SDSN Networks in Action 2020
<p>SDSN’s National and Regional Networks promote the localization and implementation of the SDGs, develop long-term transformation pathways, provide education for sustainable development, and launch
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Paris restaurants turn food scraps into biogas
A group of Paris restaurants is turning food scraps into biogas and compost ahead of a new law that will force thousands of French food outlets to recycle their organic waste. Some 80 restaurants, caterers
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Corporate Knights announces latest additions to its widely followed Global 100 index at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
<p>Corporate Knights, the Toronto-based media and investment advisory company released the 2014 iteration of its widely-followed Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World. In its tenth year, the Global 100 index has come to be recognized as the gold standard in corporate sustainability analysis and companies listed here are the top overall sustainability performers in their respective industrial sectors.</p>
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Pakistan under performing on world food index
Pakistan has been ranked at the number 97 in the world food index, a new ranking released by Oxfam showed. The Netherlands nudged past France and Switzerland as the country with the most nutritious, plentiful
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More smokers worldwide than in 1980: study
More people smoke worldwide today than in 1980, as population growth surges and cigarettes gain popularity in countries such as China, India and Russia, researchers said Tuesday. 270fce4639917f8434891238d4d47f072d999972For
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GSLV propels India into exclusive club
ISRO’s heavy-duty rocket with indigenous cryogenic booster blasts off successfully, injects GSAT-14 into orbit India joined the big league of space powers at 4.35 pm today when its mega launcher, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle or GSLV-D5, powered by sophisticated rocket technology, including for the first time an indigenously built state-of-the-art cryogenic booster, successfully blasted off from the Shriharikota (SHAR) launch pad in coastal Andhra Pradesh.
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Suzlon Group wins two contracts totalling 40 MW with GDF Suez Futures Energies
REpower Systems SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group – the world’s fifth-largest manufacturer of wind turbines, has concluded with GDF-SUEZ Futures Energies two contracts, totalling 40 MW,
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India ranked fifth out of eight most industrious countries in world
The survey found that French workers were considered the laziest in the world India has been ranked one of the most industrious nations in the world, according to a recent German survey. Monster Worldwide, which runs one of the world's largest employment websites of the same name, and GfK, the largest global market research institute in Germany, released a survey that asked workers from eight nations to rate global 'industriousness'.
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Smelling a rat
Genetically modified maize causes cancer: that was the gist of one of the most controversial studies in recent memory, published in September 2012 by Food and Chemical Toxicology. Well, actually, it doesn’t.
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France opposes shale gas development
French Environment Minister Philippe Martin reiterated his government's strong opposition to the exploitation of shale gas, despite a parliamentary report advocating more flexibility towards unconventional
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Negotiators pinning hopes on rich nations’ bounty at climate talks
WARSAW: Though the ongoing climate talks has failed to bring cheer to developing countries as rich nations have, so far, not made any commitment to set aside a corpus to battle global warming, hope springs