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According to the latest Red List of Threatened Species, 25% of all mammals are seen to be at serious risk of extinction. The report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUNC) The overall ...
French energy company Total detected (30 March) the source of gas leaking from a platform in the North Sea, which has caused fears of subsequent explosions and impacted significantly upon the organization’s market value ...
“Artificial light in the environment must be considered a chronic impairment of habitat...While lamp efficiency and consideration of SPD (spectral power distribution) are significant accomplishments, true night sky friendly lighting can still only be ...
Water, David L. Feldman, Polity $39.95. Water is required by every living thing, yet a growing number of people face difficulties accessing it. Climate change, urbanization, pollution, energy use, agriculture, population growth, and migration ...
The number of international tourists is expected to rise to 1.8 billion by 2030, according to a new UN report, with emerging economies responsible for the highest growth rates. While the report by the ...
The 2011 UNDP Human Development Report presents evidence that power imbalances and gender inequalities are linked to reduced access to improved water and sanitation, land degradation and deaths from air pollution. The report states that ...
A new UN-commissioned report warns that unless checked, environmental hazards could curb or even halt the good progress being made to raise developing nations out of poverty. The UNDP (UN Development Program) released its 2011 ...
New active design practices promoting physical activity and wellbeing are becoming a key strategy for tackling chronic non-communicable diseases caused by sedentary lifestyles. Walking the streets of Manhattan, one cannot fail to be struck by ...
Check out if Global Footprint Network is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Measuring human ecological impact. 57 national governments engaged. According to Global Footprint Network’s Mathis Wackernagel, ‘humanity is living off its ...
Shaping the future of sustainable capitalism. HQ location: United States. Judging by the direction of contemporary debate, it can appear at times that the environment and sustainability have fallen off the edge of the map ...
Conservation through social marketing HQ Location: United States According to Rare, conservation ultimately comes down to people – their behavior toward nature, their belief about its value and their ability to protect it without sacrificing basic ...
First, it was green jobs and cap-and-trade legislation that fell by the wayside. Then in August the U.S. State Department said it would allow the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that would bring tar sands ...
Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale, by Tom Wilber, Cornell University Press, €20.95, $27.95. Nobody wants dead fish in ponds, contaminated drinking water that makes people sick ...
Check out if A.P.E. is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Cleaning the streets of Cairo. 27 years of community empowerment. To be a garbage collector in Cairo is to be born ...
Photo: During the afternoon plenary with Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO and Chairperson; Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director; Tim Kasten, UNEP; INC Chair Fernando Lugris, Uruguay; Jacob Duer, INC Team Coordinator, UNEP; Masa Nagai, UNEP; and ...
At only 22 years old, Taha Bawa (left) – together with his brother, Omar – is the founder of web platform Endignorance. The two Geneva-based university students saw a challenge: new and old media alike inform the ...
Indexes can serve as useful tools to compare many aspects of our lives. The ‘gross domestic product’ (GDP) calculates the wealth of states; the UN Development Program’s ‘human development index’ (HDI) ranks populations’ lifestyles ...
Jean-Michel Sévérino, the former head of both the French development agency as well as a Regional Director of the World Bank, sat down with The Global Journal to discuss the future of the ...
Government officials, investors and technology experts met in Geneva at the third European Future Energy Forum (EFEF) to discuss the future of clean energy with most participants agreeing that such technologies are already available today ...
At the UN Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro, which ends tomorrow, more than 50,000 participants from civil societies or the private sector, 191 speakers, 81 heads of state or government ...
The fifth and final round of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention opened today in Geneva. The final meeting of the International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5) is taking place until Friday ...
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