The management systems community
23rd Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Cyclus Satoshi Yanagisawa The issues of sustainability has become widely recognized and an area of general interest. However, we have not yet got to grips with this ethos of sustainability to the degree we would like to think we have. Certainly, there has been a very ambitious socio-restructuring movement which contains lots of potential but [...]
22nd Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Horses and Humans Together Tatsunori Kikuchi In Japan, the food infrastructure system- the most important element for survival- is weakening because of gap between the demand and supply. This gap is caused by several reasons including reduction in the land used for cultivation, and decreased food productivity stemming from a fall in the working-age population [...]
5th Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Forty young eco-entrepreneurs triumphed over a field of 888 applicants in the E-idea competition held in seven Asia-Pacific countries to win up to £12,000 in seed funding as well as mentoring and international training opportunities for projects they have devised to address some of the biggest environmental challenges facing communities in the region. Read the [...]
5th Sep 2011 by JChowdhury
Introducing the E-Idea Competition in Vietnam
31st Aug 2011 by JChowdhury
Six winners of E-Idea Vietnam announced
19th May 2011 by JChowdhury
LRQA and the British Council have announced the launch of E-Idea, an innovative competition that funds, supports and mentors young eco-entrepreneurs, aged 18-35, from seven Asia-Pacific countries. Read the LRQA Business Assurance/British Council press release for more information.
12th May 2011 by Madlen King
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yesterday released their Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. A summary for policymakers is available here. The report concludes that 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by the middle of this century if it is backed by the [...]
5th May 2011 by Madlen King
The UNFCCC has recently produced and issued 12 audio files on the subject of the joint implementation (JI) mechanism. The audio files were prepared to raise the profile of JI and to help explain the mechanism in layman’s terms. The audio files include subjects such as: which countries can participate in JI, what methodologies can [...]
28th Mar 2011 by Madlen King
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released its annual “Statement on the Status of the Global Climate,”
24th Mar 2011 by Madlen King
The UNFCCC secretariat has produced five radio stories to make the CDM understandable and accessible to a broad audience
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