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S'pore lays out plan to address challenges of climate change
2016-07-11 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: CITIES have to take the lead in finding solutions to address challenges brought about by changing weather patterns, said President Tony Tan Keng Yam on Sunday, as he announced the release of Singapore's Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Among some new measures announced in the Climate Action Plan are a target to achieve improvements in energy efficiency in the manufacturing sector by 1-2 per cent a year from 2020 to 2030, and plans to upgrade critical...
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Communicating climate-smart agriculture, prospects, challenges
2016-07-10 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News Day: THE majority of farmers in Zimbabwe are small-scale based, poverty stricken and vulnerable to climate shocks, stresses and impacts. The small-scale farmers have no access to bank loans, crop insurance and other public interventions. This leaves them highly exposed, neglected and defenceless to climatic threats. The national input scheme, otherwise known as the Presidential Input Scheme, has its shortcomings and a few merits. As such, it is mirrored in political suspicions and controversy. The...
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2016 R&D Teams of the Year: Lessons in Overcoming Challenges
2016-07-06 16:07:11| Food Processing
Formulation challenges were overcome by the product development teams at Kraft Heinz, Nature's Path, and Tasty Bite.
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Cambodia compliance improves but challenges remain
2016-07-06 14:14:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Transparent reporting of garment factory compliance in Cambodia is contributing to better conditions for workers, a new study has found - although the top compliance issues remain ongoing.
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Five Years After Independence South Sudan Faces Myriad Challenges
2016-07-06 02:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: South Sudan, the world's newest country faces myriad problems five years after achieving independence, aid agencies warned this week. South Sudan which achieved independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, is on the brink of economic collapse, development organisation Oxfam warned Tuesday. South Sudan's economy relies heavily on oil, and it is one of many developing countries to have suffered from low oil prices in recent years. "Plummeting oil price and oil production all but grinding to a...
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