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New phase of globalization could undermine efforts to reduce CO2 emissions

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In turn, the growth of CO 2 emissions embodied in Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, while the emissions embodied in exports, such as textiles, from less-developed regions like Vietnam and Bangladesh have surged. trillion) in 2014.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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These activities will become a part of initiatives aimed at meeting the goals set out in the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, which was announced in October, 2015. To introduce biodiversity teaching materials in Bangladesh's elementary curriculum with the intention to raise public awareness. Grant Category. Project Description.

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GSMA study indicates Bangkok could gain US$1B per year in benefits through ITS; reduced travel time, CO2 emissions and accidents

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This report is the second in a series; the first report—Building digital societies in Asia—published in June 2015, analyzes key enablers to realizing the socioeconomic benefits of digitization, focusing on the proposed plans of six key countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand.

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HEI: 95%+ of world’s population live in areas of unhealthy air

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In India in 2015, however, the leading source contribution by far was residential biomass burning, followed by anthropogenic dust, powerplant coal, industrial coal and open burning. In China in 2013, the leading source contribution to deaths attributable to PM 2.5 was industrial coal; transportation followed as a close second.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He was the 2014–2015 chair of the IEEE Seoul Section. In 1969 he was tasked with helping to build transmission lines in Bangladesh that connected the country’s eastern and western electrical grids. He and his family lived there for two years.

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