I work with the United Nations Environment Programme and see tremendous  opportunity in Calais-type technologies as means for helping "join up" the diverse and dispersed and ambiguous concepts that are found at the interface between environmental science and the political domain. What we do not have is the type of R&D budget that would be required to develop and implement the ontological model that would be needed to grow Calais into this domain.

 So what I am curious about is the extent to which Thomson Reuters would have an interest in under-writing such an effort, not just on behalf of UNEP but rather the whole domain addressing environment-driven and environment-related matters, which of course leads us into areas such as the current food-or-fuel debate around crops being used for bio-fuels. UNEP would bring to the table previous experience with developing semantics and taxonomies for environmental terms through products such as the ENVOC and the GEMMET thesauri.

Thanks for your consideration.