Incat Crowther and Marine Engineering Consultants (MEC) have started work on the construction of a 24m long-range catamaran patrol vessel that will work to protect the Great Barrier Reef, Incat Crowther said Wednesday. The Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA), where the vessel will be operating,
Read more →As part of its global corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts, multi-awarded Korean carrier Asiana Airlines has initiated its solar street lighting project for Unesco World Heritage Sites in Vietnam. Asiana embarked on the project in cooperation with the Korean National Commission for UNESCO and installed 40 solar
Read more →Wave energy generator project in Punta Righini. ENEL Green Power, a world leader in renewable energy generation, and 40South Energy, a group of highly innovative companies operating in the field of marine energy at the international level, have developed and commissioned a first R115 generator, with a nominal
Read more →The first ever Northern Devon Sustainable Energy Fair is being held this Sunday and Monday (June 16/17) to help celebrate 10 years of the North Devon Biosphere Reserve. The two day trade fair will be held at Bideford Pannier Market, offering an informative networking opportunity for business
Read more →The International Coordinating Council of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), which met in Paris from 27 to 30 May, has added 12 sites to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The additions bring the total number of biosphere reserves to 621 in 117 countries. Biosphere
Read more →At the Rio+20 Summit the world leaders agreed on the outcome document “The Future We Want”, which created the global development agenda for the next twenty years. Organized one year after the Rio+20 Summit, the third Vienna Energy Forum (VEF 2013) focuses on the energy dimension captured
Read more →Costa Rica Electricity Institute (ICE) Executive President President Teofilo de la Torre said ICE will resubmit a proposal to segregate 1,000 hectares of Rincón de la Vieja National Park, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, to reduce the area of exploration and to implement an “eco-design” to
Read more →As part of the celebration this year of the 20th anniversary of the declaration of Minorca Biosphere Reserve, and under the recent designation as headquarters of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves islands and coastal areas, Minorca Island Council organizes its 1st Congress of Renewable Energy and
Read more →Suski district - Babia Gora biosphere reserve Since December 2012, the regional hospital of the Suski district has been receiving its hot water thanks to solar energy. In fact, 123 solar panels have been installed on the roof of the hospital. In addition, by summer 2013, an additional
Read more →The new airport is on the island of Baltra and required an investment of US$24 million. The project, which was developed by specialists from England and Argentina, centers on an environmentally friendly design for the terminal, according to Ezequiel Barrenechea, the president of Galapagos Ecological Airport. Each
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