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Policy & Regulatory Pakistan plans to privatise 10 power distribution companies 29 Mar 2021 The Privatisation Commission (PC) of Pakistan plans to privatise 10 power distribution companies, including electricity supply companies of Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta, Sukkur and tribal areas. The PC expects the private sector to…

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Carta de la Tierra

  La Carta de la Tierra https://cartadelatierra.org/lea-la-carta-de-la-tierra/  La Carta de la Tierra es una declaración internacional de valores y principios fundamentales para construir una sociedad global justa, sostenible y pacífica en el siglo XXI. Formulada mediante un proceso de consulta global y respaldada por organizaciones que representan a millones de…

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Planeación espacial marina en el Golfo de México

¿Inercia o cambio transformador hacia el 2050? ¡La opción es nuestra! Antonio J. Díaz-de-León, La Jornada del Campo Núm. 162, 20 de marzo 2021   Planeación espacial marina en el Golfo de México¿Inercia o cambio transformacional hacia el 2050? ¡La opción es nuestra!  Dr. Antonio J. Díaz-de-LeónEx presidente del Instituto…

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Nature Sustainability

Volume 4 Issue 3, March 2021 Shaping sustainable cooling Cooling demand is expected to increase. A new framework of socio-economic, technological, environmental and geopolitical factors allows researchers to identify sustainable cooling solutions, which go beyond improving technology. See Khosla et al. Image: ballyscanlon / Photodisc / Getty. Cover design: Valentina…

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Policy & Regulatory Lebanon unveils its updated Nationally Determined Contribution 17 Mar 2021 Lebanon has updated its 2015 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The country intends to unconditionally increase its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target relative to the Business-as-Usual (BAU) scenario from 15% to 20%, and conditionally increase its GHG emission reduction…

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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Volume 2 Issue 3, March 2021 The urban heat island effect poses increasing morbidity and mortality challenges in a warming world. This Review discusses how urban vegetation — specifically, green parks, green roofs and green walls — can be used as a strategy to mitigate heat. See Wong et al….

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Policy & Regulatory Canada unveils a new federal greenhouse gas offset system 9 Mar 2021 The federal government of Canada has released draft regulations on a new federal greenhouse gas (GHG) offset system, which would allow municipalities, farmers, indigenous communities, businesses, and others to earn offset credits for projects that reduce…

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Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2021

Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2021 Parasexual recombination in cancer cells Within a colony that originates from a single hybrid cell and is formed by spontaneous fusion of differentially labelled breast cancer cells, most cells maintain the expression of both parent-specific fluorescent markers. However, a subset of cells lost the…

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Nature climate change, Marzo

Volume 11 Issue 3, March 2021 Phenological shifts across kingdoms In Russia, the first boletes (mushrooms) occur in early July each year, yet climate change impacts the timing of such events. In this issue, Tomas Roslin, Otso Ovaskainen and colleagues use an expansive dataset to investigate phenological shifts across taxa…

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Nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement

Synthesis report by the secretariat Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement Third sessionGlasgow, 1-12 November 2021 https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs/ndc-synthesis-report  Resumen Este reporte sintetiza la información contenida en las 48 puestas al día o nuevas contribuciones nacionalmente determinadas (NDC) comunicadas por 75 Partes del…

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Policy & Regulatory Brazil initiates privatisation process of power utility Eletrobras 26 Feb 2021 The Brazilian president has delivered a provisional measure to Congress, which allows the national development bank BNDES to start the privatisation process of the state-owned power utility Eletrobras. Brazil directly controls 42.57% of Eletrobras’s total capital….

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Actualidad científica

Actualidad científica: Del 1 al 25 de febrero, 2021 Microbiología Identifican cómo un hongo almacena recuerdos Marta Pulido Salgado Aunque no posee sistema nervioso central, Physarum polycephalum memoriza la localización de los nutrientes. Física cuántica Un paso clave hacia la Internet cuántica Davide Castelvecchi Un experimento logra conectar tres dispositivos…

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