2011-09-29 16:25 GlobalFOCUS Huang Ming will be the first ever Chinese recipient of Right Livelihood Honorary Award. Ming is often referred to as a pioneer within China’s clean energy industry and his company Himin is the world's largest producer of solar thermal collectors. Ming is also an architect of the current Chinese Law on Renewable Energy. The Right Livelihood Award is widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”.
2011-07-27 12:11 Polarforskningssekretariatet Polarforskningssekretariatet är värd för mötet med representanter för 28 länders Antarktisprogram - ett hundratal deltagare kommer att diskutera diskutera strategiska riktlinjer, logistik och framtida projekt i Antarktis.
2011-03-17 13:48 Polarforskningssekretariatet Den 12 maj tar Sverige över ordförandeklubban i Arktiska rådet, i närvaro av utrikesminister Carl Bildt. Medias representanter kan registrera närvaro på mötet senast den 21 mars.
2011-01-07 08:38 Uppsala universitet Scientists has uncovered an important part of the global greenhouse gas budget. This new analysis indicates that greenhouse gas uptake by continents is less optimistic than previously thought. The balance between carbon uptake by continents and their emissions of greenhouse gases is important because it indicates how much continents can compensate for human emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere.
2010-12-11 14:52 Global Water Partnership The world’s economic growth and social welfare depend on the sustainable management of the world’s water resources in the context of climate change. Climate change is primarily about water, but what are the negotiators doing about it?
2010-12-09 11:41 Polarforskningssekretariatet Svenska och amerikanska forskare kommer under december månad att arbeta tillsammans i Södra ishavet i ett samarbete med två isgående fartyg. Den svensk-amerikanska expeditionen är tvärvetenskaplig och omfattar såväl långlivade föroreningar och växthusgaser som epidemiologi och mikrobiell ekologi samt havsisens fysik och oceanografi.
2010-12-01 09:00 Polarforskningssekretariatet Idag den 1 december 2010 övertar Polarforskningssekretariatet huvudmannaskapet för Abisko naturvetenskapliga station.
2010-11-30 13:40 Global Water Partnership The Global Water Partnership (GWP) and the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) have unveiled a joint programme to support climate change adaptation in Africa.
2010-10-21 14:35 Solvatten AB Solvatten AB will, in co-operation with the Institute of Environment and Water, a Kenyan-based charitable trust, provide an innovative household water treatment technology in Africa’s largest slum, Kibera, Nariobi, Kenya. The Nordic Climate Facility (NCF) is funding the project.
2010-09-09 12:18 Global Water Partnership Sustainable development requires multi-stakeholder partnerships. That is the message of a new report on water security in Africa published by the Global Water Partnership.