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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Hopeful but Wary at Davos
Could it be time to exhale?
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SC stops lafarges mining ops
The Supreme Court on Friday stopped French cement giant Lafarge from carrying out mining of limestone at its mines in Meghalaya for its cement plant in Bangladesh, saying mining in the eco-friendly area could not be allowed.
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Bluefin tuna ban receives conditional support from France
France announced its support for adding bluefin tuna to Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a move that would effectively ban all trade in the large, migratory fish. But environmentalists say France
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Euro, price fall help EU wheat exports
LACKLUSTRE European wheat exports have found some relief in a fall in both the euro and grain prices but this is unlikely to be enough to wrest business from Black Sea competitors or rein in swelling stocks, traders said.
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World races to help Haitian survivors
The US and other nations were on Friday racing to send help to Haiti where tens of thousands of dead and injured remain buried in rubble or laid by the roadside after the country
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India-France nuke deal comes into force
New Delhi: The India-France deal for civil nuclear cooperation came into force on Thursday with foreign secretary Nirupama Rao and French ambassador Jerome Bonnafont exchanging the instruments of ratification of the agreement which was signed by the two countries on September 30, 2008.
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Alcatel leads carbon project
A consortium led by Alcatel-Lucent yesterday outlined a research programme to produce technology within five years that can cut the carbon emissions from telecoms networks by a factor of 1,000.
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In the big league now
Ever since his second term as prime minister began in May, Manmohan Singh has been out on foreign tours so often that in South Block he is now jocularly known as the 'Flying Sikh'--a sobriquet reserved for India's most famous athlete of the 1960s.
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Sarkozy pledges altered carbon tax
Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to implement an amended carbon tax yesterday following last week's ruling by France's constitutional council that the original proposal was unlawful, writes Ben Hall in Paris .
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Sarkozy under fire on flu vaccine fiasco
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, was at the centre of a political storm after health authorities admitted they had a huge oversupply of vaccines for the H1N1 swine flu virus and were trying to sell them on to other countries.