Deal continues education and research partnership in water and sanitation. Suez Environnement and Unesco-IHE Institute for Water Education have renewed their agreement to cooperation in education and research in water and sanitation for ...
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At first glance Burundi and Ethiopia look like total opposites. Burundi is the smallest country in Africa while Ethiopia is one of the largest. But the two countries have a lot more in common than you might think. Agriculture is the ...
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The International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), BASF and other companies in the chemical industry want to improve the chemical transportation safety in Africa. The project ...
Following reports about U.S. surveillance worldwide, a United Nations panel has adopted a draft resolution on potential threats to human rights such as the right to privacy in the digital age. The draft resolution, approved without a ...
Since 1st November Friedrich Barth new Managing Director of German Water Partnership (GWP) in the GWP office in Berlin. For more than twenty years Friedrich Barth has been working for public and private organisations in the policy fields ...
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XI'AN - Energy-efficient technologies will be promoted in 20 brick manufacturing plants and 40 villages across China next year, as part of pilot efforts to cut emissions and save energy, said the project's authorities. It is part of a ...
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The frequent occurrence of extreme weather conditions in China has caused an average of more than 2,000 deaths and up to 200 billion yuan ($32.8 billion) of direct economic loss every year since the 1990s, according to Beijing's latest ...
There was no stopping one of the most powerful storms ever recorded when it slammed into the Philippines on Friday, leaving thousands dead and displacing millions more. But the swath of death and destruction from Typhoon Haiyan might have ...
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The Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE has decided to contribute €300,000 to relief efforts in the Philippines. With funding from BASF, BASF Stiftung, a charitable foundation based in Germany, will support the disaster relief ...
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World food prices rose in October after falling in each of the previous five months, pushed by higher sugar prices, the United Nations Food and Agriculture organization said, also predicting that prices would remain stable going forward, ...
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A pioneering consortium aimed at helping developing and emerging nations improve the efficiency of their oil & gas and renewables’ industries was launched at a United Nations Association Scotland (UNAS) charity dinner in Edinburgh on ...
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Qatar Petroleum (QP) and the Dubai Carbon Center of Excellence (DCCE) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that establishes a clear framework of communication and effective coordination between the two parties to strengthen their ...
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China and the United States, the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, are increasing their cooperation in fighting climate change. US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said the US has a very good relationship with ...
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According to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), by 2020, China's annual total number of outbound tourists will reach more than 200 million people. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said recently that China will do everything ...
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More than 3.4 billion people, nearly half the world's population, own at least one mobile phone in 2013. As of 2010, more than 90 percent of people worldwide were covered by a mobile phone signal, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend ...
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