This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
The prevalence of class III obesity (body mass index [BMI]≥40 kg/m2) has increased dramatically in several countries and currently affects 6% of adults in the US, with uncertain impact on the risks of illness and death. Using data from a large pooled study, we evaluated the risk of death, overall …
Epidemiological studies have reported associations between air pollution exposure and increases in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Exposure to air pollutants can influence cardiac autonomic tone and reduce heart rate variability, and may increase the risk of cardiac arrhythmias, particularly in susceptible patient groups.
The European Union’s top court backed Sweden’s refusal to subsidize a Finnish wind farm in a ruling that supports the EU’s current system where a government usually pays for power projects only in its own country. Sweden’s Energy Agency was justified to refuse aid to Finnish power producer Aalands Vindkraft …
In just one year, health ministry officials have misused at least $70 million of funds provided for a major development programme primarily financed by the World Bank and the governments of Britain, Canada, Sweden and the United States, according to an official audit report. The audit of the Health Population …
Swedish companies are often regarded as global leaders when it comes to responsible and sustainable business practices. This scoping study seeks to uncover the level of awareness on the Swedish companies in managing water-related risks. The scoping study is conducted with 13 of the largest Swedish companies listed at Nasdaq …
Sweden called on the European Union to act against a harmful form of chemicals that contaminated its drinking water, saying the issue is bound to affect other member states. Highly fluorinated chemicals, which are regularly used in fire extinguishers at airports, by fire departments and the military, have polluted Swedish …
Efforts to put a value on greenhouse-gas emissions to contain global warming are being hurt as countries from Australia to Russia and Japan pull back from carbon-reduction commitments, according to the World Bank. “While some nations are taking concrete steps forward on carbon pricing, recent developments in others are a …
The aim of this study was to investigate effects of long-term aircraft noise exposure on body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and Type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, the researchers explored the modifying effects of sleep disturbance
According to official statistics from Eurobserv’ER, 23.4 percent of the electricity in the European Union came from renewable energy sources in 2012. The total output for 2012 has been estimated at 763.5 TW. This represents an important increase from 2011, when these energy sources brought "only" 20.4 percent of total …
Four out of five people in the European Union recognize that fighting climate change and using energy more efficiently can boost the economy and employment, according to a special Eurobarometer opinion poll on climate change published today. Several countries which suffered most in the economic and financial crisis are among …
Swedish firm Midsummer, a leading supplier of production lines for cost effective manufacturing of flexible thin film CIGS solar cells, has developed a unique process to recover leftover rare metals such as indium and gallium when manufacturing thin film CIGS solar cells. The unique process will extensively reduce thin film …
Governments the world over are facing an acute need for new or modernized infrastructure; the estimated shortfall in global infrastructure debt and equity investment is at least US$ 1 trillion per year. There is no fundamental scarcity of private capital – investors are frequently falling short of their target allocations. …
India ranks 25th among 43 countries in the Asia-Pacific region Noting India continued to suffer from low but improving levels of economic freedom, the latest Index of Economic Freedom ranked the nation 120th globally and 25th among 43 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Though India is rated a "mostly unfree" …
The European Union is on course to approve cultivation of a new type of genetically modified maize for the first time in more than a decade, according to a draft proposal from the bloc's executive seen by Reuters. The proposal was drawn up after Europe's second highest court last month …
Lithuania, holder of the EU presidency, has made a new proposal to weaken rules on how much carbon new cars can emit from 2020, in line with demands from Germany and its luxury manufacturers, EU diplomats said. The proposal is stoking anger in Brussels, where Germany's negotiating tactics are regarded …
EU car emissions fell 2.6 percent in 2012 from 2011, official figures showed on Wednesday, adding to a fierce Brussels debate on how quickly automakers can improve vehicle fuel efficiency. The decline took average new car carbon emissions down to 132.2 grams per kilometer (g/km) in 2012, close to a …
A changing climate is increasing the frequency, intensity, duration and spatial extent of heat waves. These changes are associated with increased human mortality during heat extremes. At the other end of the temperature scale, it has been widely speculated that cold-related mortality could decrease in a warmer world. We aim …
LAHORE, Sept 11: World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan’s (WWF-Pakistan) project on ‘City-Wide Partnership for Sustainable Water Use and Water Stewardship in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of Lahore’ was presented at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, last week, says a press release issued by the WWF. The project highlights …
Researchers have developed a new oral diarrhoea vaccine which in a clinical phase I-study has shown promising results to combat the disease that kills 300,000 children per year in the developing world.Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the primary cause of diarrhoea in children.There is no ETEC vaccine available on …
Maternal smoking during pregnancy (SDP) seems associated with reduced birthweight in the offspring. This observation, however, is based on conventional epidemiological analyses, and it might be confounded by unobserved maternal characteristics related to both smoking habits and offspring birth weight. Therefore, we apply a quasi-experimental sibling analysis to revisit previous …
