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Shipping sector may accept price on CO2 emissions

2011-11-29T11:30:22Z

The world shipping industry could accept a global levy on carbon emissions from merchant ships under a deal that would also channel proceeds to poor countries, according to an announcement at the UN climate talks on Tuesday.

Maritime transport accounts for roughly three percent of world emissions of greenhouse gases.

But, like the aviation industry, it does not have any targeted curbs on this pollution, an omission t...

Shipping industry sees price on carbon emissions

2011-11-29T05:30:38Z

Maritime transport accounts for roughly three percent of world emissions of greenhouse gases.

But, like the aviation industry, it does not have any targeted curbs on this pollution, an omission t...

DR Congo seeks to keep its green lung breathing

2011-11-07T09:00:56Z

Forest conservation is a major challenge for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world's second biggest green lung after the Amazon, amid a paucity of energy production and renewable alternatives.

The country's massive tropical forest, four times the size of France, covers some 1.55 million square kilometres (600,000 square miles...

Nigeria sets up body to review UN oil pollution findings

2011-08-17T17:30:14Z

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday created a special body to review UN findings on extensive oil pollution in the Ogoniland region and propose remedies, a statement said.

The committee will "undertake a holistic review" of the United Nations Environmental Programme (Germany (Reuters) - Slowing deforestation and greater awareness of the value of standing trees may come too late to save the world's biggest rainforests, according to a global assessment of tropical forests published Tuesday.

Tropical forests are threatened by pressures to clear land to produce food and biofuels and to plant fa...

Low metal recycling threatens green economy: UN report

2011-05-26T13:30:33Z

Too much metal is being thrown away when it could be recycled, wasting an opportunity to save energy and risking shortages in materials used for new green technologies, a UN report warned Thursday.

In a landmark study, the first to outline the extent to which metals are collected, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP...

Too many conventions hurting environment: experts

2011-02-24T13:30:23Z

Growing environmental awareness over the past two decades has resulted in the adoption of a plethora of some 500 conventions, which paradoxically has hindered saving the planet, experts said Thursday.

The 100 or so environment ministers gathered this week in Nairobi under the auspices of the UN environment agency were unanimous in recognising the need ...

U.N. climate plans said too narrow to save forests

2011-01-23T16:30:07Z

OSLO (Reuters) - World efforts to slow deforestation should do more to address underlying causes such as rising demand for crops or biofuels, widening from a U.N. focus on using trees to fight climate change, a study said Monday.

It said a series of projects to protect forests had had limited ...

Acid Rain

2010-11-29T14:58:28Z

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Factors that affect erosion

2010-11-29T15:48:50Z

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Environmental issues discussed at Montgomery College

2010-11-29T15:40:35Z

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Concerns of the business manager in...

2010-11-29T15:03:46Z

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The best themes from past World Environment Days

2010-11-04T13:49:41Z

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Forestry takes center-stage at U.N. talks on nature

2010-10-26T05:30:17Z

NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - Delegates at a global U.N. meeting to preserve natural resources were on Tuesday trying to agree on ways to deploy about $4 billion in cash to help developing nations save tropical forests.

The talks in the Ja...

Deforestation takes center-stage at U.N. talks

2010-10-26T10:06:26Z

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Forestry takes centre-stage at U.N. talks on nature

2010-10-26T00:00:05Z

The talks in the Ja...

UN science panel urges ban on toxic pesticide

2010-10-19T06:00:42Z

UN science panel urges ban on widely used pesticide endosulfan that can cause nerve damage

A key U.N. science panel has urged governments to ban the widely used pesticide endosulfan that can cause nerve damage to humans and wildlife.

The 31 scientists on the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee want endosulfan placed on a list of chemicals that should be phased out of use.

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World needs urgent action to stop species loss: U.N.

2010-10-17T23:30:09Z

NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - The world cannot afford to allow nature's riches to disappear, the United Nations said on Monday at the start of a major meeting to combat losses in animal and plant species that underpin livelihoods an...

Trees For the World

2010-11-03T00:04:03Z

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Sustainable Living

2010-11-03T00:03:55Z

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Maya Khodave a rag picker, is attending a six-day UN convention on climate change

2010-11-03T00:15:47Z

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Going Green, Responsibly.

2010-11-03T00:03:33Z

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Pine Forest Destruction

2010-11-02T23:57:18Z

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What Is a Waste Management System?

2010-11-05T10:28:12Z

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New detailed map shows carbon in Peru's Amazon

2010-09-06T12:40:03Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new, highly detailed map of part of Peru's Amazon shows how much climate-warming carbon is stored there, and where cutting down vegetation has sent this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, scientists said on Monday.

The three-dimensional map could help clear the way for an international agreement to curb deforestation and fores...

Top Careers for Going Green

2010-11-02T15:52:04Z

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U.N. lists Kyoto plan B options if no climate deal

2010-09-10T14:51:43Z

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CREATING A MARKET FOR AVOIDED DEFORESTATION

2010-11-02T15:09:33Z

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'Arsenic in water poisoned 77 million Bangladeshis'

2010-06-20T04:15:47Z

Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported.

Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of deaths recorded in a study that monitored nearly 12,000 people in the Araihazar district of the capital Dhaka appear to have been caused by ...

