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  1. Measuring Singapore's mental well-being: Economic prosperity no longer the best indicator of societal happiness http://is.gd/52h2K
  2. Singapore's greener but is it cleaner? http://is.gd/52h1d
  3. Divers saw FOUR seahorses on a dive at Pulau Hantu today! Amazingly, sunny skies all day long!
  4. Beautiful red skies over the west. Look out the window if u're anywhere between Tiong Bahru and Queenstown.
  5. Just learned that reindeer can travel over 5000 miles per year! The longest migration of any land animal!
  6. Ok, found out 'Finnish biz rep' was a rep from Neste Oil Corp. Was rather defensive and answered some Qs directed at PM.
  7. Main challenges will be in enabling developing nations access and implementation of clean tech. - Shreekant Gupta
  8. Finnish biz rep believes fuel crops will address fuel needs for vehicles including planes in near future.
  9. Austrian ambassador asks a qstn abt palm oil. Finnish biz rep says Energy sector is not main consumer of palm oil.
  10. Clean tech innovation will only address abt 1/3 of global emissions. Attitudes of nations & corporations more impt.
  11. Nuclear energy is a part of the climate change solution but it's not part of the global solution. - Vanhanen
  12. Q&A session was usurped by a business rep from the Finnish clean tech sector who garbled his name and read monotously.
  13. Innovations that can be applied at village lvl in developing nations necessary. Need to encourage r&d in dvlping ctries.
  14. Qstn: Will Finland play a role in improving access by developing nations to intellectual property wrt clean tech?
  15. Most impt result we need from Copenhagen is global financial commitment to clean tech and r&d for solutions. - Vanhanen
  16. Governments have the responsibility of creating access to green tech by businesses, pte sector & communities - Vanhanen
  17. Clean tech market was relatively unscathed by global economic crisis bcos it's services are in huge demand. - Vanhanen
  18. Nations need to develop a policy framework that encourages clean tech creativity, innovation and action - Vanhanen
  19. Finland has the largest number of employees invested in the research and development of renewable energy technology.
  20. Challenges will create a huge market for innovative, 'green' technology. - Vanhanen.