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Is Rising Wealth In Asia Driving Overexploitation Of World's Fish Stocks?

AP | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: World Fish Stock, Video, Fishing Subsidies, U.N. Environment Programme, Asia Fish Stock, Exploit Fish Stock, Unep, Green News

MANILA, Philippines -- Rising wealth in Asia and fishing subsidies are among factors driving overexploitation of the world's fish resources, while fis...

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Get It Done! Youth to UN on Internationally Binding Climate Treaty

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Climate Negotiations, Unep, Pablo Solon, Durban, Iea, Institute for Policy Studies, Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, China, Todd Stern, Climate Change, Michael Dorsey, Kyoto Protocol, Friends of the Earth, Ldcs, Unfccc, India, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, US, Nnimmo Bassey, Aosis, Global Warming, Green News
Tina Gerhardt

As the sun had risen in Durban, the Durban Platform was passed at the COP 17. Yet in a replay of Copenhagen two years ago, backroom texts emerged at the 11th hour and the process was thrown into disarray.

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Global Phase-out of Lead in Gasoline Succeeds: Major Victory for Kids' Health

Peter Lehner | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Lead, Gas, Gasoline, World Health Organization, United Nations, Clean Cars, Unep, Brain Damage, Leaded Gasoline, Clean Energy, Diesel, Air Pollution, Nairobi, North Korea, Children, Children's Health, Green News
Peter Lehner

Even small amounts of lead can lower a child's IQ level and shorten attention span. Children with lead in their blood are also more likely to become aggressive, violent and delinquent.

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Happy Ozone Day: Looking to the Past for a Stable Climate Future

Dan Worth | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Rio, Unced, Our Common Future, Inece, Igsd, Ozone Diplomacy, Climate Change, Ozone, Unep, Durwood Zaelke, Green News
Dan Worth

As we stand a little over three months away from the end of the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period, the world finds itself with no internationally binding agreement.

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Report Urges World To Secure Drinking Water Access

AP | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Water Access, Video, Drinking Water Access, Water Pollution, Water, Green-Living, Nature, Unep, Clean Water, Green Economy, Water Supply, Drinking Water, Green News

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Investing as little as 0.16 percent of the world's gross domestic product – or $198 billion per year – could give half a billion...

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Renewable Energy Keeps Growing: Earth Summit in Rio Provides Opportunity for More Action

Jake Schmidt | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Unep, Rio, India, Renewableinvestments, Climate, Brazil, Rio+20, Bloombergnewenergyfinance, Renewablecapacity, Earthsummit, Globalwarming, Africa, Renewableenergy, rioplus20, Unfccc, China, Ren21, Green News
Jake Schmidt

Next year at the Earth Summit, countries and companies have a chance to build upon momentum by committing to deeper actions to spur renewable energy deployment. This is an important opportunity that shouldn't be missed.

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UN Climate Negotiations: Denmark and Bolivia Present Their Emissions Reductions

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Unep, Cop 16, Unfccc, Bolivia, Cancun Climate Summit, Oxfam, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cop17, Denmark, Carbon Market, Aosis, Global Warming, Eu, Green News
Tina Gerhardt

Bonn, Germany -- On Thursday, specific nations presented their work to reduce emissions. Thursday morning, Canada, the EU, the Alliance of Small Islan...

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United Nations Environment Programme Launches Emissions Gap Report

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unep, Reducing Emissions, Climate Change, Copenhagen Accord, Unfccc, Emissions, Aosis, Global Warming, Green News
Tina Gerhardt

Cancún, Mexico - Yesterday afternoon, United Nations Environment Programme released the Emissions Gap Report, which seeks to assess how we are doing ...

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COP 16: Breakout Groups

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unep, La-via-Campesina, President Obama, Cop 16, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Emissions, Bill Mckibben, Unfccc, Cancun Climate Summit, Global Warming, Cancun Climate Talk, Green News
Tina Gerhardt

As thousands of people marched on the COP-16 climate summit to condemn the false solutions and backroom deals being pushed in the negotiations, solidarity actions unfolded in over 100 cities around the world.

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High Level Negotiations Kick Off

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Unep, Climate Change, Copenhagen Accord, Kyoto Protocol, g20, Environment, Cop 16, Todd Stern, Unfccc, United States, China, Global Warming, Green News
Tina Gerhardt

It remains to be seen what emerges from the negotiations in the days to come.

