Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Alberta’s environment minister defended the Canadian province’s environmental record, but said air- and water-quality monitoring related to oil-sands production hasn’t been coordinated and needs to be improved. Rob Renner, in an interview, said the province’s environmental record, including its air and water monitoring, has been unfairly portrayed by critics as inadequate. He said the province has
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
This report documents the configuration, calibration and validation of the river water quality model for the mainstem of the NSR from Devon to the Alberta-Saskatchewan Border. The model represents hydrodynamics, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, organic carbon, nutrients, algal interactions and other parameters influenced by tributaries, municipal wastewater treatment plants, industrial facilities, combined with sewer overflows
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Just to bring to your attention the first issue of IISD’s new publication, Latin America and Caribbean Regional Update, which includes the latest news and information on sustainable development issues throughout the region.The first issue includes several stories on forestry and biodiversity, including recent activities on bigleaf mahogany and on the International Year of Forests. To
Monday, May 9th, 2011
Educational projects, motivational training, field and cooperation with primary and secondary schools in Slovakia – these are activities which the Ministry of Environment is giving increased attention. The main objective of these activities is to improve the environmental awareness of nature and landscape protection in Slovakia.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
The Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment, Katherina Reiche, has opened today in Shanghai, the international trade fair for practical environmental IFAT China. Companies in the areas of water supply, sewerage, waste disposal, recycling, air pollution control, environmental technology and renewable energies will exhibit their products and services. “China’s demand for environmental technologies is enormous. The
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D., was confirmed by unanimous consent of the U.S. Senate and appointed by President Obama to serve as assistant secretary of commerce for environmental observation and prediction and deputy administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dr. Sullivan, who previously served as NOAA’s chief scientist, is a distinguished scientist, renowned astronaut
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Interest in “nested” approaches to REDD+ has grown steadily as policy makers, practitioners and investors seek to reconcile approaches to reducing, and rewarding, emissions reductions at different scales – national, subnational and project. The 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Cancun marked the UNFCCC’s formal acknowledgement of subnational approaches
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Over the past year a number of forestry and climate change specialists have asked if we would offer our adaptation courses in Spanish. We are now proud to announce our four course adaptation module in Spanish beginning May 17, 2011. Please read the course description below—or follow these links: Español OL 340 Adaptación al Cambio
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Our objective was to compare and evaluate the practical applicability to REDD+ of ten forest management, social, environmental and carbon standards that are currently active worldwide: Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB), CCB REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards (CCBA REDD+ S&E), CarbonFix Standard (CFS), Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Global Conservation Standard (GCS), ISO 14064:2006, Plan Vivo
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Kyocera Corporation (President: Tetsuo Kuba) announced that it has supplied approximately 6-megawatts (MW) of the company’s multicrystalline silicon solar modules for a large-scale solar power plant near Turin, Italy. The large-scale solar plant in Cigliano (Piedmont region), with an output of approximately 6MW, is the largest installation in Italy to have been equipped with Kyocera solar
