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While much of the negotiations at the UN climate change meet in Bonn (28 March to 8 April) centred around targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions - mainly, but by no means exclusively by industrial countries, and funding developing countries to follow suit - the transfer of energy-efficient technologies was also hotly debated. This follows in the wake of the negotiations in Bali in 2007, where developing countries, among some 190 present, agreed to take "nationally appropriate" mitigation actions in the context of sustainable development, supported and enabled by technology, financing and capacity-building, in a "measurable, reportable and verifiable" manner. The proviso was that such actions would take into account "differences in their national circumstances". ...
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Saturday,11 December, 2010  |  Hits: 129

Asia: LG Unveils first MBR process for Wastewater Treatment - Two months after the Company announced plans to enter the Water treatment business

LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled its first wastewater treatment solution, the Green Membrane Bioreactor (G-MBR) process, just two months after the company announced plans to enter the water treatment business. Designed with the latest in efficient and advanced technologies, G-MBR signals LG’s long-term plan to be a major player in the water treatment industry. By employing LG’s slimmer flat-type microfiltration membrane modules and optimizing the space in between, LG’s membrane bioreactor -- the main component of the G-MBR process -- requires 34 percent less space than conventional MBRs, making it more efficient and easier to install. ...
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Buenos Aires bottling company CABELMA is first to introduce innovative PET waste sorting system in South America

Buenos Aires-based bottling and plastic container manufacturer CABELMA will be the first company in South America to benefit from a world-class sensor-based PET waste sorting system when it is installed at its new $23.5m recycling plant currently being constructed on the outskirts of its home city. Manufactured by TITECH Germany, the PET waste sorting system will enable Cabelma to recover transparent PET fractions quicker and more efficiently than ever before. Able to sort a throughput of 5.2 tonnes waste per hour, the system uses infrared sensors to grade the purity of the fractions in an instant ensuring the high quality recovered fractions. ...
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Obama Offshore Oil Plan Fails to Protect Fragile Arctic, Polar Bears From Drilling

WASHINGTON— Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced plans on Wednesday to revise the national offshore oil-drilling plan that, while protecting areas off Florida and the Atlantic seaboard, would leave drilling in polar bear critical habitat off Alaska on the table. The new proposed plan, covering the years 2012-2017, is virtually the same as the Bush administration’s 2007-2012 plan, which was struck down as unlawful by the courts. Secretary Salazar also announced he was moving forward with plans to allow Shell to drill off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge next summer. “While protecting the fragile coasts of Florida and the Atlantic is important, there is no excuse for continuing to consider drilling in polar bear critical habitat off the coast of Alaska,” said Brendan Cummings, senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity. “If the risk of an oil spill is too great for Florida, it is also certainly too great for Alaska.” ...
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NASA images reveal disappearing mangroves worldwide

In August NASA and the US Geological Survey released the first-ever satellite analysis of the world's mangrove ecosystems. What they found was dire: mangroves covered 12.3% less area than previously estimated. Now, NASA has released images of the world's mangrove ecosystems (see below), which currently cover 137,760 square kilometers. Yet this number keeps shrinking: mangroves are vanishing rapidly due to rising sea levels, deforestation for coastal developments, agriculture and aquaculture. ...
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Turning Wastewater Into a Revenue Stream

Safely getting rid of what we flush away each day is the unglamorous role of the wastewater treatment plant. But a new process that turns sewage into high-quality fertilizer proves that creative minds can find inspiration for innovation just about anywhere. ...
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4th Annual Advanced Wind Technology and Investment Summit 2011

Currently, China's wind power installed capacity has reached 30 million KWs and it is expected to increase to 135 million KWs in 5 years and 513 million KWs in 20 years. This means in the next 20 years, China will add an average of about 25 million KWs of wind power installed capacity and invest more than 25 billion Euros in the wind power market every year. The land-based wind energy resource in Xinjiang accounts for 37% of the national total. By the end of 2015, Xinjiang's wind power installed capacity will reach 60 million KWs. ...
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Leaders rally to keep the tiger’s future burning bright

The Year of the Tiger ends in early February. Chinese zodiac aside, this hasn’t been a good year for the tiger. Even golfer Tiger Woods has had a better year than his namesake animal. And, as you know, his year sucked. The situation for the tiger worldwide has become so precarious that politicians, scientists, conservationists, and bankers from 13 countries where tigers live met in Russia in November to discuss ways to save it from extinction. Government leaders from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, and Russia signed the St. Petersburg Declaration, with the aim of doubling the world tiger population by 2022 – the next Year of the Tiger. The agreement calls for improved habitat protection and enhancement, and a crackdown on illegal poaching and trade in tiger parts. ...
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Leaders rally to keep the tiger’s future burning bright

