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• ‘Space technology holds key to challenges facing India’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  By Fakir BalajiThiruvananthapuram, Jan 4 (IANS) Space technology and its applications can help India meet its food and energy security needs, a top space scientist said here Monday.“Space technology and applications have a significant role to play in dealing with the challenges we are facing due to shortages and ...
  4 days ago

• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  3 weeks ago

• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
  3 weeks ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  3 weeks ago

• COP Report by Saleem Ali, University of Vermont: The Ambivalent Security Agenda in Copenhagen

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 125
  To communicate a sense of urgency, the security paradigm is being used to push for self-sufficiency in energy, and hence "national security," at COP-15. Such a connection, if configured with carbon-free energy sources, could provide a win-win outcome for many. This argument has been embraced both by the left and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  3 weeks ago

• Eye on Environmental Security:NATO Says Dont Fight the Planet

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 125
  Climate and security are under discussion today in Copenhagen at the Danish governments side event , which brings together heavyweights such as NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, African Union Chair Jean Ping, and Danish Foreign Minister Peter Stig Møller. Fogh ...
  3 weeks ago

• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
  3 weeks ago

• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate and Security Hopes

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 125
  The Copenhagen climate negotiations have something for everyone. These mega-conferences attract all types, and the topical diversity of the side events is dizzying. We at the Wilson Centers Environmental Change and Security Program are focused specifically on the climate and security discussions highlighted in an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nobel Pursuits: Linking Climate Efforts With Development, Natural Resources, and Stability

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 125
  The only mention of climate change in President Obamas Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech falls squarely in the climate and security context. He introduces the climate imperative by highlighting natural resources and development connections to stability and human well-being. In these two paragraphs, the President ...
  4 weeks ago

• Eye on Environmental Security:Water Conflicts Enter the Fourth Dimension

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 125
  The  Pacific Institute  has just released an updated version of its renowned Water Conflict Chronology in a new interactive form. The online map depicts water conflicts from the Biblical flood to this years December 3 protest in Mumbai , pinpointing their location and chronological order. Pop-up text boxes ...
  4 weeks ago

• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
  4 weeks ago

• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
  4 weeks ago

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