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Tampere, Finland, to produce carbon-negative district heating

The commercial production of carbon-negative district heating has begun in Hiedanranta, Tampere. This is the first time carbon-negative district heating is being produced commercially in Finland. Hiedanranta city district in Tampere will act as a development platform in a project where Carbofex Oy company will produce district heating alongside biochar, its main product. The district …

Subodh Gupta Edited by Camille Morineau and Mathilde de Croix Texts by Germano Celant, Nicolas Bourriaud, Bhrigupati Singh

A monograph accompanying the first retrospective of the artist in France Characterized by the use of found objects and utensils from daily life, Subodh Gupta’s work touches on universal themes: the opposition between the rural and the urban, between craftsmanship and industrialization, between one-of-a-kind and mass-produced, between personal and monumental scale. Subodh Gupta offers in-depth …

The crumbling architecture of arms control

At a political rally on Saturday, 20 October, US President Donald J. Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the 1987 Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty). This confirms what has steadily been unfolding over the past couple of years: the architecture of Russian–US nuclear arms control is …

NBFC Crisis – Real Estate on Tenterhooks

Shobhit Agarwal, MD & CEO – ANAROCK Capital It may be true that ‘when the going gets tough, the tough gets going,’ but this doesn’t hold true for the Indian real estate sector currently. The ongoing NBFC crisis post IL&FS default has made things even more difficult for developers.   Post the banking system’s freeze …

e-Pharma rules will bring positive change in healthcare ecosystem

  New Delhi, October 16, 2018: The Internet and Mobile Association of India [IAMAI] in its submission on the draft rules on e-pharmacy to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that e-pharmacy models provide tracking and traceability of medicines, abuse prevention, addressing consumption of drugs without prescription, tax loss and value-added services …

The Plastic Storm: Ocean Plastic Waste Brewing Tidal Wave of Consumer Activism and Increased Industry Uncertainty, IHS Markit Says

Rapidly changing consumer expectations for plastics and increasing regulations or bans creating market challenges and disconnects for producers   HOUSTON (October 8, 2018) –The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of industry investments at …