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
-
Can foreign policy make a difference to health?
In 2006 seven foreign ministers from Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal, South Africa, and Thailand initiated a dialogue on the inter-linkages between health and foreign policy, with a focus on how health matters to foreign policy and whether foreign policy can make a difference to health.
-
Designing leaves for a warmer, crowded world
The genetic controls of leaf shape could allow us to boost crop yields, meet the challenge of feeding the world and adapt to climate change.
-
Ash shutdown costs airlines over $1bn
Germany, UK, France To Open Air Space For Limited Flights Paris: As airline losses from the volcanic ash cloud spiraled over $1 billion on Monday, airlines started demanding EU compensation and the aviation industry sharply criticized European governments for not using scientific measures to evaluate the ash and open up their airspace.
-
What it will take to feed the world
Marion Guillou is the chief executive of France
-
Moselle in France woos Tatas to set up Nano plant
Paris: The province of Moselle in France on Tuesday said Tata Motors should explore setting up a manufacturing unit for the Nano in the region as it could facilitate the company's plans to launch the world's cheapest car in Europe by 2011.
-
France seeks Nano plant
PARIS: The province of Moselle in France on Tuesday said Tata Motors should explore setting up a manufacturing unit for the Nano in the region as it could facilitate the company's plans to launch the world
-
Life cycle assessment of biosolids land application and evaluation of the factors impacting human toxicity through plant uptake
Due to increasing environmental concerns in the wastewater treatment sector, the environmental impacts of organic waste disposal procedures require careful evaluation. However, the impacts related to the return of organic matter to agricultural soils are difficult to assess.
-
NPCIL, Areva finalising contracts for two reactors
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and Areva, one of the biggest reactor manufacturers of France, are finalising contracts for two 1,650 MWe-European Pressurised Reactor plants at Jaitapur, Maharashtra, by the year-end, according to French Ambassador to India Jerome Bonnafont.
-
Consumption-based accounting of CO2 emissions
CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are the primary cause of global warming. Much attention has been focused on the CO2 directly emitted by each country, but relatively little attention has been paid to the amount of emissions associated with the consumption of goods and services in each country.
-
Human pathogens abundant in the bacterial metagenome of cigarettes
It has been reported that cigarette smoking is a risk factor for bacterial pneumonia and other respiratory infections, and that smokers are more likely to harbor bacterial pathogens in their oral and nasopharyngeal cavities than nonsmokers.