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$1 trillion US carbon trading market by 2020: study

New Energy Finance London, Washington 14-Feb-2008 The United States will be home to a $1 trillion carbon emission market by 2020 if federal and state

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Global corporate giants ask suppliers to volunteer CO2 emissions information

Carbon Disclosure Project London, UK 20-Jan-2008 The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a collaboration of over 315 institutional investors (including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Allianz and

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China’s Health Biotech Industry: An Asian Dragon is Growing

McLaughlin Rotman Centre for Global Health University of Toronto / University Health Network 7-Jan-2008 Government funds innovation but venture capital needed; Wary investors ‘need to

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Economists: Reduce fish catch now for bigger net profits later

Australian National University, Crawford School of Economics and Government 6-Dec-2007 A new and compelling argument for reducing fish harvests – the profit motive – could

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European Union forests expanding, absorbing carbon at surprisingly high rate: study

University of Helsinki 29 Nov 07 European Union countries likely require an old ally – Mother Nature and her forests – to meet an ambitious

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Marine scientists warn human safety, prosperity depend on better ocean observing system

Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans, Plymouth, UK, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 25-Nov-2007 Speedy diagnosis of the temper and

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Curbing world’s most fatal diseases: consensus created by health experts offers global prescription

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health Toronto 21-Nov-2007 20 ‘Grand Challenges’ in chronic non-communicable diseases, 1st agreed roadmap to reduce rising toll of slow killer illnesses

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Great potential to improve collection, recycling of Europe’s electronic waste, says UN report

United Nations University 15-Nov-2007 Low collection rates and consumer awareness, rising need to harmonize regulations, UNU advises European Commission Only about 25% of Europe’s medium

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Human clones: New U.N. analysis lays out world’s choices

United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Yokohama, Japan 10-Nov-2007 Report says ban on human reproductive cloning, coupled with restricted therapeutic research, is global compromise

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Global corporate climate change report released

Carbon Disclosure Project London 24-Sep-2007 ‘Climate Disclosure Leadership Index’ launched, President Clinton to speak New York / London — The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a

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Amid spiralling government interest, world’s top 350 DNA barcode scientists meet in Taipei

Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Smithsonian Institution 14-Sep-2007 Major advances foreseen in health, consumer and environment protection, more About 350 DNA barcoding experts from

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Pioneering study catalogs ethical issues of scientific research in developing world

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Toronto 10 Sep 07 The first comprehensive examination of the ethical, social and cultural (ESC) challenges faced by major science

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Restoring soils vital to feed world, forestall climate change: experts

Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, Reykjavik, and United Nations University 30 Aug 07 Protecting soils claimed as an immediate fix to counter climate change; 150

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Tuna Past and Present

Census of Marine Life, Washington DC 5-Aug-2007 Historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe; Tagging reveals migration, breeding secrets of declining population

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Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations

United Nations University 27 Jun 07 Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents “the greatest environmental challenge of our times” and governments must overhaul policy approaches

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Investors flock to renewable energy and efficiency technologies: UN study

United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, Paris 20 Jun 07 Renewables shed fringe image — Transactions leap to record $100 billion

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UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor

United Nations Environment Programme Risoe Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, Denmark 29-Apr-2007 UNEP-led project expands to other developing countries Life for an estimated

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Winnipeg Student Wins A Triple Crown in High School Science; Grade 12 Researcher, 17, Seeks Potential Alternative to Chemotherapy

May 8, 2007 Canadian Biotechnology Education Resource Centre A Manitoba student has a first-ever Triple Crown of high school science, his project seeking a potential

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India’s biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health / Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy 9-Apr-2007 India’s health biotech firms are emerging as a major global player,

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Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed

19-Mar-2007 United Nations University Book catalogues unethical research, gene theft in Pacific countries The Pacific region has experienced some of the world’s worst examples of

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UN, industry, others partner to create world standards for e-scrap recycling, harvesting components

6-Mar-2007 United Nations University Growing need for elements in high-tech scrap –- often incinerated in poor countries Standardizing recycling processes globally to harvest valuable components

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Titans of biodiversity science call for united, authoritative voice to inform decision-makers

19 July 2006 DIVERSITAS, Paris Robert Watson Warning that Earth is on the verge of “a major biodiversity crisis,” 19 of the field’s most distinguished

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