Month: April 2012

puerto Ayora (Ecuador), 27 mar (EFE).-climate change is a threat increasingly risky, a chance to start “a new industrial revolution energy”, he told Efe Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and one of the most influential voices in the respect in the world. In a far-reaching report published in 2006 and that it bears his name, the British Stern made see global warming as something more than a concern of ministries of environment and environmentalists on the planet, but as an economic problem, which should consider companies and ministries of finance. Stern, which became part of the House of Lords in London for his work, finds moments of crisis also moments of transformation. “We must begin an energy industrial revolution,” said in an interview in Puerto Ayora, the largest town in the Galapagos Islands, where today will participate in a Conference on the subject. “That’s the good news, because the industrial revolutions are full of discoveries, creativity, growth and investment,” said Stern, who believed that Latin America may become a great source of biofuels for the world. Stern advocates an economic recovery worldwide “low emission” and therefore believes that United States and the European Union have made a “big mistake” focusing only on controlling the deficit and debt, the end of accounts have not done very well, in his view. In comparison, China launched in 2009...

VALENCIA, 27 ( EUROPA PRESS) The Valencian health, Luis Rosado, conseller explained Tuesday that the Auditors of the Generalitat are reviewing the more than 300,000 bills not accounted for, which totalled 1,343 million euros, to “proceed in the measure as possible to the corresponding payment” from this month of may. Rosado, after opening the first specific question of care and advice for people with respiratory pathology in Valencia, has explained that health keeps “informed” Generalitat Valenciana “all invoices not accounted for, that were not in the budget, long”. In fact, has pointed out that this information is conveyed through the accounts receivership, which in the last report was 1,343 million euros the amount of 300,000 invoices to the periods prior to January 2012 not included in the accounts of the Generalitat. At the moment, has pointed out that the auditors of the Generalitat are reviewing these invoices, some of them, explained, “major debts with some commercial houses and other smaller”. Thereon, has ensured that these bills would begin to be paid from the month of May and that initially the criterion will be due to age, according to the payment to suppliers plan designed by the central...

(updates with statements by Chavez and other details) Havana, 25 mar (EFE).-the Venezuela President, Hugo Chávez, is again in Havana where has already begun his treatment of radiotherapy, at a time when the island is preparing tomorrow for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. On the last midnight Hugo Chávez arrived at the airport of Havana where he was seen “very animated” off his plane and where he was received by his counterpart and ally, Raúl Castro, with “a warm hug of welcome”, said today the Cuban press. Has little passed over one week since last stay of Chávez in Cuba, where he spent 21 days (from February 24 to March 16th) by a new operation which had its removed a malignant tumor of two centimeters, recurrence of the cancer that was also spoken on the island in June of 2011. In a telephone call to the Venezuelan State television, Chavez explained that he received last night the first session of radiotherapy of the five to be submitted in the next few days on the island. The representative added that Thursday will return to Caracas. “must be in Venezuela, God willing, Thursday 29 (…) and will after two days, rather three days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, return (to Cuba) for five sessions more”, said. On this occasion, the arrival of Chavez to Havana occurs when the island is engaged...

Washington, 26 mar ( EFE).- The Court Supreme of United States review from today and for three days the constitutionality of the President’s health reform Barack Obama, considered the greatest achievement of his mandate. Is expected that the first meeting of the three planned will start at 10 a.m. local time (1400 GMT) on Monday. Sessions of six hours a day, the nine judges of the Supreme – five of them appointed by Republican presidents and the remaining four by Democrats – consider the arguments in favour and against the so-called affordable health care Act, passed by Congress and promulgated by Obama in 2010. The Governments of 26 States, mostly Republicans, have submitted demands against the law and, in particular, its most controversial ingredient: an obligation for all persons in the United States.UU. have health insurance or pay a fine for not having. For the Republicans that clause goes against the Constitution, and its objective is therefore the Supreme issue a ruling of unconstitutionality on the law or, in their absence, any of its parts. The Government, in turn, relies on known as the Commerce clause, contained in the Constitution and that it gives Congress capacity to regulate commercial activity abroad and among the States of the country. The dilemma is the interpretation of that clause, as opponents of reform argue that the Constitution gives Congress power to regulate...

Sydney ( Australia), 26 mar ( EFE).-A vaccine developed by an Australian scientific opens an hope for the Chlamydia bacterium does not end with the population of koalas in the oceanic country, reported local media. These emblematic animals are disappearing rapidly in some parts of Australia as a result of this disease, that produces lesions on the genitals and the eyes of the koalas causing infertility and blindness and consume slowly to death. Peter Timms, Professor of Microbiology of the Institute of health and biomedical innovation of the Queensland University of technology, has made the first tests with this new vaccine in koalas living in sanctuaries. Many of the vaccinated marsupials began to show a positive response to the sixty days of receiving this medicine and animals that had already contracted Chlamydia did not suffer adverse reactions. “we made tests for more than one year and after that time, the koalas are immunized,” said Timms the local ABC station. Next month, the team of scientists led by Timms tested the vaccine in the wild koalas that inhabit in the Gold Coast, in Queensland State, where the disease has affected up to 40 per cent of these animals. So Nigeria to a small group of koalas and placed them a collar to monitor their movements before releasing them again in their habitat. Timms believes that if its vaccine is successful...