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Delhi sustainable development summit highlights need for urgent action
2013-02-04 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global development summits are rare and usually lead nowhere. But coming up on the inside track as a talkshop to rival Rio and the annual Davos meeting is the annual Delhi sustainable development summit (DSDS), which packs in prime ministers, Nobel prize winners and development thinkers, mostly from Asia. Rajendra Pachauri has been called the UN's "world climate chief" because he chairs the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But his background is in grassroots...
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Compliance-prompting pharma packs:More sustainable?
2013-02-02 20:38:09| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Last summer Walmart announced that it would begin using compliance-prompting packaging for consumer medications at 3,600 of its in-store pharmacies nationwide.
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Compliance-prompting pharma packs:More sustainable?
2013-02-01 23:33:40| Paper - Topix.net
Last summer Walmart announced that it would begin using compliance-prompting packaging for consumer medications at 3,600 of its in-store pharmacies nationwide.
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Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2013 Explores Global Climate Change Challenges
2013-02-01 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Seychelles is flooding, Mali is parched, Kiribati is eroding and the one bright spot would seem to be the fact that the United States president finally uttered the words "climate change." Nations on the front lines of climate change expressed hesitant optimism for the U.S., as delegates gathered for The Energy and Resources Institute's 13th annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, whose goal is to tackle resource efficiency challenges. Around the world, leaders pointed to the ways a changing...
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Unlocking Sustainable Transport Starts with Cities
2013-02-01 18:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: City leaders face incredible pressure to deliver sustainable transportation. Cities now account for more than half of the worlds population--by 2050, they will hold 75 percent of us. These people--increasingly from the middle class--will need ways to commute to work, travel, and carry out their livelihoods. At the same time, 1.27 million people die from traffic accidents every year--about half of these fatalities occur in cities. Cities also account for about 70 percent of global greenhouse gas...
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