Word: sven
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...attitude should hearten China's womb police, who have spent two decades attempting to control the nation's population. They have succeeded remarkably well. Today the average Chinese woman has two children, compared with six 30 years ago. "For all the bad press, China has achieved the impossible," says Sven Burmester, the U.N. Population Fund representative in Beijing. "The country has solved its population problem...
...Germany is investigating the possibilties of wind power, too. "The North Sea is a gigantic reservoir for wind energy," says Sven Teske, energy expert with Greenpeace Germany. "With the construction of offshore wind plants, Germany can contribute greatly to climate protection." The Germans already generate 2.5% of their electricity from wind energy, sparing the atmosphere 4.8 million tons of CO2 a year. A study carried out by Greenpeace and the German Institute for Wind Energy in Wilhelmshaven found that CO2 reductions could reach 12 million tons a year by 2005 if offshore wind plants were used. In all, some...