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China slates environment ministry after graft probe
2015-02-10 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's main anti-graft body reprimanded the environment ministry on Tuesday for a series of problems, including interference by ministry officials and their relatives in environmental impact assessments. Environmental degradation is one of China's most serious issues and a very sensitive one too, with thousands of protests every year sparked by concern about pollution, particularly from factories. Polluting plants like chemical factories and oil refineries are supposed to undergo strict environmental...
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Pakistans new climate change ministry merely cosmetic
2015-02-06 05:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dawn: Pakistan has elevated the climate change division to a ministry but opinion is divided on whether it will translate into effective policy making or remain a merely cosmetic initiative. The Pakistan governments decision to upgrade its climate change division to the status of a ministry has experts divided down the middle with some welcoming it and others sceptical on whether it will prove to be effective in formulating policy. The federal government upped the status of the division to a ministry...
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Launch of Commercial Diving Training Programme Accredited Under Ministry Of Manpower (MOM) Singapore ATP Scheme
2015-02-05 12:30:00| Offshore Technology
KBA Training Centre is the first accredited training provider for inland / inshore commercial diving training that complies with the National Diving Standards in Singapore.
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China met 2014 pollution control targets: ministry
2015-01-15 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China has met its 2014 targets for air and water pollution control, the official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The environmental protection minister, Zhou Shengxian, told an annual government meeting that authorities last year banned 7 million high-emission vehicles from the road, shut down 50,000 coal-fired furnaces, installed denitrification and desulfurisation equipment in power plants and factories, and added new sewage treatment plants, Xinhua said. Zhou said the annual targets...
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Climate change skeptic takes reins of Brazil's science ministry
2015-01-10 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: The appointment of a reputed climate change denier as the head of Brazils science ministry has some scientists worried about the countrys environmental future. Others are withholding judgment, at least until the new minister, Aldo Rebelo, appoints the team of scientists and policymakers who will work with him for the next 4 years. Rebelo, a hard-line communist, labeled climate change an environmental scam in a 2010 open letter to environmentalist Marcio Santilli, according to Bloomberg View....
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