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• Himalayan Blunder!!!

  
  What's With The Climate? — Authority: 463
  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 ...
  20 hours ago

• Sudan: UN helps southern clean up disease-causing waste in the South

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 133
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Sudan: UN helps southern clean up disease-causing waste in the South

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Feeding the world without harming it (IRINNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Resource: Bio-cultural community protocols

  
  Traditional Knowledge Bulletin — Authority: 129
  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. ...
  1 week ago

• All aboard the month-long Climate Change Express to Copenhagen

  
  TerraCurve.com: Go beyond green. | Responsible travel news, places, people and events. — Authority: 125
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Satinder Bindra: It’s the message, stupid (and never mind the UN branding)!

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 124
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• MEA Bulletin – Issue No. 79

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Africa Investor Conference – Cape Town International Convention Centre – UNEP

  
  myphotographer — Authority: 112
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• Daily Sprout

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 663
  Cap and Trade’s Biggest Losers: A new report by energy consultants Wood Mackenzie finds “cap-and-trade legislation will cost U.S. refiners about $100 billion a year by 2015 and put them at a competitive disadvantage to refiners in Europe.” — WSJ’s Environemental Capital Bright Automotive Bags $1.4M ...
  2 weeks ago

• UN Questions Green Credentials of Biofuels

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 522
  Biofuel usage has increased considerably in recent years, mostly driven by government mandates to find cleaner fuel options. But a new UN report brings into question how environmentally friendly these biofuels actually are. The report , from the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) International Panel ...
  2 weeks ago

• World Water Council: UN agencies join board despite activist lobby

  
  WASH Names in the News — Authority: 103
  Three UN agencies, UNESCO, FAO and UN-HABITAT, have been elected on the new Board of Governors of the World Water Council (WWC), organisers of the World Water Forum (WWF). Activists see the election as a reaction to their own lobby to get the United Nations to organise the next World Water Forum instead of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.N. Study Urges Caution on Biofuels

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  A study from the United Nations Environment Program calls for a reconsideration of current biofuel mandates.
  2 weeks ago

• Financing change – can the Roundtable in Cape Town deliver hope before Copenhagen?

  
  Climatico — Authority: 118
  With hopes fading for a comprehensive climate treaty as the clock ticks down to Copenhagen, increasing focus will be placed on interim measures and incremental agreements that can be formalised at Copenhagen.   Coming just six weeks before the summit, the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative ( UNEP ...
  3 weeks ago

• George Ou & Bret Swanson on Berkman Broadband Report

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 586
  Last night here on the TLF , Bret Swanson raised a number of objections with this FCC-commissioned report about international broadband comparisons, which was conducted by some folks at Harvard University’s Berkman Center. Meanwhile, over at the Digital Society blog, George Ou also offers a hard-nosed look at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Growing palm oil for biodiesel can generate 2,000 percent more GHGs than fossil fuels.”

  
  Biofuels Digest Biofuels DIgest — Authority: 617
  From Greenbang : “ Growing palm oil for biodiesel not only not only contributes to the deforestation of tropical peatlands , but can end up generating as much as 2,000 per cent more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).” From ...
  3 weeks ago

• As Production Shifts from First to Third World, UN Study Says Biofuel Research is Lacking

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 548
  Marketed as a "green" energy source, in recent years biofuel use has increased around the world. Global ethanol production tripled between 2000 and 2007, increasing from 17 billion to more than 52 million liters. Biodiesel expanded 11-fold, from less than 1 billion to almost 11 billion liters. And these fuels together ...
  3 weeks ago

• UN Plans Low Carbon Economy Center For Tianjin

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 431
  Khalid Malik, the United Nations systems coordinator for China, has disclosed to local media that the UN hopes to set up a low carbon economy development center in Tianjin to address issues related to a low carbon economy and environmental protection.Malik said that the UN hoped to carry out in depth cooperation with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copenhagen Summit: Children get a say on climate change

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  In the run up to the UN Copenhagen Climate a new campaign called Consider US gives young people a voice.
  3 weeks ago

• Is UNEP Another Corrupt UN Program for the North Koreans to Exploit?

  
  ROK Drop — Authority: 584
  Looks like another North Korean cash cow to me: South Korea’s Ministry of Environment last month provided 961 million won ($830,300) to help an international body resolve environmental problems in North Korea, the JoongAng Ilbo has learned. According to the ministry, the payment was made to the United ...
  3 weeks ago

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