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A Biodiversity Map, Version 2.0

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Tigers and pandas live in Asia, kangaroos and koalas in Australia and polar bears and snowy owls in the Arctic. The world can be divided into regions based upon the unique types of animals that live there. Or so the thinking went when Alfred Russel Wallace published the scientific world’s first global biodiversity map in 1876.

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Biotechnology rules

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Biotechnology rules

Biotechnology rules

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Monday, August 20, 2012

Biotechnology rules, not even a topic twenty years ago, have been made a pressing global issue by the spectacular explosion of discoveries in recent years. Yet biotechnology is still in its infancy, so far bringing up many more questions and possibilites than answers and outcomes.

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International labor and migration rules

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International labor and migration rules

International labor and migration rules

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Friday, August 17, 2012

The new world economy force demands more attention to the labor rules national economies apply-as they ineract more and more with eachother. The demographic force throws in a series of migration-related issues. It is hard to imagine the world twenty years from now not having some sort of global labor market rules in place-because such a market is clearly in the making.

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E-commerce rules

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E-commerce rules

E-commerce rules

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

It is hard to do justice to the variety and complexity of e-commerce issues in so little space. The main point is the urgency of solving this emerging global issue fast.-while it is still in its infancy.

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Intellectual Property Rights

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Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights

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Monday, August 13, 2012

The protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has changed over the last two decades from an obscure national regulaiton issue to a hotly debated global issue. It's a very complex issue to summarize, as there are quite a few strands. These strands should give a sense of the urgency of moving to global solutions fpr this complex issue of IPRs.

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Trade, investment and competition rules

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Friday, August 10, 2012

This global issue is a cause celebre, if only because protest movements have chosen to concentrate on it so much more than on the other issues. It comprises one urgent ones, global investment and competition rules. Some people like to jumble them all up, but that just adds to the confusion.

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