Showing posts with label Drought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drought. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

The Effect of Drought on Business

According to Chemical Business NewsBase Wednesday, December 31, 2008 the
Australian biotech market has had recent difficulties securing capital due to the global recession. Many desalination and other green projects have been put at risk. There are about 130 listed life science companies in Australia and an estimated 420 private companies. In 2008, two companies, Apollo Life Sciences and Portland Orthopaedics entered administration.

Thus, although green strategies can help to overcome the effects of climate change the effect of the global downturn has an even more marked effect.

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Rough Guide to the Future



Recent addition to stock in the LRC. This book may be relevant to AMP groups looking at Climate Change ( particularly water shortages ) and the effect on the business of the future. We found lots of research on desalination when we looked at this topic earlier in the week.