countries: A Review Focusing on the Least Developed Counties and Sub-Saharan Africa. Read More
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
NORWAY POST – The North Sea has the capacity to store EU’s total production of CO2. Storage of carbon dioxide may become a major industry for Norway, SINTEF chief researcher Erik Lindeberg believes. Norway has gained acceptance for a proposal to change international regulations so that CO2 may be exported to other countries. Read More
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
SWEDEN GOV – The proposals put forward by the Inquiry give a clearer international perspective to Sweden’s system of environmental objectives. They define more precisely the role of the Riksdag (the Swedish Parliament), the Government and government agencies in bringing about the changes in society that need to occur within a generation. The importance of
