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Toyota launches Biodiversity & Sustainability Learning Center to complement Biotope project in Thailand

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Toyota has launched the Toyota Biodiversity and Sustainability Learning Center “Cheewa Panavet” at the Toyota Ban Pho Plant in Thailand. The following year, Toyota embarked on the Toyota Biotope Project—the first of its kind in Thailand—to create a habitat of living organisms, born out of manmade efforts, around the plant.

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Five Canadian and developing country teams awarded total of C$12.5M to study climate change adaptation

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The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) together with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) announced that five research teams have been awarded a total of C$12.5

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Study: countries seeking to cut CO2 emissions must get a handle on city-level emissions

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Countries seeking to meet Paris Agreement targets on CO 2 emissions must get a grip on the amount of pollution produced at city level, according to a new open-access study published in S cience Advances by an international team of researchers from Europe and China. Yuli Shan, Dabo Guan, Klaus Hubacek, Bo Zheng, Steven J.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Protection of the spoon-billed sandpiper, an endangered species throughout the Talay Park coastal area in Thailand, as well as the promotion of bird tourism. BirdLife International Tokyo. Conservation International Japan. Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University. Biodiversity Conservation.

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BMW targeting doubling energy density of battery cells by 2030, with current i3 as basis

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The BMW Group works together with worldwide partners throughout the value chain, ranging from scientific institutions and universities to established companies and start-ups. Today, the BMW Group already builds electrified vehicles at eleven plants around the world, and integrates them into the existing production system.

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IEEE Humanitarian Program Sees Record Growth

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HAC is also focused on building a sustainable development community within and beyond IEEE. International Telecommunication Union secretary-general. For the first time, IEEE members from China, Ethiopia, Hungary, Italy, Panama, and Thailand submitted proposals. It also provides training on how to go about doing that.

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Global biofuels production up 17% in 2010 to hit all-time high of 105 billion liters

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Vital Signs authors Sam Shrank, a Worldwatch MAP Sustainable Energy Fellow, and Farhad Farahmand, a Climate and Energy research intern, also explored how new mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and China have altered the biofuel industries in these countries. Sugarcane ethanol supplies 41.5% Virtually all of the 1.5

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