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• The Environmental Issues – Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach.

  
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  Nature and Animal Conservation        Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1… ...
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• Meet Brazilian Larissa Ramos - Miss Earth 2009

  
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  London, Nov 24 (ANI): Forget make-up and pretty dresses, sexy Brazilian lass Larissa Ramos, named Miss Earth 2009, has more serious issues on her mind.The 19-year-old beauty is quite concerned about issues like air pollution, water pollution, recycling and land erosion. Alejandra Pedrajas of Spain, Sandra Seifert of ...
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• Looming climate change adds even more stress to humanitarian aid

  
  TerraCurve.com: Go beyond green. | Responsible travel news, places, people and events. — Authority: 126
  With climate change-related disasters frequently occurring throughout the world, humanitarian aid organizations are struggling to keep pace with the increasing demands of affected communities. According to reps for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), climate change is a ...
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• U.N. Report Calls for More Environmental Protection in Wartime

  
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  A report released this month by the United Nations Environment Program and the Environmental Law Institute says that existing international laws are not sufficient.
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• GREEN ENERGY ON RISE ACROSS AFRICA (UNNews)

  
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  Read at : UNNewsGREEN ENERGY ON RISE ACROSS AFRICA BUT STILL LAGS BEHIND OTHER REGIONS – UNNew York, Nov 17 2009 12:05PMMore green energy and climate-friendly projects target Africa than ever before, but the numbers still lag behind Asia and Latin America, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced ...
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• Resource: Benefit sharing perspectives from enterprising communities

  
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  Learning from the practitioners: benefit sharing perspectives from enterprising communities M.S. Suneetha and Balakrishna Pisupati, UNEP/UNU-IAS , October 2009 Launched on the margins of ABS 8, this study uses an analytical framework to take a closer look at benefit sharing by focusing on inter- and ...
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• This week in review … 2009 SEED Awards

  
  Traditional Knowledge Bulletin — Authority: 128
  Grassroots initiatives from Bangladesh to Zimbabwe are the Gold Winners of the 2009 SEED Awards UNEP press release , 10 November 2009 NAIROBI, KENYA: Outstanding social and environmental projects from Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Colombia, Southern Africa, India and Niger are the winners of the 2009 Gold Awards. The ...
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• UNEP in on ‘Clean Green’ New Zealand Scam

  
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  UNEP dishonestly promoting New Zealand as “clean and green” despite common knowledge You can expect tourism pimps like  Condé Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet and Virgin Holidays promoting New Zealand as a top holiday destination, despite the road kills, extreme violence and pollution, and in the face of the ...
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• Small Country, Big ‘Dirty Little Secret’

  
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  Thanks to Blogger TEAA for the News Alert, and Kudos to Fred Pearce for a very readable report.New Zealand: More cows than people!“It looks like the rest of the world is catching on to New Zealand’s dirty little secret.”—NZ Green Party co-leader Russel Norman“But my prize for the most shameless two fingers ...
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• Science Podcast, 13 November 2009

  
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  Climate change predictions; the function of telomeres; creating hermaphroditic worms; overcoming the challenges to become a scientist; and more.
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• Enabling rural people to reverse the process of desertification through sustainable land management (Gen News / LADA / FAO / UNEP)

  
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  Here is an interesting publication, mentioning some success stories in the combat of desertification and ways to improve sustainable land management :“Productivity through a combination of rainwater harvesting practices (such as the use of microcatchments), application of compost or manure to improve soil fertility ...
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• Himalayan Blunder!!!

  
  What's With The Climate? — Authority: 124
  By Devinder Sharma Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh loves to challenge the dominant opinion (except in the case of Genetically Modified crops). Whether it is the stand India should take at the forthcoming Copenhagen conference or the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, he enjoys throwing a stone in the still waters ...
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• Sudan: UN helps southern clean up disease-causing waste in the South

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 475
  Some 16,000 volunteers will take to the streets of Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, next month in a United Nations programme to tackle health hazards caused by public dumping of waste in a rapidly growing metropolitan area that has endured repeated fatal outbreaks of cholera, water-borne diseases and malaria. The ...
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• Sudan: UN helps southern clean up disease-causing waste in the South

  
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  Some 16,000 volunteers will take to the streets of Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, next month in a United Nations programme to tackle health hazards caused by public dumping of waste in a rapidly growing metropolitan area that has endured repeated fatal outbreaks of cholera, water-borne diseases and malaria. The ...
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• Feeding the world without harming it (IRINNews)

  
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  Read at : IRINNewsGLOBAL: Feeding the world without harming it CAPE TOWN, 3 November 2009 (IRIN) – Countries with growing populations can boost food production without punishing the environment if they are willing to experiment with less harmful farming practices, experts at a recent conference on biodiversity ...
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• Resource: Bio-cultural community protocols

  
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  Bio-cultural Community Protocols – A Community Approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy Kabir Bavikatte and Harry Jonas (eds), UNEP, Natural Justice , October 2009 This book illustrates the application of bio-cultural community protocols to a range of environmental legal frameworks. ...
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• All aboard the month-long Climate Change Express to Copenhagen

  
  TerraCurve.com: Go beyond green. | Responsible travel news, places, people and events. — Authority: 126
  With the Copenhagen conference quickly on its way, a new and one-time train link between Kyoto and Copenhagen has just opened for traffic. Sponsored by the United Nations , the Climate Change Express is a one-month, 9,000-kilometer journey that symbolically joins the site of the last global warming pact with what is ...
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• Satinder Bindra: It’s the message, stupid (and never mind the UN branding)!

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 123
  Satinder Bindra left active journalism a couple of years ago when he joined the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as its Director of the Division of Communications and Public Information (DCPI) based at UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi. But thank goodness he still thinks and acts like a journalist.Satinder, whom I first met ...
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• MEA Bulletin – Issue No. 79

  
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  IISD RS is pleased to announce that the newest issue of MEABulletin is now available.MEA Bulletin is a publication created by the InternationalInstitute for Sustainable Development (IISD), incooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme’sDivision of Environmental Law and Conventions (UNEP DELC).The guest ...
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• Africa Investor Conference – Cape Town International Convention Centre – UNEP

  
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