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Discussions were aimed at increasing awareness on tourism and climate change-related issues and to encourage the sector to engage in actions that reinforce national commitments to the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
"The tourism sector is both a vector and a victim of climate change and we are fully committed to contribute to reach the objectives set by the Paris Agreement," said UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai.
"This event was essential to advance this agenda, especially the discussion on measurement and reporting requirements as a basis for identifying and prioritizing climate action in tourism," Rifai added.
"Sustainable tourism creates opportunities and assembles partners to help transform the industry towards low emissions and more efficient and less polluting operations. We must make tourism and every other industry contributor to our climate change action and a sustainable future," said Patricia Espinosa, UNFCCC Executive Secretary.
The event focused in particular on the need for partnerships with the private sector and the role of sustainable transportation to accelerate climate action in tourism.
"Climate change can only be addressed if actors from all parts of society -- governments, businesses, NGOs and consumers -- make a global and broad shift towards sustainable consumption and production patterns. Accounting for 10% of GDP, 7% of the world's exports and one in 11 jobs, tourism is one of the main economic sectors in the world, and as such has to be at the core of this essential transition," said Charles Arden-Clarke, Head of the 10YFP Secretariat.


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The Heggarties have been around for some years but its only now that their first album is due for release. From South Australia The Heggarties song "Shannon" i snow playing on Australian Country Radio.
Wren from The Heggarties told Australian Country Radio, "After eight years of playing together in various lineups and playing both covers and original music, this album is like the birth of our collective child. It reflects all our different personalities and sounds and is therefore unique to us. We didnt know what to expect and we didnt try for anything in particular, we just became who we are as a unit and this album reflects that.'"
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Damaged pipes indicate lightning caused Bainbridge bar fire
Investigators have concluded that a lightning strike was the likely cause of a fire that destroyed a Winslow bar on Monday morning.
Bainbridge Fire Marshall Luke Carpenter said small holes found in the 122 Bar & Restaurant's interior pipes indicate that the building was struck by lightning during the storm, which raged over the island at about 2:30 a.m. on Monday.
"We found pin-holing in interior piping of the building that is consistent with damage caused by a lightning strike," Carpenter said.
The idea that lightning can cause pipe punctures is a relatively new theory put forth by the Orlando Utilities Commission, which operates in an area of Florida that sees 10 times as many lightning strikes as the rest of the country.
A lightning strike can pass through the ground and into a nearby building's metal pipes. When the current is blocked by a dead end or nonmetallic pipe fitting, the electricity builds up and then discharges, causing "a miniature version of the original lighting strike," according the commission's 1997 report.
The resulting burst of electricity creates holes that vary in size, depending on the strength of the charge.
The Bainbridge Island Fire Department concluded its investigation on Wednesday. Investigators spent three days examining the Winslow Way building and sifting through the ashes. They consulted with local law enforcement and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The exact cause of the fire could not be determined because the building was severely damaged by the blaze. Its interior was gutted and a large portion of its roof burned away or collapsed.
Investigators ruled out arson.
Firefighters found the 28-year-old building "totally engulfed in flames" when they arrived at the scene just before 4:45 a.m. on Monday, Carpenter said.
The fire likely would not have spread so quickly if it had a sprinkler system and a fire alarm, according to investigators.
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Lessons in Energy from an MIT Sloan School Grad
A little less than two years ago I made the decision to enroll at MIT Sloan for an MBA. Shortly after getting to the campus, I made the decision to look at careers in the energy sector. Despite being armed with a technical degree and spending some time in the energy sector prior to enrolling at Sloan, I was green—no pun intended. A sequence of lucky associations and learning experiences exposed me to different aspects of the energy sector.
After 16 months and an MBA degree, I can safely say that it was a great learning experience trying to understand the business side of innovation in the energy sector. While it is unfair to characterize a sector into generic "boxes" to better understand it, I have attempted to do so regardless. I've read multiple documents and have heard investors and entrepreneurs talk about the risks involved in new ventures. I am not going to repeat them here. Instead I want to write about three crucial factors that one needs to appreciate when starting or investing in a new venture in energy: policy, people, and scale.
Everyone in the energy sector knows this: regulation and policy drive the adoption of a majority of energy technologies/services in the world today. Feed-in tariffs in Germany and the rest of Western Europe were (and are) responsible for the rise of solar and wind energy. Product and investment tax credits drove wind and solar manufacturing and installation, biomass, as well as geothermal project development in the U.S. in the last three years. Numerous states in the U.S. have extended multiple tax credits for energy-efficient appliances, homes, and offices.
