... General Plan – the Key to your city / Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives www.cityplan.in.ua/en ...
... UK leads Europe for solar growth despite drop in installations after government cut subsidies A worker maintains photo-voltaic panels at Xinyi station in Songxi, China. Photograph: Feature China/Barcroft Images The amount of solar power added worldwide soared by some 50% last year because of a sun rush in the US and China, new figures show.... ...
... Britain’s wildlife crime head says urgent security checks are needed to protect 111 rhinos in UK after attack near Paris Police are visiting every zoo and wildlife park in the UK that houses rhinos to offer security advice after poachers shot dead a white rhinoceros and sawed off its horn at a zoo in France.... ...
... On 30 June, after almost 12 years – seven more than originally planned – the Climate Institute will close its doors. As its CEO for the last decade, this has given me pause to reflect on this rollercoaster ride through the bumpy minefield that is Australian climate and energy politics. Where have we been as... ...
... Case: Access to reporting on water use according to the form 2-tp (water management). Region: Ukraine, Mykolayiv region. Case objective: To ensure access to state reporting on water use according to the form 2- tp (water management). Parties to a case: Plaintiff – ICO «Environment-People-Law», Defendant – Mykolayiv Regional Department of Water Resources. Core of the problem: The Department... ...
... On 10-11 November, Kyiv hosted International practical conference “Road map for Ukraine in the sphere of waste management and electronic governance” organized by the Embassy of Sweden to Ukraine and International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” that gathered stakeholders representing the state, waste processing business in Ukraine and European countries, the public, experts in the sphere of... ...
... We got to know that on January 19, 2017, Lviv City Council (LCC) held an extraordinary scandalous session and adopted the resolution “On the critical situation in the administrative territory of Lviv City Council due to the inability to remove solid waste”. Even despite the truly critical situation with the removal of solid domestic waste... ...
... In February 2017, two committees of multilateral environmental agreements reviewed the progress in Ukraine’s implementation of its international obligations directly related to the adoption of the law on environmental impact assessment. On 20-22 February 2017, there was held the meeting of the Implementation Committee of the Espoo Convention (the Convention on the Assessment of the... ...
... The outer layer of modern Earth is a collection of interlocking rigid plates, as seen in this illustration. These plates grind together, sliding past or dipping beneath one another, giving rise to earthquakes and volcanoes. But new research suggests that plate tectonics did not begin until much later in Earth’s history. Credit: USGS Today’s Earth... ...
... Humans have dramatically increased the spatial and seasonal extent of wildfires across the U.S. in recent decades and ignited more than 840,000 blazes in the spring, fall and winter seasons over a 21-year period, according to new research. After analyzing two decades’ worth of U.S. government agency wildfire records spanning 1992-2012, the researchers found that... ...