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Chemistry World
March 24, 2011 |
Mild S&T budget growth in China China's science and technology (S&T) budget has increased by 12.5 per cent compared to last year, but its growth momentum has slowed   |
Chemistry World
April 12, 2011
Hepeng Jia |
China sets modest energy saving plan After forced power cuts last year in a bid to save energy, China has released more realistic figures on energy saving and carbon emission reduction. |
Chemistry World
October 16, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
Credit crunch may boost Chinese science China's research budget is unlikely to be hit by the global financial crisis, and may even receive a further boost, according to policy experts. |
Chemistry World
May 19, 2009
Karen Harries-Rees |
Major increase in Australian science spending The Australian government has surprised the science community with a major increase in spending on science and innovation in its 2009 budget, despite tough economic conditions. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2011
Maria Burke |
Higher education funding rises around the world 'While our universities are experiencing cuts, other nations are pumping billions more into their universities to gain a competitive edge,' says Wendy Piatt, director-general of the Russell Group, which represents 20 research intensive UK universities. |
Chemistry World
May 12, 2011
Ned Stafford |
Eastern European research blighted by funding shortfall While the recently released 2012 draft EU budget is set to increase research spending by 13 per cent, scientists in eastern Europe are continuing to struggle. |
Chemistry World
October 21, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
OECD urges China to innovate Despite China's impressive investment in research and development, the country lags behind others when it comes to innovation. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
US budget bears good news for chemistry President Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2010 - due to start 1 October - represents very good news for chemical science and for the general research community. |
Chemistry World
September 5, 2007
Hepeng Jia |
China Sets Renewable Energy Targets in 100 Billion Dollar Plan China's powerful energy watchdog has said that the country will aim to get 15% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020 in an effort to curb its carbon dioxide emissions. |
Chemistry World
December 6, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
US urged to triple energy R&D investment US President Obama's panel of science advisers has recommended a tripling of the country's federal investment in energy-related research and technology to $16 billion ( 10.2 billion) annually. |
Chemistry World
October 26, 2011
Maria Burke |
Europe risks being outstripped by R&D rivals EU companies are lagging behind in R&D investment compared with major competitors from the US and some Asian economies, according to the European Commission's 2011 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. |
Chemistry World
May 17, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
Congress pulls bill to increase science budgets A political fight between Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress has derailed legislation authorising funding for basic research and innovation. |
Chemistry World
November 20, 2007
Hepeng Jia |
China Leaps up Research League Table China has overtaken Japan and the UK to become the world's second largest producer of science and technology (S&T) papers. |
Chemistry World
October 20, 2010
Turley & Lewcock |
Science budget frozen in spending review The UK's science budget will suffer a 10 per cent cut in real terms over the next four years and higher education has been hit hard in the government's public spending review announced today. |
Chemistry World
June 2, 2010
Leila Sattary |
Universities face hard years ahead A new report warns that widespread cuts being made to higher education funding across Europe is likely to impact the quality of European teaching and research for years to come. |
Chemistry World
October 12, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
EC pushes renewables research The European Commission has called for a dramatic increase in investment in low carbon technologies to address climate change and secure the future energy supply. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2010
Akshat Rathi |
India calls for ambitious increase in science funding The Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India has advised the government to increase its science funding from less than 1 per cent of GDP to up to 2.5 per cent by 2020. |
Chemistry World
August 9, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
US debt deal is a mixed bag for researchers It has become clear that the news is mixed for US science agencies and the researchers who depend on their funding. |
Chemistry World
January 4, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
China Allows Academics to Own Patents China has revised its 'science and technology constitution' to allow scientists, institutes and universities to own patents arising from publicly-funded research in an effort to boost innovation. |
Chemistry World
May 7, 2009
Karen Harries-Rees |
Australia delays carbon trading scheme The Australian government has delayed the start of its proposed emissions trading scheme by a year and introduced the possibility of tougher reduction targets, in a bid to ease pressure on companies during the global financial crisis. |
Chemistry World
February 12, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Belief in climate change plunges Recent polls suggest the public in the UK and US are becoming increasingly sceptical about climate change. |
Chemistry World
November 7, 2011
Eugene Gerden |
Russia Books Place at Science Top Table The Innovative Russia 2020 scheme should see science funding rise to at least 2.5 per cent of GDP. However, some critics think the scheme is overambitious and predict that implementation will run into bureacratic problems. |
Chemistry World
August 21, 2009
Hepeng Jia |
China's emissions to peak early A new report suggests that China's carbon emissions could peak in 2030, twenty years earlier than previously estimated. |
Chemistry World
February 2, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
Science shines in Obama's budget proposal US science agencies would fare quite well under President Obama's newly unveiled budget proposal for fiscal year 2011, despite his plan to reduce the nation's trillion-dollar deficit by freezing non-defence discretionary spending. |
Chemistry World
April 15, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
