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Can Organic Farming Feed the World?
2016-07-01 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Forty five years have passed since Earl Butz, then U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, asserted, Before we go back to organic agriculture in this country, somebody must decide which 50 million Americans we are going to let starve or go hungry. Time has proven Butz very wrong. The weight of four decades worth of scientific evidence tells us that organic farming is critical to feeding ourselves, now and into the future, as a new report by Friends of the Earth explains. Not only can organic farming...
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World Bank commits USD 1 bn for solar projects in India
2016-07-01 04:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Of India: Multi-lateral lender World Bank today announced funding support of USD 1 billion for expansion of solar power capacity in India. It also signed an agreement with the International Solar Alliance (ISA), consisting of 121 countries led by India, to collaborate on increasing solar energy use across the world, with a goal of mobilising USD 1 trillion in investments by 2030. The pact, which was signed in the presence of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Power Minister Piyush Goyal and visiting World...
The World Nonwovens Industry: Part 2 - 20 Medium Sized Producers - June 2016
2016-07-01 02:00:00| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com
This report is the second in a series of three in which the world's top 40 nonwovens producers are profiled.
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World Bank to back India's solar power initiative
2016-06-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, right, shakes hand with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, June 30, 2016. The World Bank Group Thursday signed an agreement with the International Solar Alliance, consisting of 121 countries led by India, to collaborate on increasing solar energy use around the world, with the goal of mobilizing $1 trillion in investment by 2030. The World Bank signed an agreement on Thursday with the Indian-led International Solar Alliance to...
India to get over $1 billion from World Bank for Modi's solar goals
2016-06-30 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The World Bank said on Thursday it would lend India more than $1 billion for its huge solar energy programme, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought climate change funds from its visiting head. Modi is banking on India's 300 days a year of sunshine to generate power and help fight climate change rather than committing to emission cuts like China. The World Bank loan is the global lender's biggest solar aid for any country and comes as India has set a goal of raising its solar capacity nearly...
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