The Circularity Gap Report Norway
<p>The Circularity Gap Report Norway is an in-depth analysis of how Norway consumes raw materials—metals, fossil fuels, biomass and minerals—to fuel its societal needs. Currently, 97.6% of
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Regime management at the bottom of the food web
Fishing down the food chain is a controversial issue that demands further exploration. Redfeed is a marine species located on the second to last level on the food web. It is also one of the potential saviors of the aquaculture industry. The role of effective management of this species is of utmost importance to avoid the potential catastrophe associated with its overharvesting.
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Can foreign policy make a difference to health?
In 2006 seven foreign ministers from Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal, South Africa, and Thailand initiated a dialogue on the inter-linkages between health and foreign policy, with a focus on how health matters to foreign policy and whether foreign policy can make a difference to health.
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Save the whales, not the whalers
In 1986, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) implemented a moratorium on commercial whaling. Many people believed that this would save the whales and end forever the industrial slaughter that had decimated entire species. Not so. A proposal before the IWC could lead to the resumption of commercial whaling as early as next year.
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`The world will have to change its pattern of use of energy'
Gro Harlem Brundtland, - former Prime - Minister of Norway . and now a UN r , envoy on climate change, says that environmental concerns will have r to be followed - by decisive political action THIRTY-EIGHT years ago, Indira Gandhi was the only Prime Minister to attend the historic UN Con- ference on Human Environ- ment in Stockholm in 1972.
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Norway pledges Rs.7 crore for farm project in delta regions
PUZHUTHERI (KARUR DISTRICT): Norway has pledged an estimated Rs.7 crore for a project studying the impact of climate change on agriculture and rice production in the Cauvery delta in Thanjavur and Krishna delta of Andhra Pradesh, according to Norwegian Minister for Agriculture and Food Lars Peder Brekk.
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Time running out on climate change: Norwegian Minister
CHENNAI: For every one degree rise in temperature, 6 million tonnes of wheat will be lost in India, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN estimates. How do you feed a hungry, growing world population with climate change knocking at the door?
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Norway says no to genetically modified seeds
Sarah Hiddleston CHENNAI:
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Norwegian team arrives to study climate change
THANJAVUR: As part of a project on climate change in Cauvery basin and its impact on rice production, a Norwegian team visited Thanjavur district on Thursday.
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World leaders support Pachauri
Leaders from Bhutan, Norway and Finland, among other countries, today supported Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman R K Pachauri on the glacier melting issue and said the recent attacks on the IPCC and climate change by no means damaged the credibility of the institution or the science.
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Tracking down the worst polluters in Europe
The dirtiest power plants in Europe still emit enormous amounts of air pollutants. The sulphur emissions from one plant match those of ten EU countries combined. On 9 November, the first inventory of the new European pollutant release and transfer register (E-PRTR) was published.