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 Gujarat government will connect over 6,000 villages by March 2006, under the e-gram project, the panchayat minister of the state informed the state assembly in the first week of April. • The Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium in Kochi, Kerala, which recently hosted a one-day international cricket match between …
www.aboriginalaustralia.com COLONIALISM VINDICATED "We don't own the land, the land owns us,' is the declaration on the mast head of the site under review. But don't go by such lofty statements. Run by the Alice Springs-based, Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre, the site takes us on a guided tour of …
Watch out Monsanto et al. A small non-profit biotech research organisation in Australia is out to change the industry. cambia has found a new way of transferring genetic material to plants; it bypasses the heavily-patented agrobacterium transformation (at) method. Moreover, cambia researchers have placed this tool in the public sphere …
Geoff Gallop, premier of Australia's Western Australia state, announced on February 9, 2005, that six per cent of the power generated in the state by 2010 will be through renewable energy sources. Earlier, the target was one per cent. The aim is to save one million tonnes of greenhouse gas …
australia has introduced a labelling and standards scheme for domestic water-using appliances, the first of its kind in the world, which can be an example for India's water guzzling cities. The Australian parliament passed the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (wels) Act in the first week of February 2005. Under …
In a surprise move, the Australian government, which vociferously opposes whaling at all international fora, has decided to not support a lawsuit filed by an Australian animal rights group against a Japanese whaling company. The Humane Society International had last year sued the Kyodo Senpaku company for alleged illegal slaughter …
Conservationists in Tasmania, Australia, have locked horns with the fishing industry to protect the orange roughy fish species. The Humane Society International (hsi) has issued a call for protecting the underwater mountains, in which the fish lives, from trawlers. It wants 70 underwater mountains south of Tasmania on the national …
The ability of many introduced fish species to thrive in degraded aquatic habitats and their potential to impact on aquatic ecosystem structure and function suggest that introduced fish may represent both a symptom and a cause of decline in river health and the integrity of native aquatic communities. The varying …
Coalfires, both underground and on the surface, are a serious problem in most major coal-producing countries of the Asia-Pacific region including China, India and Indonesia. Australia also experiences similar problems but on a somewhat smaller scale. Coal fires produce large quantities of CO2 along with several other noxious gases such …
When the literature of a university symposium begins with "The desert is a European idea', you know it means business. Especially if you come from the non-European universe. The Charles Darwin University (cdu) of Darwin in Australia is embarking into a new territory in its bid to rejuvenate itself, improve …
calling trouble: As per a study of Sweden-based Karolinska Institutet, 10 or more years of mobile phone use increases the risk of acoustic neuroma, a tumour on the auditory nerve. no more allergic: Researchers from the University College London, UK, have found that by inactivating a molecule called p110delta, effects …
The 106-metre long Veronica, one of the world's biggest trawlers with three factories on board, is heading for Australia. However, gauging the popular reaction, not everyone is enthusiastic about the new arrival. The new South Wales and South Australian state governments have already announced a ban preventing its entry. The …
Australian Elections A group of 30 anti-logging protesters disrupted a press conference of Labour leader Mark Latham in Tasmania, Australia asking him to reveal his forestry policy. Earlier, Latham had attacked Australian prime minister's John Howard's record on the environment. Howard had said he would like to see an end …
Lately, water issues have dominated Australian politics as the country faces its worst-ever drought in 100 years. Policymakers are now pinning their hopes on a series of measures, including a national water plan, to save dying river systems. The plan is unique in that it necessitates the active involvement of …
• More than 50 development experts have formed a national alliance which will try to take knowledge-based services of information and communication technologies (icts) to every village in India by 2007. The National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies for Basic Human Needs will promote technology innovation in rural ict …
• Indian seafood exporters are disappointed with the Union government's indifference even as marine food exports remain stagnant at us $1.3 billion. Indian exporters now want a separate ministry to deal with aquaculture. They are also planning to take up issues such as the absence of legislation to curb indiscriminate …
The Australian government is painting a rosy picture about how it has allocated a record us $1.6 billion towards environmental funding in the country's budget for 2004-2005. Authorities say the amount is about us $279 million more than the estimated expenditure in 2003-2004. But activists describe these claims as window-dressing, …