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Cancún Opens for GREEN Business, but REDD Will Destroy Indigenous Forest Cultures

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undp, Unfao, Unep, cop16, Cancun Climate Conference, Subhankar Banerjee, Shell, Forest, Indigenous Communities, Beaufort Sea, REDD+, Redd, Unfcc, Indigenous Environmental Network, Human Rights, Climate Change, Green News, Chukchi Sea, Global Forest Coalition, Deforestation, Gwich'in Steering Committee, Global Warming, Green News
Subhankar Banerjee

How would anyone who is supporting REDD feel if they're evicted from their home -- it's been happening a lot in U.S. with the real-estate collapse and no one likes it. So why would we support REDD?

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Pledged International Emissions Cuts Aren't Enough

AP | MATTI HUUHTANEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Unep, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Copenhagen Accord, Climate Talks, Cancun Climate Summit, Global Warming Targets, Emission Goals, Climate Change, Green News

HELSINKI — Emissions cuts pledged by countries in a nonbinding climate accord last year fall short of what's needed to avoid the worst consequen...

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Natural Value at Bargain Prices

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Environment Program, Poverty, Water, Nagoya, Unep, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Watershed, Environment, UN Environment Programme, Climate Change, Forests, Coral Reefs, World News
Kiyotaka Akasaka

2010 was supposed to be the year that the world reversed the loss of biodiversity. Countries have failed to reach this target, however, and species a...

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Biodiversity Loss Continues Unabated Despite International Efforts

John F. Bruno | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecosystems, Science, Overfishing, Extinction, Unep, Convention on Biological Diversity, Biodiversity, Green News
John F. Bruno

As we recently reported in Science magazine, biodiversity has continued to decline over the past four decades. This is largely due to increased pressures resulting from human population economic growth.

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What's Up With the Rainforest: More Hope, Less Blame

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rainforest, Activism, Earth Day, Bianca Jagger, Unep, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Rainforest Alliance, James Boyce, Green News
James Boyce

While corporations have jumped on the eco-bandwagon, we'd like to call attention to the unsung heroes who have shown a dedication to environmentalism, not driven by profit or personal gain.

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Greening the Blue

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ban Ki-Moon, Climate Change, Unep, United Nations, Kyoto Protocol, Environment, UN Environment Programme, Travel, Co2, Greenhouse, Un, Energy, Climate, UN World Environment Day, Emissions, Global Warming, World News
Kiyotaka Akasaka

This year, the UN is launching a new public web site that records the carbon footprint of just about every UN agency. The first step in solving a problem is figuring out its true scope and being transparent about it.

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COP15 in Copenhagen Critical as Tipping Points Reached; Global Rise of 6.3 Degrees Now Forecast

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Susan Solomon, cop15, Unep, Climate Week Nyc, James Hansen, Climate Change, Bill Mckibben, Global Warming, Ecolypse, Green News
Jerry Cope

COP15 may very well be the last chance for the world to reach a consensus on measures to reduce GHG emissions and avoid climate chaos for the next millennium.

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Trinidad Journal: Drummit2Summit Launches Sustainability First Initiative

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unep, Water and Sewage Authority, Truth Drummers, Gary Aboud, Environment Sustainability, Wayne Kubalsingh, Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning, St. James Amphitheatre, Morris Deonarine, Michael Parris, Barack Obama, Play for Change, Commonwealth Heads of Government, Anti-Poverty Measures, Cathal Healy-Singh, Fifth Summit of the Americas, Sustainability First, Sustainability First Initiative, Poverty, United Nations Environment Programme, Trinidad, Wasa, Chogm, Drummit2summit, World News
Arlene M. Roberts

Faced with the prospect of rapidly depleting natural resources globally, there are renewed calls to find alternate sources of energy an...

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Darfur Conflict Ravages Environment

Reuters | Andrew Heavens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UNEP, Khartoum, Green News, U.N., Darfur, Environment, Logging, Kunduwa Forest, Sudan, Darfur Sudan, Forests, Deforestation, Green News

Sudan's Darfur conflict has devastated the environment in the region, stripping forests and destroying farmland, according to a U.N. report. People c...

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