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One hundred and seven years ago, the steel hull of the steamer Idlewild plunged into the Allegheny River at the James Rees yard on October 18, 1914.

County Hall in Ruthin. A CYCLIST found lying in the road alongside his electric bike had three times the drink-drive limit of alcohol, it was revealed at an inquest. Self-employed joiner Paul Mark Jones, 54, suffered “devastating” head injuries as he made his way home after spending the night in the Crown Inn in Pantymwyn, near Mold. The father-of-two was found by taxi driver Sean Toner in Bwlch-y-Ddeufryn Road, Gwernaffield, at about 11.30pm on November 21 last year. His passenger,...

Trading water scarcity for sustainability News Provided By Share This Article Water trading via a cap-and-trade model can be one way to use market signals to allocate resources, reduce scarcity, and enhance ecosystem sustainability. UNITED STATES, May 19, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The United Nations defines water scarcity as a lack of availability due to the physical shortage, such as drought, or the failure of institutions and infrastructure to ensure a regular water supply....

Is “Water Positive” the next “Net-Zero”? News Provided By Share This Article Water Positive initiatives, similar to Net-Zero, can have demonstrable positive impacts on the environment, climate, health, and society. UNITED STATES, May 5, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Is “Water Positive” the next “Net-Zero”? The concept of greenhouse gases, global warming, climate change, and the goal of carbon neutrality, or net-zero emissions, is now part of the ...

ICCA president predicts an exciting year ahead for the association in February message The president of the International Congress and Convention Association (   “Dear ICCA Friends and Colleagues, For all of us in the ICCA community, the past year has been an experience none of us expected and for which none of us could have planned. However, the resilience and determination we have observed across the global events industry gives us hope that this year, as our government...

February 2021 Alistair Turner IBTM World Trends Report, released during IBTM World Virtual, underlines the role that the meetings and events industry has to play in ‘building back better’ in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic. The industry has been given the opportunity to reset itself and re-imagine what its ‘new normal’ will look like, addressing major trends such as sustainability, technology, security and diversity as areas where the industry can use tragedy to change its tra...

12 January 2021 2020 was a challenging year for ICCA and for the industry but ICCA members expressed a strong wish for the association to continue its transformation and to lead and inspire innovative new business opportunities for members and the ICCA community, both now and in the future. ICCA President James Rees announced the launch of a ground-breaking business events industry initiative, ICCASkills, the ICCA certification programme. "Having identified the need to support the enhance...

ICCA draws 300 participants to hybrid Asia Pac Summit The 2nd ICCA Asia Pacific Chapter Summit (ICCA AP Summit), curated from Yokohama, Japan, 15-16 December, drew 300 participants both on-site and online, from 14 countries, including 40 speakers and 35 associations. The 2020 AP Summit’s highlight presentation, ‘Co-operation in Times of Crisis’ featured ICCA president, James Rees, and ICCA CEO, Senthil Gopinath, who shared on the Kaohsiung Protocol, a crowdsourced fram...

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