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Filiere animale et climat
Manger moins de viande pour soulager le climat Voici, le rapport: Filiere animale et climat – l´influence négative de l´EU: Filiere_animale_web.pdf La production de viande représente 18 % des émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Cela signifie que la filière animale est plus néfaste pour le climat que le seul secteur des transports…
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Dimas Promises Fewer Animal Experiments
The EU is going to strive to replace animal experimentation and testing with alternative methods. In the future it will be illegal to experiment on gorillas, orangutangs and other great apes, as well as on animals captured in the wild. This was promised by Environmental Commissioner Stavros Dimas this evening in a seminar entitled “Progress…
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Progress without pain – Alternatives to Animal Experiments
Wednesday next week I am organizing a mini-conference on alternatives to animal experiments. We call it ”Progress without Pain – Alternatives to Animal Experiments”. Especially interesting is the fact that four respected experts will come and talk on their research with alternative methods. Among others Johan Rönnelid, from Uppsala university will participate. Also great is that the Commissioner…
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The Ice Melt Accelerates
The Earth Policy Institute have some interesting documentation on ice melt in the Arctic, Greenland and elsewere. In the article ”Ice Melt Accelerates Around the World” they write: The most dramatic loss of ice in recent years has been the decline of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Between 1953 and 2006, the area…
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Die Linke progress in regional elections in Germany
My german colleagues in Die Linke have written an excellent analysis on the recent elections in Hesse and Lower Saxony in Germany. They write: DIE LINKE emerged successful from the regional elections on Sunday 27th January in the German Federal states of Hesse and Lower Saxony. After the state of Bremen, where the party in…
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IPCC Sharpens Its Warning on Greenland Melting
The first part of the fourth assessment report of the IPCC, the UN’s panel on climate change, was published in February. This report (known internally as AR4-WG1, Assessment Report 4 – Working Group 1) warned that sea levels could rise by 20-60 cm this century, and as much as seven meters in the very long…