Nanotech

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Law Library of Congress published a November 2023 report entitled Selected Issues in Biotechnology Regulation: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, England, European Union, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan that provides an overview of the main statutes and policies governing selected (..)

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Circle of Blue

JULY 13, 2022

A small town in Belgium struggles to rebuild over a year after devastating floods. Over a year after flooding devastated parts of southern and eastern Belgium, the town of Limbourg is struggling to recover. Monsoon rains in Pakistan flood entire communities and claim more than 100 lives. We’ve got to keep fighting. On the Radar.

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New Scientist

APRIL 25, 2022

Researchers asked 511 people aged 70 or over who lived in Belgium how sexually active they had been in the past year

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2021

Germany and Belgium were last week hit by a devastating extreme weather event killing over 200 people when three month’s worth of rainfall fell in just 24 hours. Flooding in Kordel, Germany. Photo credit: Chz – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. A trail of devastation.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. Last year, Denmark and Belgium were the first parties to the LP to adopt a bilateral agreement on CO 2 export.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 19, 2022

Researchers from Ghent University in Belgium counted dogs at four nature reserves near the city center. A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2022

Belgium academics have unveiled a new environmental labelling system that enables easy recognition of the degree of environmental sustainability of food and beverages at point of sale. Read the full story at Food Navigator. Read more →

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Inhabitant

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Belgium's Paul-Henri SPAAK building that serves the European Parliament will get a refresh by a design collective called EUROPARC to promote the values of democracy and circular construction.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Netherlands , Germany and recently Belgium ), to clarify their climate plans (e.g. Out of the successful cases to date, judgments issued in the Netherlands , Germany and in Belgium have required, or caused, the relevant government to increase the ambition of their emissions reduction targets.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), Washington, recently announced updates to its APR Design Guide for Plastic Recyclability to align with RecyClass, a Belgium-based nonprofit initiative focused on advancing plastics circularity. Read the full story at Recycling Today.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Belgian government signs nuclear extension deal with France’s Engie Euractiv PaulaR Thu, 10/05/2023 - 19:48 Friday, June 30, 2023 Read more Anne-Sophie Gayet Belgium has agreed with operator Engie to extend the use of the country’s nuclear reactors by 10 years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted Belgium’s governing coalition to rethink plans (..)

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Apple today announced that it has joined Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems (SSTS), a new research program launched by Belgium-based R&D organization Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (Imec), to reduce the environmental impact of “choices made at chip technology’s definition phase.”

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 17, 2023

Chambers Europe covers 53 jurisdictions across Europe, providing in-depth analysis on top-tier law firms and attorneys in the region.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Gavala was recognized in the "Competition and Antitrust" category and in the Belgium jurisdiction. The awards recognize attorneys under 40 for their professional accomplishments, advocacy and influence during the preceding year within their practice area.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PRACTICE AREAS Arbitration (International)–Global Market Leaders; Latin America - International Counsel Bankruptcy/Restructuring: Highly Regarded–USA Capital Markets–Latin America - International Counsel Capital Markets: Securitisation: ABS–USA Commercial and Corporate Litigation–United Kingdom Competition/Antitrust– (..)

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Physics World

MAY 19, 2022

PhotonDelta, which consists of 26 companies, 11 technology partners and 12 R&D partners, specializes in two major PIC production platforms – indium phosphide and silicon nitride – and is already collaborating with the Belgium institute Imec to build a pilot line for silicon photonics.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Waste from the city of Ghent, Belgium, is being turned into the building blocks of a major cultural institution. Read the full story at Fast Company.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2024

Karla Baise from Odell Brewery, Jeff Biegert from New Belgium Brewery, and Tony Massaro from the Business of Water Stewardship. “It Defend Our Future ambassador Lizzy Feinberg hosted a discussion panel with four breweries: Charlie Hoxmeier from Gilded Goat Co.,

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Competition/European Law–Belgium. Niels Ersbøll –Competition: EU (Belgium). Axel Gutermuth –Competition/European Law (Belgium); Competition: EU (Belgium). Luc Gyselen –Competition: EU (Belgium). Capital Markets: Securitisation–USA. Competition/Antitrust–Global-wide; USA.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2024

As previously reported on this blog , there were important developments in Europe last year, with the unprecedented shipping of carbon dioxide from Belgium for sequestration under the Danish North Sea; and, more recently, with the bilateral agreement signed between France and Denmark enabling carbon dioxide sequestration in the latter as well as (..)