China, India, and Japan have also joined the party and have aggressively included regulations to favor the adoption of new energy technologies. A day does not go by these days without a politician/activist/industrialist calling for the adoption of a renewable energy standard (RES) in the U.S.—some of the European nations have already either approved an RES or are in the process of approving one.
So what does this mean for you and me? Well, if you are thinking of starting a new venture or want a job in investing, you should keep in mind that success to a large extent currently depends on policy and regulations helping you out. Or if you don't want to depend on regulations, try to work or invest in a business that does not use them as a crutch—there are a few of these if you look hard.
Quite a few intelligent people have already written about how the energy "renaissance" of the 21st century is very different from that of the Internet/high-tech boom of the 1990s. I will spare you the side-by-side comparisons here, but it is safe to say they are indeed sufficiently different. One important distinction is the background of the founders. You did not need an advanced degree, or to spend hours in a research lab, to come up with the business idea for Facebook, PayPal, eBay, or Amazon.com (Google is an exception). A majority of innovation in energy that will be successfully commercialized will originate … Next Page »
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4 responses to "Lessons in Energy from an MIT Sloan School Grad"
Unfortunately this article is written by someone who is the antithesis of an entrepreneur – he works for the government.
Very nice article and summary. You were a great contributor to the Energy Innovation Ecosystem not only at MIT but in the greater Boston area from the first day you got here. You will be missed physically but we expect you digital presence to continue.
Two things I would add:
1. Another "P" that you are missing is "Price". When dealing with energy, one always has to keep in mind it is a commodity.
2. The other point that you hint at, is that "energy" is like "technology" — it is so broad and there are so many differenet varieties that one has to be careful with the term. Always make sure which part of energy you are talking about when discussing it.
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Nice summary. A lot of the time scale and price are forgotten in the initial analysis. Also, as Bill pointed out, energy is commodity-thus distribution and supply chain becomes an important component of the overall business.
It seems to me that Policy, People, Scale and Price are crucial aspects of new enterprise in every business sector. The days when the business community and government could go about their own interests, ignoring each other, are (thankfully) over. I disagree with Sd-skeptic's comment that working for the government is forcibly "the antithesis" of entrepreneurship — there are some pencil-pushers in business and some energetic visionaries in the civil service. We need to give up our ideological hang-ups — we're all in this together.


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In 1984, Ronald Reagan won the presidency of the United States in a landslide victory over Walter Mondale. My earliest political memory comes from this election: A girl in my kindergarten class announced, "My dad voted for Mondale!" Despite having no idea what it meant at the time, I remember thinking it sounded exciting.
Many years later, when I heard the name Mondale again, it sounded familiar, but I didn't know why–which is often the case with presidential hopefuls from days gone by. Every four years, the presidential campaign becomes a national opera. Individual players take their places on the public stage and go through a series of mostly choreographed motions, including public speeches and debates. People like Sarah Palin and Al Gore become part of daily discourse, but when they lose, they seem to disappear.
In 2008, I went on the presidential campaign trail to make drawings to accompany a piece about John Edwards by Will Blythe for Playboy magazine. Although I accumulated hundreds of drawings of all the candidates, the piece was never published.
Watching the recent debates I was reminded of these drawings when I saw the gestures I had studied four years ago repeated by both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. I wanted to revisit my drawings and figure out what happened to the candidates of recent yore.
Some ex-candidates are easy to find. Senior statesman John McCain is often in the news and is now serving his fifth term in the U.S. Senate, representing Arizona. Joseph Biden became Vice President of the United States. Hillary Rodham Clinton is seemingly everywhere in the world as she goes about her business as Secretary of State. And of course, Mitt Romney is the Republican Party nominee currently running against President Barack Obama.
Others prove more difficult to track. While many early contenders remain active in politics, they no longer play major national roles. In fact, it is hard to remember their names or what they do. For those who leave politics, there seem to exist only a few possible career paths—political commentator, lobbyist, businessman or member of an alphabet soup of political action and non-profit organizations.
Listed below are the "also-rans"—ghosts of the last presidential campaign.
Evan Bayh (D) is a poster child for the post-political careers of choice. After choosing not to run for re-election to his U.S. Senate seat from Indiana last year, Bayh became a commentator for Fox News. He is also active in a Washington D.C. law firm and is on the Board of Directors of something called "Apollo Global Management."
