Climate Change

Greenhouse gases: Rich countries are outsourcing carbon-dioxide emissions

WHEN a country reports its carbon emissions to the UN, it is the carbon dioxide that goes out of chimneys, exhaust pipes and forest fires of the country's own territory that gets counted. But what about the carbon emitted elsewhere by people making goods that the country imports?

Publication Date: 
28/04/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Climate Change, Global
Energy

A watchdog with bite

The world must strengthen the ability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to make independent assessments of nuclear safety. (Editorials)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7344/full/472389a.html
 

Publication Date: 
28/04/2011
Nature
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7344
389
Tags:
Nuclear Safety, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nuclear Accidents, Japan, Global, Energy
Energy

Reactors, residents and risk

A world population analysis reveals the locations that could put the most people in danger should a nuclear accident occur.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110427/full/472400a.html

Publication Date: 
28/04/2011
Declan Butler
Nature
472
7344
400
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Nuclear Power Plants, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Accidents, Japan, Narora APS, Global, Europe, India, Asia, N C America, Energy
Hazardous Waste

Activists occupy oil rig in fight to prevent risky' Arctic drilling

The fight to stop the global oil industry exploring the pristine deep waters of the Arctic has been dubbed the new cold war, and early on April 22 it escalated as environmental activists from 12 countries occupied the world's second largest rig on its way from Turkey to Greenland to drill among the icebergs.

The protesters found the 52,000-tonne semi-submersible platform Leiv Eiriksson at aroun

Publication Date: 
25/04/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Arctic, Oil Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Oil Exploration, Greenpeace, NGO, Petrochemical Industry, Global
Health

Understanding mobile phone radiation and its effects

There is as yet no conclusive evidence of an adverse effect of mobile phone use on people’s health. An inter-ministerial committee has, however, asked that mobile phone manufacturers prominently display certain health-related technical features.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2011
Manasi Dash, Arun Mehta
Economic and Political Weekly
46
17
22
Tags:
Radiation, Telecommunication, Health Education, Brain Cancer, India, Delhi, Global, Research, Health
Health

Why 30 years of AIDS is only the tip of an iceberg

June marks 30 years since the first report of AIDS - a syndrome that has killed an estimated 25 million people worldwide. Yet this year's anniversary is somewhat arbitrary: the virus responsible for AIDS has probably been circulating within human populations for 100 years. Why did it take so long to detect it?

Publication Date: 
16/04/2011
Hayley Crawford
New Scientist
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2808
12
Tags:
AIDS, Medical Research, United States Of America (US), Africa, Diagnostic Methods, Global, Health
Health

Pandemic influenza preparedness framework for the sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits

The objective of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework is to improve pandemic influenza preparedness and response, and strengthen the protection against the pandemic influenza by improving and strengthening the WHO global influenza surveillance and response system ("WHO GISRS"), with the objective of a fair, transparent, equitable, efficient, effective system for, on an equal

Publication Date: 
16/04/2011
WHO
Tags:
Influenza, Health, Developing Countries, Health Care, WHO, Viral Diseases, Global
Economy

Global trade to grow 6.5% in 2011: WTO

Geneva: Global trade is projected to grow by a modest 6.5% this year as uncertainties continue to persist in major economies like Japan, WTO economists said.

For 2011, the economists are forecasting

Publication Date: 
08/04/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
WTO, Trade, Global, Economy, Development, Japan, Natural Disasters, India
Climate Change

Survey on REDD Communications Barriers and Needs- White Paper

This study presents a report on the current needs and gaps in information amongst engaged REDD+ stakeholders.
The Forum interviewed 70 individuals identified either as directly working on REDD or as an engaged stakeholder in the REDD readiness
process.

Publication Date: 
07/04/2011
Evan Johnson, Tracy Johns, Danielle Knight
Forum on Readiness for REDD
Tags:
Climate Change, REDD, Forests, Information, NGO, Technical Information, Global, UNFCCC, People
Energy

Clean energy progress report

Clean energy technologies are making clear progress globally, but fossil fuels continue to outpace them and we are entering a period of uncertainty for nuclear power after the natural disasters in Japan says this new IEA analysis on global clean energy technology deployment. 

Publication Date: 
04/04/2011
International Energy Agency
Tags:
Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Nuclear Power, Biofuel, India, Global, Fossil Fuels, Carbon Capture and Storage, Electric, Vehicles, Energy

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