  The Year of the Tiger ends in early February. Chinese zodiac aside, this hasn’t been a good year for the tiger. Even golfer Tiger Woods has had a better year than his namesake animal. And, as you know, his year sucked. The situation for the tiger worldwide has become so precarious that politicians, scientists, conservationists, and bankers from 13 countries where tigers live met in Russia in November to discuss ways to save it from extinction. Government leaders from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, and Russia signed the St. Petersburg Declaration, with the aim of doubling the world tiger population by 2022 – the next Year of the Tiger. The agreement calls for improved habitat protection and enhancement, and a crackdown on illegal poaching and trade in tiger parts. ...
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TALKING GREEN 2.48, from MY GREEN CHANNEL

" TALKING GREEN " weekly e-Newsletter of My GREEN CHANNEL, an initiative of LAKSHYA [ issue 2.48, Friday, 26th November 2010 ] Dear Friends , Honestly from a not so confident beginning on the 1st of January 2009 to today….. ! 100 weeks of talking GREEN with you all ! a life changing experience from all of here at LAKSHYA and My Green channel. Credit definitely goes to all of you there. Thank you guys . you all have been the source of inspiration with you regular feedbacks , comments and queries which always keeps us motivated . From a personal mailing list of 842 friends of mine to subscribers reaching the six digit frame.! It's been a wonderful experience of learning and sharing the world of concerns and responsibilities of hope and possibilities and definitely from gloomy black to pleasant green !. 100 means different for different achievers,.. be it Sachin Tendulkar on the cricket ground or my dad's school celebrating its 100 year of establishment or my 100 weeks with you all.! But everywhere there is an excitement and a feel of celebration. Our celebration is redefining our commitments to grow better and be with you in more new ways and taking forward the dream of making my world aware of what is the need of the time to protect our planet ! Enjoy the special articles of this issue envisioning the future and the present in its most apt way by few of the prominent faces of environment world. GREEN CHANNEL's objective has been always to educate and interact with the strength of the common man in finding way for a better planet. Please step forward to share news of change to your known world …! We appreciate your solidarity in growing together….! With GREEN hope and GREEN thoughts ….………… ENJOY READING! Uzzwal Madhab President / Executive Director LAKSHYA Foundation, New Delhi , INDIA GREEN LEAKS WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage. Readmore FAO Seed Distribution and the Biopiracy Controversy In rural parts of the developing world where many people depend on subsistence farming practices, food security is not about consistent access to a supermarket but about consistent access to seed. Small farmers typically depend on local seed systems, in which farmers save and exchange seed, as well as commercial suppliers for the seeds that they have to buy from agro-dealers. Readmore Earth`s lakes are warming - NASA research of 167 large lakes worldwide In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change. Researchers Philipp Schneider and Simon Hook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, USA, used satellite data to measure the surface temperatures of 167 large lakes worldwide. Readmore How culture counts Environmentalists have paid little heed to the 'softer' aspects of the movement, of which the need to change our culture is one of the most important. At the 8th International Media Forum on the Protection of Nature, organised by Greenaccord in Italy annually and held this time in the mediaeval town of Cuneo earlier this month, the focus was on "People Building the Future: Boundaries and values for a sustainable lifestyle". Readmore Report calls for radical redesign of cities to cope with population growth Megacities on the Move report says authorities must start planning their transport infrastructure now for a future when two thirds of the world's population will live in cities 'Planned-opolis' - just one of four scenarios of future cities envisaged by Forum for the Future in its Megacities on the Move report Readmore POWER IN THE HOME : Electricity for All A few innovative steps, taken urgently, can greatly bridge the gap in access to electricity for poor consumers. Structural reform will take years, and given its complexity and poor record so far, cannot be the only pre-occupation, write Sreekumar N and Shantanu Dixit. Readmore Recognising the human right to water For millions of people, the law does not explicitly direct that they are entitled to safe water. A United Nations resolution passed in July this year is about to change that. Shripad Dharmadhikary reports. In March 1996, the Government of Maharashtra issued a circular directing that slums which had come into existence after 1 January 1995 should not be supplied with water. Readmore Going upstream on the Energy Road How does one go about saving energy during construction or in the lifetime of a building when we live in it? A lot of this has to do with your being sensitized to this concept of 'embodied energy', writes Chandrashekar Hariharan. Buildings are not buildings but energy forms. So what can you do about bringing sanity to such energy use when you build? Readmore GREEN PAGES The best-selling green books of the decade The best-selling environmental authors in the UK over the last decade are James Lovelock, Al Gore and Christopher Booker, plus in top spot the Eden project's Tim Smit Tim Smit's account of the Eden Project was the best-selling environment book of the decade, according to Nielsen BookScan. Photograph: Eden Project Readmore A RIVER'S COURSE : Where does the Yamuna flow? New Delhi is gradually inching back to itself after a period of succumbing to national pride. The city has exhaled the razzmatazz around the organising of the 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG). Buses are back on the roads, people back to work and Shera, the Games mascot, now lies unmasked in godowns. Readmore GREEN VIEW GREEN REEL OUR INITIATIVES   © Copyright 2010, Lakshya Foundation. Newsletter Management by The Old Mans Furnace   ...
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