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Welcome to I&O Forum — and our new blog platform!

I'm here in London preparing for Day 1 of our Infrastructure & Operations Forum in London.

I'll be taking the stage just two hours from now to kickoff the event, so it's only fitting that we also launch our new blog platform today

Enviance launches an EPA reporting solution

Environmental ERP software provider Enviance has announced the launch of its 60-day Greenhouse Gas (GHG) FastTrack program designed to help companies comply with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) air emissions reporting

Dutch capital to be put on trial over ICoast waste dump

A man pointing to his unusable fields near a warning for a toxic zone in 2007, still unsafe one year after the discovery of hundreds of tonnes of dumped toxic waste near Abidjan. The city of Amsterdam is to be prosecuted over the dumping of toxic waste by a ship in Ivory Coast in 2006, the Supreme Court has ruled in a decision made available Wednesday.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)AFP – The city of Amsterdam is to be prosecuted over the dumping of toxic waste by a ship in Ivory Coast in 2006, the Supreme Court has ruled in a decision made available Wednesday.

Sarkozy calls for UN reform, blasts Copenhagen summit

A view of a deforested area on the border of Xingu river in the Amazon rainforest, northern Brazil. French President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded reforms of the United Nations and urged negotiations under a small group of countries to accelerate efforts to fight climate change.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)AFP – French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday demanded reforms of the United Nations and urged negotiations under a small group of countries to accelerate efforts to fight climate change.

EU Says It Will Back Bluefin Tuna Trade Ban – And Then There Was Japan…

bluefin tuna sushi photo
photo: Yusuke Kawasaki via flickr.

The US has agreed to back an international ban on trade in critically endangered bluefin tuna, and now the European Union nations will do so as well, with Malta being the only dissenting vote. That still leaves us with Japan, which consumes about 80% of the world’s bluefin tuna, saying it won’t participate when <a href="http://www.cites.org/…Read the full story on TreeHugger