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New life forms engineering – a scientist’s dream and a sci-fi fantasy since the genome structure discovery. Imagine, you would not only be reading the extensively long genome code, you would be able to WRITE IT. Such engineering would enable us to create organism structures that have never existed before,
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Bonn, Nov 12 – Global industry is set to deliver much of the emissions reductions needed to achieve the Paris Agreement goal but closer national and international policy and implementation strategy partnerships together with governments will help business take further, faster action. This was one of the key messages today from business
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Speech by Nick Nuttall at Seoul Climate and Energy Summit Speaking at the Seoul Climate and Energy Summit in the Repubic of Korea, the spokesperson of UN Climate Change, Nick Nuttall, praised the climate action efforts of Korea. He said that the country is looking at quadrupling its renewable energy production,
Read MoreRenewable power generation costs are already lower on average worldwide than those of fossil fuels and clean energy plants will become even more cost-competitive by 2020, a new sensitivity analysis published by the Carbon Tracker Initiative finds. “Policy-makers and investors really need to question out dated assumptions on technology costs that
Read MoreWells Fargo & Co., Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and VF Corporation - owner of many apparel and footwear brands including The North Face, Timberland, and Wrangler - are among a group of world-leading businesses from diverse sectors of the economy that today, during Climate Week NYC 2016, joined RE100 with commitments to 100% renewable power. The eight new
Read MoreIn its scale and urgency, the task to limit global warming to well below 2°C is without precedent. It requires universal focus and massive resource mobilisation, which will demand action and interaction from everyone. By Patricia Espinosa Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) There is only one possible future
Read MoreThe oil and gas industry is in a transitional phase. The sector is under increasing pressure in the US and abroad to reduce its carbon footprint. It’s also facing significant cost pressure as low energy prices persist. Shell’s chief energy adviser Wim Thomas recently said the global oil oversupply, which has
Read MoreThe Government of Morocco, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, will present the solutions-focused conference during COP22 in November 2016. Washington DC, 5 May 2016 – Cities, business and government will come together to scale up solutions for climate
Read MoreLONDON: The second Business & Climate Summit - convened by a network of partners that represent over 6 million businesses worldwide – today called for swifter government action on climate and the ratification of the Paris Agreement without further delay. UK Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, Amber Rudd
Read MoreLeaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico on Wednesday added new details to their new clean energy effort, a push to generate 50 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025. The centerpiece of the plan is a push to deploy more renewable energy, nuclear power, advanced fossil fuel
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