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
France
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Farmers blast environment rules in French street protests
French farmers held protests across the country on Wednesday, including a pre-dawn street blockade near the farm ministry in Paris, to attack what they see as burdensome environmental regulations linked
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Syngenta, Bayer pesticides pose honeybee threat: EFSA
Three widely-used pesticides made by Switzerland's Syngenta and Germany's Bayer pose an acute risk to honeybees, the European Union's food safety watchdog said on Wednesday, but stopped short of linking
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Insecticide 'unacceptable' danger to bees, report finds
Campaigners say the conclusion by the European Food Safety Authority is a 'death knell' for neonicotinoid pesticides The world's most widely used insecticide has for the first time been officially labelled
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India set to raise cost of N-reactors
With India’s nuclear partners expressing dissatisfaction with the country's civil nuclear law, the government is considering raising the cost of reactors so as to cover the liabilities of the operators as well as the suppliers to keep its ambitious civil nuclear energy programme on the track. Shortly after India got a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) in September 2008 to undertake nuclear commerce, it struck high-ticket nuclear deals with the US, France and Russia. However, the nuclear cooperation with these countries has not made much headway because of the concerns expressed by them over the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Law which was passed by Parliament in 2010.
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Global food crisis will worsen as heatwaves damage crops, research finds
Harvests will fall dramatically during severe heatwaves, predicted to become many times more likely in coming decades The world's food crisis, where 1 billion people are already going hungry and a further
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France's EDF launches its first wind farm in Poland
French power company EDF has launched its first wind farm in Poland, a 48 megawatt (MW) facility located in the northern part of the country, the firm said on Thursday. The utility's unit, EDF Energies
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Business consortium set to upgrade 32 wind farms in France
A consortium of businesses has agreed a deal to buy a portfolio of France-based onshore wind farms for around €350m (£284m). The 32 wind farms have a combined capacity of 321.4 megawatts using turbines
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Global Dynamism Index 2012: business growth fundamentals
India ranked 40th among 50 economies in the world in terms of “dynamism” and 5th in terms of economics and growth according to Grant Thornton’s Global Dynamism Index (GDI) 2012.
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EU ministers hail "balanced" fishing quota deal
European Union fisheries ministers hammered out a 2013 quota deal on Thursday which they said struck a compromise between protecting over-exploited stocks such as haddock and plaice and safeguarding fishermen's
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French power bills must rise to cover green costs: CRE
A tax paid by French consumers as part of their electricity bills would have to rise 80 percent to cover development of renewable energy, energy regulator CRE said on Tuesday. Renewable energy, which