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SINGAPORE – Letting Go.

SINGAPORE & JAPAN – ASLAN Pharmaceuticals Announces First Patient Enrolled in Phase 1 Study of Varlitinib in Japan.

JAPAN & UNITED STATES – Santen and twoXAR Announce Strategic Research Collaboration to Discover New Glaucoma Treatments.

UNITED STATES – New Study Finds Extensive Use of Fluorinated Chemicals in Fast Food Wrappers.

UNITED STATES – What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger.

UNITED STATES – Non-Invasive Test Offers Quick Skin Cancer Diagnosis.

UNITED STATES – Life Under Pressure.

AUSTRALIA & THAILAND – Commencement of BIT225 Phase 2 HIV-1 Clinical Trial.

CANADA – Understanding the Genetics of Human Height.

TAIWAN – TLC Announces Collaboration with CMUH in Exploring Solutions for Unmet Medical Needs in Oncology and Osteoarthritis.

Some people think that carbon and sustainable development are not compatible. This textbook shows that carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air and bio-carbon from biomass are our best allies in the energy transition, towards greater sustainability. We pose the problem of the decarbonation (or decarbonization) of our economy by looking at ways to reduce our dependence on fossil carbon (coal, petroleum, natural gas, bitumen, carbonaceous shales, lignite, peat). The urgent goal is to curb the exponential increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and hydrosphere (Figures 1.1 and 1.2) that is directly related to our consumption of fossil carbon for our energy and materials The goal of the Paris agreement (United Nations COP 21, Dec. 12, 2015) of limiting the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees (compared to the pre-industrial era, before 1800) is becoming increasingly unattainable (Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), report of Aug. 6, 2021). On Aug. 9, 2021 Boris Johnson, prime minister of the United Kingdom, declared that coal needs to be consigned to history to limit global warming. CO₂ has an important social cost…