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UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE IN OURZAZATE PROVINCE MOROCCO Architecturally, the living quarters form a compact grouping, closed and susp…
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE IN OURZAZATE PROVINCE MOROCCO Architecturally, the living quarters form a compact grouping, closed and susp…
The UNECE region leads the world in producing, value-adding and transforming its natural resources for socio-economic consumption. However, these resources are often finite. Their production and consumption require enormous energy and other resource inputs, and lead to environmental degradation and increased vulnerability to climate change – effects that are compounded on the region’s increasingly urbanized populations. Transitioning to a more circular economy and sustainable use of natural resources is crucial for achieving the SDGs.
On the occasion of the Conference on Food and the Environment – AGRIBALYSE, ADEME and INRAE present the latest version of the database AGRIBALYSE, which sheds light on the environmental impact of a food product, from agricultural production to purchase or preparation by the consumer.
Pondering the pandemic with 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients… Amid the return of in-person interactions at Caltech’s 2021 Reunion Weekend, one event brought together three of the four 2021 winners of the Distinguished Alumni Award: NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, PhD (MS ’93, PhD ’97); Barbara Burger, PhD (PhD ’87), president of technology ventures and vice president of innovation at Chevron; and Laurie Leshin, PhD (MS ’89, PhD ’95), president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (DAA winner Charles Elachi, PhD [MS ’69, PhD ’71], Caltech professor emeritus of electrical engineering and planetary science and former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was unable to attend.)
Coca-Cola has said it will not ditch single-use plastic bottles as its head of sustainability insisted consumers still prefer to use them. Bea Perez told the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos that customers like the bottles because they reseal and are lightweight. Coca-Cola, one of the world’s…
Read more about Paper to capture 25% of the Rs 80,000 cr single-use plastics market by 2025 on Business Standard.India generated 26,000 tonnes per day of plastic waste in 2017-18, of that only 60 per cent was recycled and the rest ended up as litter on roads, in landfills or streams…
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