Wind and solar benchmarks for a 1.5°C world
This report presents a detailed methodology for determining the amount of wind and solar capacity that is required for a country to align with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature goal. While the focus
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Germany To Ban Cultivation Of Monsanto GMO Maize
Germany will ban cultivation and sale of genetically modified (GMO) maize despite European Union rulings that the biotech grain is safe, its government said on Tuesday. The ban affects US biotech company Monsanto's MON 810 maize which may no longer be sown for this summer's harvest, German Agriculture and Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner told a news conference.
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Science and Technology - Briefs
food The secret of cheese For the past 800 years, farmers in Gouda, Netherlands, were making a yellow creamy cheese, from cow
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Unemployment Surges in Germanys Golden City
The family-run Opel car dealership here has closed after 80 years. After the local SinnLeffers department store shut down, the grocery store in the basement put beer and pasta displays in the store windows where the mannequins once stood. The unemployment rate is shooting up as industrial jobs vanish.
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Intellectual property fuels a global sense of competitiveness
The global economy is undergoing a major shift. For a nation to be competitive it must strengthen its research agenda, become innovative, strengthen and protect its intellectual property, and find resources for the continuing education of its citizens.
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India sees red over Wests climate norms
Manoj Mitta | TNN Bonn: MRV is a new acronym on which developed and developing countries are sharply divided in the ongoing climate change negotiations meant to culminate in an ambitious deal in Copenhagen in December.
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At U.N. Talks on Climate, Plans by U.S. Raise Qualms
At the start of the United Nations climate talks here 12 days ago, the Obama administration
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U.N. Climate Talks Threaten Our Survival: Saudi Arabia
United Nations climate talks threaten Saudi Arabia's economic survival and the kingdom wants support for any shift from fossil fuels to other energy sources such as solar power, its lead climate negotiator said. Contrasting interests of different countries are challenging faltering climate talks, meant to forge by December a new global deal in Copenhagen to curb man-made climate change.
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UNFCCC meeting on climate change at Bonn: a CSE update (3 - 6 April 2009)
The UNFCCC meeting on Climate Change in on at Bonn, Germany. Hectic negotiation is on to reach to certain consensus on the globe
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Carbon Cap Deal "Very Difficult" - UN Climate Chief
It will be hard work getting rich nations to agree cuts in greenhouse gases that are deep enough to satisfy the demands of developing countries at climate talks, UN's climate chief told Reuters on Monday. Some 175 nations are meeting this week in Bonn in one of a series of UN-led meetings meant to forge a deal in Copenhagen in December to replace or extend the Kyoto Protocol.
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Small Islands Urge Deep CO2 Cuts, Fear Rising Seas
Small island states have sharpened their calls for the rich to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, saying low-lying atolls risk being washed off the map by rising ocean levels.