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Mistras Annual Review 2008
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The European Parliament has approved new regulations for pesticides. Christopher Folkeson Welch, Director of the Mistra programme MASE hopes that the new regulations will make it easier to register new microorganisms.
Do the unexpected. Mankind has been poorly equipped to handle sudden ecological and economic change. Doing so involves planning for the unknown. It requires not only a good system for monitoring the...
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One of Mistra´s Idea Support projects has developed a new technique for measuring a material´s chemical activity, i.e., how it reacts with and influences organisms. The technique is simple, cheap and...
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FUNDINGS
The research programme ProEnviro has decided to finance an additional project, focused on environmentally-adapted product development.
NEWS
More research and faster knowledge transfer is needed to achieve the goal of a poison-free environment. Dialogue and cooperation between researchers and public agencies is also needed. These are some of the conclusions from the conference Forum for Environmental Research, which was held in Uppsala...
RESEARCH RESULT
Easily understandable information about the impacts of foodstuffs is needed for environmental arguments to achieve greater influence when food service providers choose amongst products. This has been revealed by an earlier Idea Support project.
CAPITAL ASSETS NEWS
Through the research programme Sustainable Investments and through its own asset management, Mistra is working to promote sustainable investing.
FUNDINGS
The Board of Directors of the research programme ProEnviro has decided to finance four new projects for small- and medium-sized enterprises. All four projects focus on environmentally-adapted product development. The first project is expected to start in February, 2009.
RESEARCH RESULT
The ever growing rate of nitrogen discharge to our coastal seas has lead to undesirable algae blooms. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have explored how nitrogen levels can be decreased with the help of bacteria.
NEWS
The Energy Technology Center (ETC) in Piteå and Chemrec AB have been awarded the Swedish Road Administration´s environment prize for their work with alternative fuels based on so-called black liquor. In addition, Chemrec has recently issued new stock shares to enable increased production of new...
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