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A Greener Life

MARCH 30, 2023

Denmark recently made headlines when it became the first country in the world to develop a cross-border CO2 storage site with CO2 imported from Belgium injected into a depleted North Sea oil field in Denmark. The policy would have an added obligation for fossil fuel companies to contribute to that target.

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Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Closer to home, in Belgium , the largest energy storage facility in Europe has begun operating. In Western Australia, an enormous 1-GW/4-GWh battery will be installed over 31 acres (12.5 ha) to stabilize the grid and make the most of the solar capacity installed there. All of this is exciting and should be accelerated.

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Water Research & Technology

MAY 14, 2021

Guest Edited by Branko Kerkez (University of Michigan, USA), Kris Villez (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) and Eveline Volcke (Ghent University, Belgium). Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology seeks your high-impact research for our upcoming Themed Issue on Data-intensive water systems management and Operation.

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Acoel

JULY 16, 2021

South Africa, Belgium, China, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Kenya. There also were three plenary sessions, including a keynote address by Professor Michael Faure, a top environmental law scholar from Belgium. There were 10 or more presenters from South Africa, Finland, China, India, New Zealand, Belgium, Italy, and Canada.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Currently, an estimated 100 US nuclear gravity bombs are hosted in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey. The United States first deployed its nuclear weapons in allied countries during the 1950s. This practice, referred to as ‘nuclear sharing,’ continues to this day.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Despite committing to end this support in 2021, the Government of Canada has made no progress, other than a far off promise to develop a plan a year from now. Background Information: Other signatories include the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Spain, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria and France.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Researchers in Belgium have unveiled the design for a fabric that could keep a person warm when worn one way, while cooling them down if worn inside out.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The below practices were ranked by Chambers Europe: Competition: EU—Belgium. Chambers Europe covers 53 jurisdictions across Europe, providing in-depth analysis on top-tier law firms and attorneys in the region. Life Sciences—Europe-wide. Simon Firth—Investment Funds: Hedge Funds.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 31, 2021

What’s Up With Water – August 30, 2021 – This week’s episode covers plans to build seawater desalination plants in Egypt, a potential storage site for nuclear waste near Lake Huron in Canada, and new research that found that climate change is behind the intensity of deadly storms that hit Germany and Belgium last month.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

What’s Up With Water – August 30, 2021 – This week’s episode covers plans to build seawater desalination plants in Egypt, a potential storage site for nuclear waste near Lake Huron in Canada, and new research that found that climate change is behind the intensity of deadly storms that hit Germany and Belgium last month.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Through infrared observations of old binary pairs, researchers led by Jacques Kluska at KU Leuven in Belgium discovered 10 cases in which giant planets have likely carved out empty cavities in protoplanetary discs. If more evidence is found for such systems, it could result in a rethink of current ideas about how planets form.

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ESA

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Current NZGI members include Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

At the national level, courts have broadened the scope of the responsibility of states for climate mitigation in countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, Australia, and Mexico. Similarly, a court in Belgium deemed current government climate measures insufficient. See an analysis of the decision here. In VZW Klimaatzaak v.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 16, 2021

In Germany, 42 people have been declared dead and dozens were missing on Thursday, while two men in Belgium were found dead and a 15-year-old girl was missing after being swept away by a swollen river. Public transportation on major railroads and rivers was also disrupted, and over one thousand homes have been evacuated.

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Physics World

MAY 18, 2021

The work was done by researchers in UK and Belgium, who have also developed a new set of guidelines for designing reusable, tailorable, and highly efficient energy absorbers. Materials that are good at absorbing energy during mechanical impacts have a wide range of applications from military body armour to dampening industrial vibration.

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JULY 3, 2023

The Commission made its determination after examining five complaints from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

Just Transition: A Report for the OECD, Just Transition Centre, ITUC, Brussels, Belgium, 1-2. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 41, 321-340. Foreword: The Imperative of a Just Transition. Catton Jr, W. R., & Dunlap, R. Environmental sociology: A new paradigm. The american sociologist, 41-49.

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