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Daily Monitor Thursday April 01 2021 The issue: Climate change  Our view: Climate change is now among the growing causes of internal displacement as people move from areas where environmental resources have been depleted or where the climatic conditions are too harsh, increasing pressure onurban centres and other areas in search of a livelihood. Advertisement According to the recently released 2018-2019 Nema report titled the National State of the Environment Report, the country’s wetland co...

Aucklands State of the Environment: Queen Street air quality worsening, concerns over water quality and muddy estuaries 24 Feb, 2021 04:00 AM 5 minutes to read While air quality across Auckland is generally improving, on Queen St it continues to breach targets. Photo / Sylvie Whinray While air quality across Auckland is generally improving, on Queen St it continues to breach targets. Photo / Sylvie Whinray Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz Air quality on Aucklands ...

Development •2010 Draft Integrated Town Planning Scheme •Strategic Integrated Transport Plan Framework •Johannesburg Development Agency: Progress in the City 2004 [Acrobat format: 2.2Mb] •Soweto Retail Strategy •Land Release Policy [Adobe Acrobat format] •Land Release for Outdoor Advertising Policy [Adobe Acrobat format] •Johannesburgs Tourism Strategy •Integrated Waste Management Policy [PDF, 439kb] •Integrated Waste Managem...

Focused on the theme of ‘The Time is Now’, this national forum brings together local and international experts for a pertinent discussion on the urg

Newsbook President George Vella opens Malta Sustainability Forum 2021 Focused on the theme of ‘The Time is Now’, this national forum brings together local and international experts for a pertinent discussion on the urgency of sustainability. It runs online until Friday 29 January. Malta Sustainability Forum 2021 The Malta Sustainability Forum, organised by APS Bank, launched this morning with the first day of a five-day event hosting over 80 local and foreign experts in the field of sustain...

January 13, 2021 12:23 pm The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a competition to challenge students to investigate the life-cycle of their everyday ‘stuff’. The competition, ‘The Story of Your Stuff’, asks students to address climate issues with creativity and also awards a special prize for Irish language entries. Students are encouraged to consider answers to questions of environmental sustainability raised during the pandemic. The competition is aimed at secondary sc...

Anyone who has met Doug Britt of Reston knows he has a wealth of information on the creepy, crawly, slimy, majestic, utterly beautiful creatures, insects, and flora that call Reston home. Britt, and the RASER (Reston Association State of the Environment Report) 2020 team, have traipsed nearly every area of Restons 17.4 square miles in its humid subtropical climate. Britt knows the fastest vertebrate on the planet Earth lives, where else but in Reston, actually Reston Town Center, and it hunts R...

Morning Report: Whats Behind San Diegos Wildfire Luck A car stands amid rubble after the Lilac Fire destroyed a Fallbrook home. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Devastating wildfires, each one seemingly bigger and more destructive than the last, have battered California for the last several years. But San Diego, for the most part, has largely escaped the conflagrations seen in other parts of California. Is San Diego just lucky, or is it doing something right? Modernizing equipment and streamlining ope...

December 18, 2020 at 9:45am The Reston Association’s (RA) Board of Directors listened to a presentation about its surrounding environment as part of the  Doug Britt, a Virginia Master Naturalist and chair of RA’s Environmental Advisory Committee, presented the RASER study update to the board and RA’s members. The update has 18 authors and coauthors that include members of RA’s environmental advisory committee and outside individuals. The update conforms to RASER’s five objectives lis...

Posted December 15th, 2020 for IBM IBM Joins Alliance as Supporting Member; Work Includes Collaborating to Develop Data Platform to Help Stakeholders Across the Plastic Value Chain ARMONK, N.Y. , Dec. 15, 2020 / / --  I BM (NYSE: IBM ) and The Alliance to End Plastic Waste ("Alliance") today announced IBM will join the Alliance as a Supporting Member. The Alliance is a non-profit organization that brings together a community of members from across the plastics value chai...