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Colombia’s October directive asks public bodies to connect audits, consumption records, funding and maintenance. It preserves different responsibilities for owned and rented premises while treating water savings and continuity of essential services as related operating concerns.
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China’s adopted HFC allocation scheme keeps national quota totals unchanged for 2027 while specifying how companies obtain and adjust their allowances.
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Wales is consulting on making undergrounding the starting point for new devolved 11–132kV electricity circuits.
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Brazil’s ANA has changed the timetable for proving one governance requirement for sanitation regulators.
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Chile’s environmental regulator reports a record quarterly value of approved projects.
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Surabaya cleared illegal waste activity from seven municipal sites in October while offering compliant operators help with formalization.
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France’s adopted hornet-control plan organizes responses around local pressure and selective methods.
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Japan’s new nature survey synthesis brings decades of observations into one account of ecological change.
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France has authorized urgent ADEME intervention at the liquidated Fibre Excellence Provence mill in Tarascon.
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Umbria’s assembly has unanimously directed the regional government to create an integrated Blue Deal.
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