12th August 2015
Oslo, Norway
By HM Ambassador Sarah Gillett The space probe “New Horizons” recently reached the edge of our solar system, after a journey of 4.7 billion kilometres to Pluto. I was amongst the many following with admiration and excitement the “call home message”, the imagery, and the promise of fascinating extensions to our knowledge of the universe. […]
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7th December 2012
New Delhi, India
A recent visit to India by the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington to talk about UK and India collaboration on research and innovation got me thinking about some of the fantastic projects that we are currently working on. Research and Innovation partnership between the two countries is growing from strength to strength, […]
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10th June 2011
Toronto, Canada
This is John Preece guestblogging about the recent Equinox Summit, a week-long forum of the Waterloo Global Science Initiative with a mandate (this year) to bring about a clean, secure global energy future. Scientists, engineers, policymakers and other experts discussed a wide range of scenarios, producing a summary communiqué [PDF] with a comprehensive briefing to […]
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27th January 2011
Ottawa, Canada
Welcome blog readers to our first billingual guest blog posting! In this posting, Nicolina, our Science Officer in Montreal discusses her trip to Newfoudland, looking into renewable energy. This blog was written by our guest blogger in french, and translated to english for the complete Canadian billingualism experience (french and english being Canada’s two official […]
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21st January 2011
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
The British Government aims to be the “greenest ever”. So it is no surprise that in recent official meetings – and we have many more visitors to Budapest than usual as a result of Hungary’s EU Presidency – UK Ministers and officials have raised the subject of renewable energy and Hungary’s geothermal potential. Thermal waters […]
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