Half of All Food Produced Worldwide is Wasted
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 22, 2008 (ENS) – Tremendous quantities of food are wasted after production – discarded in processing, transport, supermarkets and kitchens – and this wasted food is also wasted water, finds a policy brief released Thursday at World Water Week in Stockholm [www.siwi.org]. The brief authored by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the [...]
Read More »Angry Food Riots Are the New Face of Hunger
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 9, 2008 (ENS) – Warning that spiralling food prices are leading to increased poverty and unrest, several senior United Nations officials are calling for urgent measures to tackle the global crisis, which is causing the most suffering among the world’s poor. The World Food Programme’s deputy executive director is warning [...]
Read More »Future Energy Summit: Abu Dhabi Pledges $15 Billion for Renewables
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, January 22, 2008 (ENS) – At the opening ceremony of the World Future Energy Summit here Monday, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi announced an initial investment of US$15 billion in projects targeting solar, wind and hydrogen power; carbon reduction and management; sustainable development; education; manufacturing; and research and development. [...]
Read More »Bush Previews Abu Dhabi’s Planned Carbon Neutral, Car Free City
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, January 14, 2008 (ENS) – President George W. Bush today saw a model of Masdar City – the world’s first zero carbon, zero waste, car free city. Plans call for the green, sustainable city to open by 2009 in the desert sands of this federation of Gulf states that have [...]
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