Environmental Management Newsletter
December 6, 2012

This Week´s Featured News Stories
Stimulating private investment in green infrastructure - A how to guide
A new report from OECD identifies how governments can scale-up private investment towards greener infrastructure,e.g. in energy, transport and water sectors, to address climate change and local development goals. The report, Towards a Green Investment Policy Framework: The Case of Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure, notes filling the infrastructure investment gap and engaging private sector investment provides an opportunity to integrate consideration of climate change along side of other sustainability criteria in infrastructure planning. Achieving low-carbon, climate-resilient development ...
EPA Awards Almost $700,000 to Student Teams in Sustainable Technology Competition
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded grants to 45 college teams in phase I of its People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) annual student design competition. Each grant, totaling up to $15,000 per team, for an overall amount of $675,000, is applied toward designing and developing sustainable technologies to help protect people’s health and the environment while promoting economic development.  The annual P3 competition begins by awarding grants to student teams to develop and design their proposed technologies. The proposals highlight the team’s technology ...
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in Impact Assessment - Special Symposium of the International Association for Impact Assessment
7-8 February 2013 - Poster abstracts invited through 15 December.This symposium will bring together practitioners who work at the cutting edge of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) with both policy makers responsible for shaping IA frameworks and scientists committed to finding practical ways forward.Some sessions include
  • The mitigation hierarchy: What is it and how should it be used for EIAs
  • Biodiversity databases and tools
  • Integrating biodiversity and ES considerations into planning
  • Biodiversity action planning in the private sector
 Visit the symposium website for more information. Space is limited; register early!
 

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