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Climate risk: UN says business response needs more urgency
2013-05-20 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Businesses are failing to protect their overseas supply chains despite being increasingly exposed to the risk of natural disasters, the UN will warn today. A new report by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and consultancy giant PwC says that while there is a growing awareness of the threat floods, drought and storms can pose to business operations, companies rarely share expertise on how to cope with extreme weather threats with each other or the public sector. Economic...
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Response to EC Package on Healthier Animals, Plants for Safer Food Chain
2013-05-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - At a high-level conference organized with the Irish Presidency, Copa-Cogeca and other key stakeholders presented detailed views on the EU Commission package designed to strengthen animal and plant health, seeds and safety measures in Europe.
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Ahead of June climate change talks, UN body urges coordinated response to CO2 danger zone
2013-05-14 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
UN News: In the face of "clear and present danger," the United Nations climate change body is warning that a stepped-up coordinated response is needed to fend off the impacts of climate change after the world`s carbon-dioxide concentrations surpassed their highest level in 4 million years. "The world must wake up and take note of what this means for human security, human welfare and economic development," said the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana...
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Nigeria: Civil Society Groups Seek Firm Response to Climate Change
2013-05-14 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vanguard: Nigerian civil society groups under the aegis of Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, PACJA, has underlined the urgency and importance of environmental sustainability insisting that the post 2015 framework must firmly entrench responses to climate change. The group has therefore called on negotiators to break the jinx and bolster levels of ambition in the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol. Frontline environmentalist, Prof. David Okali said without rigorous enforcement, the greenhouse gas GHG...
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Immune Response to PRRSV Depends on Strain
2013-05-10 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
SPAIN - Researchers of CReSA have demonstrated that inoculation with different porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) strains result in different virological and immunological outcomes and in different degrees of homologous and heterologous protection.
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