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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Activists draw attention to missing French journalist
Chocolate Industry
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<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Tonnes of deadly toxic waste, which killed 10 people and made thousands ill in Ivory Coast were recently shipped out of the country in sealed containers, bound for a treatment plant in France. <br>
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Mark of protest
On July 27, a group of Greenpeace activists entered a field of genetically engineered maize in southern France and carved a giant "crop circle' with an "X' in the field. The action, taken to mark the
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Stem cell research through
The eu has agreed in a compromise that its six-year us $65 billion budget for scientific research will fund embryonic human stem-cell research, so long as it does not involve destruction of
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Chikungunya virus assumes epidemic proportions
How the disease became an epidemic
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Waging a war
The French government's plan to build a new nuclear reactor near the port of Cherbourg in Normandy province has sparked large-scale protests in the country. Between 12,500 to 30,000 anti-nuclear
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In court
high price: A French court has imposed the highest-ever marine pollution fine of about us $980,000 for a 61-km fuel slick, off the French coast, in 2005. The captain and the owner of the container
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About turn
For the third time, Le Clemenceau has been forced to turn back and return to France. The French government summoned the decommissioned ship back even though France's defence minister argued that
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Imported poison
The French farm ministry recently found abnormally high levels of cadmium in animal feed. The ministry said the cadmium, which causes serious liver and kidney damage, has been sourced to a 120-tonne
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Asbestos: white death
Regardless of the amount of hazardous asbestos contained in Le Clemenceau, India imports thousands of tonnes of asbestos and asbestos products every year. Asbestos is imported to India in three categories:<br> <br> <font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Articles of asbestos cement;<br>