Wal-Mart, which partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund on this project, tapped solar installer SolarCity of Foster City, Calif. to handle the installation.

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The policy brief is being released concurrently with the first major report on the governance of geoengineering by the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative of the Royal Society, Environmental Defense Fund and TWAS (the academy of sciences for the developing world).

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The logistical challenges involved in sustaining military operations in remote areas where wars are commonly waged has convinced the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy a growing number of cutting-edge solar-energy technologies in off-grid combat zones.

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