Delayed US budgets finally agreed The Obama administration says it no longer plans to keep the budgets of the key physical science agencies on a trajectory to double between 2006 and 2016, but it is still vowing to provide them with 'strong investments'. |
Chemistry World
August 22, 2011
Hepeng Jia |
Chemical profits nibbled by oversupplies China's chemical industry experienced an 'unexpected' harvest in the first half of the year, although the good days might not last long due to the expected oversupplies which have long harassed the nation's chemical sector. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Linda Rowan |
A Change in Climate in Congress: To Act or Not To Act Because some state and local governments are taking action, Congress will need to set some federal standards in the near term. The nation can ill-afford a hodge-podge of regulations and policies on climate change across the country. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Bjorn Lomborg |
Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2007
Hepeng Jia |
China to Ramp up Nuclear Power China may dramatically increase the proportion of energy it gets from nuclear power in the near future, according to the energy expert charged with developing the country's new energy strategy. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
Senate looks to trim $162 million from NSF US Senators plan to cut the National Science Foundation's budget by 2.4 per cent to $6.7 billion ( 4.2 billion) in 2012, and this $162 million reduction has set alarm bells ringing throughout the research community. |
Chemistry World
November 24, 2011
Hepeng Jia |
China's emissions still surging China's carbon dioxide emissions have kept growing quickly, shadowing worldwide efforts to fight global warming. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 15, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Calderon: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change Former President of Mexico Felipe Calderon says the United States Congress and Chinese coal plants are the biggest obstacles to fixing climate change. |
Chemistry World
October 14, 2010
Laura Howes |
France and Spain commit funds to research The 'knowledge economy' has been declared a priority for the governments of both France and Spain, as they announce extra funds for higher education and research in their 2011 budgets. |
BusinessWeek
March 22, 2004
Bruce Einhorn |
China: Wen Won't Slam On The Brakes The appetite for jobs is the main reason promised economic restraint is unlikely |
Chemistry World
March 12, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
Energy Focus as Small Firms Benefit From Darling's First Budget The UK government's 2008 budget sees small businesses and school science netting extra funding, and new environmental targets designed to boost renewable energy use. |
Chemistry World
August 2006
Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Action Please, Not Reviews of Reviews Whether developing new materials for fuel cells, or contributing to the Council for Science and Technology's nano-review, chemists' voices in the UK must be heard by policy-makers. Given the current pause for further thought, now is the perfect time to chip in. |
Geotimes
December 2006
Megan Sever |
Climate Policy -- Wading Into Heated Politics: Q&A with Gerald North An interview with National Academy of Sciences committee chair Gerald North about his experiences examining the hockey stick climate report, testifying about climate change before Congress, and about his thoughts on the climate policy debate. |
Chemistry World
November 17, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
US science agencies poised for tough times Current political and economic conditions in the US could mean bad news for the nation's science agencies and the researchers. |
Chemistry World
February 2, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Russian science losing its edge Research in Russia, considered a scientific powerhouse during the cold war years, has faded in global importance since the break-up of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s and now is lagging behind China and India. |
Chemistry World
December 8, 2008
Matt Wilkinson |
Dow wields the axe The company announced plans to 'eliminate' 5000 jobs, cast off several business units and idle around 30 per cent of its production plants. |
Chemistry World
October 2007
Jeff Hardy |
Mind the Gap The technology to plug the UK's energy gap is already here. But where is the political will? |
Chemistry World
January 16, 2014
Hepeng Jia |
Leading Chinese chemist jailed for embezzlement A leading environmental chemist has been jailed for embezzling money earmarked for research in China. |
Chemistry World
June 29, 2009
Anna Lewcock |
Going green with white biotech Industrial biotech has also been growing steadily in the chemicals sector, and in 2007 six per cent of all chemical sales were generated with the help of enzymes - so-called 'white' biotech. |
Chemistry World
September 2009
Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Viva Espana! Spain is doing rather well in a number of fields involved in the design and implementation of new technologies, including, biotechnology, renewable energy and water treatment. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Hawk in Hock: Obama pretends to be frugal as we sink deeper in debt The president wants to signal that he's serious about cutting the federal budget. Unfortunately, his plan hinges on the assumption that Americans do not know how to calculate percentages. |
Chemistry World
July 20, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Cash boost for EU research The European Commission has revealed details of its largest investment in research and innovation to date, announcing a funding package worth 6.4 billion ( 5.4 billion). |
Chemistry World
January 6, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
Obama moves to protect research agency budgets President Obama has signed legislation to enable key US physical science agencies to enjoy consistent budget boosts over the next several years. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
Chemistry World
April 2007
Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Swindled? The bottom line is that just a few degrees increase in global average temperatures is likely to have a severe impact on human life. The silver lining of anthropogenic climate change is that, being man-made, at least we stand a chance of doing something about it. |
Geotimes
April 2007
Semans & de Fontaine |
Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: The Business World Looks at Climate Change Increasing momentum at the state and federal levels, along with the business community, is proof that we are now in the design phase for climate change legislation, and companies clearly expect regulations soon. |