Christopher Dodd (D) retired from his Connecticut seat in the U.S. Senate in 2010 and is said to be earning $1.5 million annually as head of the Motion Picture Association of America.
John Edwards (D) made headlines after he was indicted by a North Carolina grand jury on six felony charges. He was accused of violating multiple federal campaign contribution laws to cover up an extramarital affair he admitted to following his campaign. He was acquitted on May 31, 2012.
And what ever happened to the man who ran against Ronald Reagan? Walter Mondale went on to become the U.S. ambassador to Japan during the Clinton presidency, and later ran for a Senate seat after Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone (D) died in a plane crash only 11 days before the 2002 congressional elections. When Mondale lost the race to be senator in his home state, the only one he had won in 1984, he earned the dubious distinction of being the sole major party politician to have lost statewide elections in all 50 states. Today, Mondale can be found in the same haunts as so many of his also-ran political aficionados: think tanks and political action groups.
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The Lee Family. Once upon a time Noel and Rena got married and had 2 kids - Doris and Donald. Then one day, Doris got married to Jeremy and had her own 2 kids - Vince and Edda. We all live far apart, and keep moving around. It's hard to keep tabs on each other. Welcome to our blog.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Camping again -
As I think we are committed (both in senses of the word) to camp again with the scouts this year, we finally bought a tent (hooray Labor Day sale at REI). We had originally thought we needed a 2-room 8-person tent and supply it with two inflatable queen sized mattresses, but somehow, based on the stuff on sale that we saw, we ended up with at 1-room, 5-person tent. Apparently we enjoy stuff on sale for half price more than we love having two rooms while camping. I think we might be able to fit one inflatable queen sized mattress in this tent, we will inevitably argue about who gets to sleep on said inflatable mattress, as all four of us cannot fit on a single mattress. However, we did not find the inflatable mattress on sale at REI, so it is not purchased yet, I assume that maybe we will all be sleeping again on the hard ground on the next trip.
As soon as it arrived, we went camping on the deck. Edda inaugurated it with her afternoon 15 minute nap.
Ruby checked out the luxurious accommodations:
Vince finished up the camp out with an outdoor picnic in the back yard. Vince had gone earlier in the day with Jeremy grocery shopping and managed to persuade Jeremy that instead of just the traditional berry and fruit flavored yogurt, that we needed to branch out into foreign territory such as French Vanilla and Orange Creme. And it is one of those flavors that Vince is eating in this photo.
By Doris at September 05, 2010
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We like foam like for your bed from walmart or from the sleeper sofa. Those air things just don't work for me.
- September 06, 2010 10:44 AM
- Rena said...
It is good to camp on deck. We should camp at our farm some time.
- September 06, 2010 12:52 PM
- Doris said...
Hmmm, do you mean the memory foam? or a particular camping foam pad?
- September 06, 2010 4:28 PM
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| 8.4°C Belfast
Northern Ireland households are struggling to live on the same amount of money as this time last year — despite falling prices.
New research into the spending power of families reveals stagnation in average disposable incomes when the cost of food, clothing and fuel has gone down.
Disposable incomes in Northern Ireland are on average £84-per-week — the same as last year, and 44% less than the UK average.
But the good news is that this is the first time disposable income hasn't dropped year-on-year in the region since September 2010.
Economist John Simpson said: "We may be reaching the bottom of the recession in terms of inflation and prices and living standards," said Mr Simpson.
Annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation fell for the third consecutive month in June, hitting its lowest level since November 2009 — and meaning that prices for household goods were falling.
But despite the lessening impact of inflation, families are still £11-a-week down on the disposable income they had in 2010.
And Asda president Andy Clarke said: "Our customers tell us it still feels tough out there, and with the kids (off school), mums need all the help they can get to balance the books."
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Booked a room with two Queen beds for the Digital Parents Conference for just under $200 per night. No breakfast included, but that's what the fruit I snaffled from the plane and lunch buffets was for!
After an initial stuff up, where we were put into a room with just one king bed (we upgraded you! but yah, great, I just MET this person, not yet on bed sharing terms), and then when I arrive I walked into an already occupied room where someone was asleep with the concierge due to them forgetting to change the room number on my key. Silly. Anyway. Once that was all settled :/
The beds were super comfy and the shower nice and HOT. The aircon controller had me confused, so I just stuck with using the window to regulate the temperature…
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