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22nd May 2015 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
World Biodiversity Day
Over the last two years we have been keen buyers of local honey in Tashkent. One recent weekend we went to see where it comes from, and drove out of Tashkent to a meadow close to the hills behind Parkent. The beekeeper showed us the stack of hives stacked up on a large trailer, and […]
21st May 2015 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 11-17 May 2015
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21st May 2015 Paris, France
75 years ago: the evacuation of Dunkirk
This week end we are going to be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk, one of those extraordinary iconic events of the Second World War.
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21st May 2015 Toronto, Canada
Did you see The Imitation Game?
If you didn’t, I’d thoroughly recommend it. It’s a dramatisation of Alan Turing and others’ work, capturing the herculean task that the code breakers of Bletchley Park undertook to help our war effort. Historians estimate that the code breakers shortened the war by two years and saved thousands of lives…
21st May 2015
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Church, government, business: a climate change alliance
This week I attended an important conference at the Pontifical Santa Croce University, on “The New Climate Economy. How Economic Growth and Sustainability Can Go Hand in Hand”. It was jointly organised by the Dutch Embassy to the Holy See and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and brought together leading political figures, business […]
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21st May 2015 Canberra, Australia
Getting to know you
It’s been over a month since I arrived with my family in Australia; and it’s been busy! I’ve been investing time in getting to know the country and have travelled 6,500 miles in the last two weeks, shuttling between Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. I’ve met our fantastic ‘UK in Australia’ team spread across […]
20th May 2015
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El sueño de lograr un mundo libre de discriminación
Para marcar el Día Internacional Contra la Homofobia, Transfobia y Bifobia la Embajadora Sarah Dickson le pidió a Jorge López Sologaistoa, Director Ejecutivo de OASIS escribir este blog acerca de la situación en Guatemala. Pueden conocer más acerca de este tema en http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/es/ : “En un sentido muy estricto, la homofobia es entendida como una […]
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20th May 2015
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The dream of achieving a world free of discrimination
To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia Ambassador Dickson asked Jorge López Sologaistoa, Executive Director of OASIS to comment on the situation in Guatemala. You can also learn more about this issue here http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/ – also available in Spanish: http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/es/ . “In a very strict sense, homophobia is understood as an obsessive […]
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20th May 2015 Los Angeles, USA
Microalgae Mission to USA
Slimy isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you think of Phoenix, Arizona. But in March, 13 delegates from the UK had a chance to view Arizona State University’s amazing selection of ponds – and green slime. ASU’s facility is just one of five algae testbeds in the US as part of the […]
19th May 2015
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A Commemoration in Comana
On Sunday 10 May I headed out of Bucharest to the tranquil wetlands of the Neajlov Delta south of the city. With representatives of the local community, an Embassy group took a boat through channels framed by rushes and yellow irises to a large billboard, emerging out of the water and backed by reeds. The […]