Environment and Sustainability Digest
Cogitations: Environment and Sustainability 17 February 2004 High temperatures killing Northland shellfish Sustainable
village project begins Bioprospecting rules cause concern Climate change threatens Aussie economy Forget Kyoto, world
energy council says Corporate environmental accounting
Cogitations: Environment and Sustainability 17 February 2004 In environment news this week, the death of thousands of
shellfish in the Northland area is being blamed on high temperatures, with fisheries officer
High temperatures killing Northland shellfish High temperatures seem to be having a deadly impact on shellfish in
Northland. Dead tuatua are appearing in their thousands on a 20-kilometre stretch of Ninety Mile Beach in the Far North.
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Sustainable village project begins A "sustainable urban village" that will test a new technique of flax-reinforced earth
building is about to get under way in south Auckland. The first two buildings of 30-60 planned for the village...
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Bioprospecting rules cause concern Bioprospecting by business for unique organisms - or "extremophiles" - in
Antarctica's cold wastes is threatening a new gold rush on New Zealand's back door. Extremophiles are bacteria which
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Climate change threatens Aussie economy New Zealand's alpine industry is in line to benefit from an Australian climate
meltdown that threatens to cut snowfall by up to 20 percent. Thousands of Australian skiers could be forced abroad as...
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Forget Kyoto, world energy council says The Kyoto climate treaty is irrelevant and it is time to move on and boost
investment in reliable, clean energy for the future, although prices will rise, a leading international energy official
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Corporate environmental accounting The environmental performance of corporations and its link to their bottom line is
the subject of new guidelines released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).Ciba Sp...
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