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Major academic-industry collaboration to tackle global challenges in sustainability
The University of Oxford joins a major new collaboration with academia and industry to use sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero carbon emissions.
The Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST) is a unique £17m facility hosted by the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) that will accelerate the translation of sustainable chemical technology research to help tackle the global challenges of the climate emergency, sustainable development and plastics pollution.
It brings together industry with expertise at the Universities of Bath and Oxford, the High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s Sustainability Partnership (National Composites Centre and Centre for Process Innovation), innovation experts at SETsquared, Local Enterprise Partnerships and investors.
Vaccine solidarity a major focus as PM Modi holds virtual summit with Finnish counterpart Geeta Mohan
India and Finland on Tuesday held wide ranging discussions during a virtual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart Sanna Marin which lasted just under an hour.
This was the first interaction between the two Prime Ministers since the Finnish Prime Minister assumed office in 2019.
Both the leaders underlined that the longstanding close relations between India and Finland were based on shared values of democracy, rule of law, equality, and respect for human rights. They reaffirmed their strong commitment to work for multilateralism, a rules-based international order, Sustainable Development Goals and to combat climate change.
THE HEADLINES ⦁ India and Finland will work towards multilateralism, rules-based international order and sustainable development. ⦁ Portugal fully supports India’s permanent membership at UN security council says President of the Inter Parliamentary Union. ⦁ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces visit to India in April. ⦁ US says it is against any unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the East China Sea. ⦁ In Cricket, England chase a target of 157 runs against India in the third T-20 at Ahmedabad.
WN-PM FINLAND Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday emphasised that both Finland and India believe in a rules-based, transparent, humanitarian and democratic global order. Prime Minister Modi and his Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin discussed the entire gamut of bilateral issues as well as other regional and multilateral issues of mutual interest during the virtual summit.