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AHDB Pork Tackling the Tail-Biting Challenge
2016-03-14 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - The challenge of tail-biting is one with which the industry has been grappling for years with no solution found. Now, AHDB Pork, the RSPCA (RSPCA Assured) and the University of Helsinki have joined forces to produce and distribute a questionnaire aimed at tackling tail-biting.
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Tackling Big Data in a Railway Context
2016-03-07 18:15:00| Railway Technology
The railway sector produces a torrent of data each day, and there is an enormous potential waiting to be harnessed through automated data collection and analysis.
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Tackling Climate Change Through Profits
2016-02-16 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Last month in Davos, the World Economic Forum released the results of a survey of 750 experts on the "most significant long-term risks worldwide." This year the survey was unequivocal: failing to act on climate change is the number one global risk. Coming on the heels of global climate talks in Paris late last year, this warning underscores the importance of the ambitious agreement world leaders achieved at COP21 to keep global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less. The 2015 Paris Climate Conference...
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Momentum for insurance; No panacea for tackling climate risk
2016-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: David Bresch has headed the Sustainability & Political Risk Management Unit at Swiss Re in Zurich since 2008, and he has lectured on climate adaptation and risk insurance as an emerging tool to provide a kind of last line of defense for property owners from catastrophic climate damage. As nearly 200 nations headed into the Paris talks that concluded in December with the first truly global climate deal, leaders from Swiss Re and nearly 80 other companies including Toshiba Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and...
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When will China have a clear plan tackling Beijings smog?
2015-12-10 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In February, a Chinese documentary called Under the Dome was leaked online and threatened to shake up Chinas environmental status quo. Likened to An Inconvenient Truth, the film by journalist Chai Jing recounted the story of her daughters health complications, which were attributed to air pollution. Chai also got political, citing environmental research and calling for government leaders to take action. A viral video was born. Teachers showed the film in Chinese classrooms. Office workers watched...
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