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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 7.20.21

PA Environment Daily

Seeks Cooperation With China On Climate, But Not At Any Price -- Financial Times: U.S. Of Agriculture: Secretary To Tour Urban Gardens Building Resilient Communities -- Ag Progress Days: Exhibits Focus On Animal, Plant Diseases, Invasive Pests [Aug.

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Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Net Zero

Acoel

Car manufacturers in China offer a wide array of EVs at under $10,000, an option not yet available in the US. But that could run up a hefty price tag and needs to be designed carefully to target the worst vehicles to make it a cost effective program (see here for more analysis). billion in operation today).

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

This nonprofit has been at the center of conspiracy theories that a lab in Wuhan, China allowed the novel coronavirus to emerge. This bill allows fishermen to exchange lionfish tails for fishing tags for other species. The NDAA also includes a provision prohibiting DoD from providing funding to the EcoHealth Alliance.

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Setting the scene for a quantum marketplace: where quantum business is up to and how it might unfold

Physics World

Perhaps it’s not surprising that demand for the machine was not exactly clamorous, given its price tag of $10m. A fibre-optic “quantum internet” network has been constructed in China reaching from Shanghai to Beijing, and in 2020 a team led by Pan at UTSC broadcast quantum-encrypted data over a distance of 1000 km within China via satellite.

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

Law Columbia

The outcome of the ‘Global Pact’ could become a landmark instrument for the advent of the third generation of human rights in the form of a declaratory statement or legally binding treaty and could be tagged to a UNGA resolution. The ‘pact’ could resemble the high-sounding 1982 ‘charter’ for Nature.

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In the Gulf of Maine, Scientists Race to Save Seabirds Threatened by Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

Chick translocation and tools of social attraction have now been used in more than 850 projects in 36 countries, assisting nearly 140 species of seabirds as far away as Japan, China, and South Africa. “I She texted Lachance Linklater to rush over to help pull the puffin out of the box and put a GPS tag on the bird.

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High-energy physics: are the days of international collaboration coming to an end?

Physics World

Its advertised cost is in the order of $6bn, paid largely by the Chinese government, which can probably afford this price tag, given its strong economy and trade surpluses. But as Cheng asked with regard to China’s pervasive Internet surveillance: “Can the future of particle physics exist within the Great Firewall of China?”.

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