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News Summary: AGS Annual meeting- The energy issue
tops the future agenda
March 29, 2004
Future research
on a high level, even higher than today. After seven successful
years with more than 70 research projects for a better environment
and a sustainable future it looks like the Alliance for Global
Sustainability, AGS, will focus on some really big flagship
projects. What those projects will be is not yet decided but the
energy issue is high on the agenda. The annual meeting at Chalmers
was attended by about three hundred participants from all over the
world topped by EU commissioner Margot Wallström.
News Summary: Margot Wallström at the AGS meeting:
"Politicians and scientists must co-operate"
March 24,
2004
In her opening speech Margot Wallström, EU Commissioner
for the Environment, emphasized on how important it is that
politicians, industry and scientists co-operate in environmental
issues. "The politicians can put the necessary questions and they
are in charge of the research funds", she said and continued, "EU's
new environmental plan contains two major issues: one concerns
climate and the other one is about how to develop technology for a
sustainable society. It may take 50-100 years before we can see the
results of the investments made today."
MIT Tech Talk: Luisa, Mario Molina battle air
pollution in Mexico City
April 2, 2003
An
international team led by an MIT research scientist and her husband,
an MIT Nobel laureate, is working to help Mexican policy-makers find
ways to reduce Mexico City’s severe and persistent air pollution.
The researchers, who have been working on the project for more than
three years, will be traveling back to Mexico in late March to spend
another five weeks using a novel mobile laboratory to collect field
data.
KNUST News: Vice - Chancellor Breaks New Grounds in
Japan
March 2003
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. K.A.Andam
was invited to represent Africa by the Alliance for Global
sustainability (AGS) comprising four of the world's top Technical
Universities. AGS is the world's top technical elite club made up of
four technical Universities on three continents: America -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), U.S.A.; Europe - Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology - Zurich , Switzerland and Chalmers
University of Technology, Sweden; Asia - University of Tokyo, Japan.
At the 2003 conference in the university of Tokyo, Japan, the
Vice-Chancellor joined the four Presidents of the elite universities
in the conference "Science, Industry and Society: Partnership for
sustainable Development".
MIT Tech Talk: MIT team works toward energy-efficient
Chinese homes
December 9, 2002
Inspired by a booming
economy and new spending power, the people of China want the
advantages that their Western counterparts have: more living space,
more comfort and more amenities. Studies by MIT researchers working
with colleagues from Chinese universities and development companies
suggest that those dreams can be fulfilled without necessarily
adopting the energy-intensive practices of the West.
MIT Tech Talk: Arsenic in Bangladesh drinking wells
may be linked to crop irrigation, MIT study finds
November
21, 2002
A ruthless killer in Bangladesh’s drinking water is
making millions of people sick and may be causing as many as 3,000
deaths each year. That killer—naturally occurring arsenic in the
water drawn from family wells—appears to have been released through
a process involving crop irrigation, at least in one part of the
country. At a research site in the southern part of Bangladesh,
scientists calculated that irrigation pumping, which began in the
last several decades, has dramatically altered groundwater flow
through the aquifer.
MIT Tech Talk: Alliance meeting to focus on
sustainable development
March 20, 2002
Given sobering
realities such as the economic downturn, persistent poverty in
developing countries and declining support for aid to those
countries, and increasing materials and energy consumption in the
developed world, what are the prospects for sustainable development
over the next several years? This is one of the difficult questions
that will be faced at the Alliance of Global Sustainability’s (AGS)
annual meeting March 21-23 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
MIT Tech Talk: Team of architects help design
sustainable buildings in China
April 4, 2001
Leon R.
Glicksman, professor of architecture and mechanical engineering at
MIT, is the leader of a four-year project funded by the Alliance for
Global Sustainability (AGS) to assist Chinese architects and
developers in designing more energy-efficient buildings. Begun in
1998, the project emphasizes development of simple, generic
solutions that are appropriate to the local area, are very
cost-effective and will be accepted by the local people.
Expert Meeting on Global Accords Discusses
Inter-Linkages between Ozone and Climate Change
Conventions
November 28, 2000
The United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations University (UNU),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Accords Program,
and the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) organized an expert
meeting to discuss problems in implementing global accords,
specifically on linkages between the ozone and climate change
conventions, at the MIT campus, Cambridge Massachusetts on 2 and 3
November 2000.
MIT Tech Talk: AGS members discuss dissemination of
global sustainability research
January 26, 2000
It
took the heat wave and drought of 1988 to focus public attention on
global warming, although then-New York Times writer Philip Shabecoff
had first written about the greenhouse effect nine years earlier.
"Information and data are not enough to leverage change," he said at
MIT last week at the annual meeting of the Alliance for Global
Sustainability (AGS), a joint environmental research program between
MIT, the University of Tokyo and the Swiss Federal Institutes of
Technology. "The truth will not, as of itself, make us free," he
said.
Sustainability group holds annual meeting at
MIT
January 12, 2000
From January 19-22, MIT will host
this year's annual meeting of the Alliance for Global Sustainability
(AGS). "Agenda for Sustainability: Translating Knowledge into Action
and Learning to Lead" will focus on how to communicate environmental
research results effectively to corporations and policymakers who
can put the research into immediate use. The conference will also
showcase some of the research underway at the
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