The Green Way To Wealth

2010-10-05T13:51:27Z

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Actor Don Cheadle named goodwill ambassador for UN

2010-06-06T04:30:10Z

Actor Don Cheadle is named a goodwill ambassador for the UN's environmental program

Actor Don Cheadle has become a spokesman for the United Nations environment program.

He was appointed Saturday in Rwanda's capital as a U.N. Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador and vowed to fight climate change and p...

Rich countries to give $4bln to fight deforestation

2010-05-27T03:16:31Z

Rich countries will bring to about 4.0 billion US dollars the amount committed to fighting deforestation by 2012, 500 million more than committed to at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Norway said Thursday.

"We have reached around four billion dollars," Prime Minist...

Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years: UN

2010-05-17T20:15:48Z

The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned.

"If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out of fish," Pavan Sukhdev, head of the UN Environment Program's green economy initiative, told journalists in New York.

A Green E...

Oceans' fish could disappear in 40 years: UN

2010-05-17T14:15:48Z

The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned Monday.

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Rare earth metals recycling needed to power green tech

2010-10-27T07:21:56Z

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U.N. panel sees future shortage of specialty metals

2010-05-13T15:15:26Z

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Recycling rates for many specialty metals used in high-tech devices are so low -- often less than 1 percent -- that they may become unavailable in two to three decades, a U.N.-appointed panel said on Thursday.

The figure was disclosed as the U.N. Environmental Program (Reuters) - Talks to define a mechanism for global forest protection should not be rushed if it is to work efficiently and fairly, a panel of experts said on Tuesday.

Talks began in Paris last month to define an interim and global architecture for a financial incentive scheme to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation called REDD-plus.

"We know any sy...

World's iconic sites go dark to fight global warming

2010-06-12T09:53:54Z

From Sydney Harbor to the world's tallest tower in Dubai and the ancient pyramids, major landmarks went dark for an hour to join the battle against climate change.

But politics and commercial priorities meant that some well-known energy-guzzling monuments did not join the record 4,000 cities and 125 countries in Saturday night's fourth annual Earth Hour organised by the WWF.

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Lights out across Asia as world marks Earth Hour

2010-06-11T22:49:42Z

Monuments from Sydney's Opera House to Delhi's Red Fort went dark on Saturday for Earth Hour, a global power switch-off aimed at revitalising efforts against climate change.

Ferry horns blared across Sydney harbour in a noisy start to the energy-saving event, ...

Lights out across Asia as world begins Earth Hour

2010-03-27T10:15:49Z

Sydney's iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge went dark Saturday at the start of Earth Hour, followed by cities across Asia in a global switch-off aimed at revitalising efforts against climate change.

Harbour ferry horns blared to signal the energy-saving event, which is supported by 4,000 cities in a record 125 countries and includes 1,200 famous landmarks from the Harbour Bridge went dark along with millions of homes Saturday at the start of Earth Hour, a global switch-off aimed at revitalising efforts against climate change.

Harbour ferry horns blared to signal the energy-saving event, which is supported by 4,000 cities in a record 125 countries and includes 1,200 famous landmarks from the Forbi...

New rule cuts ship pollution around US, Canada

2010-10-27T15:10:06Z

UN agency OKs rule to cut air pollution from oceangoing ships off US, Canadian coasts

A United Nations agency that regulates the international shipping industry adopted a plan Friday to dramatically reduce air pollution from ships that sail within 200 nautical miles of the U.S. and Canadian coasts.

The decision by the UN global survey: gobbled up by farms and bugs, forests still disappearing, but not that fast

Ambitious planting programs in Asia and the United States have helped slow the global rate of deforestation but farmers are still cutting trees to clear land at an alarmingly high rate, a U.N. survey released Thursda...

Population growth should be curbed: conservationist Goodall

2010-03-24T05:16:16Z

Humans should have fewer babies to help the global battle against climate change, according to the renowned British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall.

Goodall, whose 1960s research on chimpanzees changed perceptions of relations between humans and animals, fears the controversial issue has slipped down the agenda in the debate about man's impact on the environment.

"It's very frustrating as people don't want...

Population growth should be curbed: UK conservationist

2010-03-24T05:16:14Z

Humans should have fewer babies to help the global battle against climate change, according to the renowned British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall.

"It's very frustrating as people don't want...

What is Soil Erosion?

2010-10-25T09:47:48Z

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"Green Laundry Detergents" that really are "Green"

2010-10-25T08:45:32Z

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UN warns of growing electronic waste mountains

2010-10-25T08:04:01Z

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Japan to propose detailed marine fuel levy plan

2010-04-16T07:37:42Z

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, one of the world's top shipping operators, will submit details of its proposal for an international levy on marine fuel ahead of a meeting of the U.N.'s shipping agency in March, a government official said on Friday.

Under the proposal, which was firs...

Forest plan gets ax at UN climate talks

2010-04-16T08:16:37Z

Plan to save world's forest falls victim to chaotic UN climate talks

A plan to protect the world's biologically rich tropical forests was shelved early Saturday after world leaders failed to agree on a binding deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Delegates scrapped plans for a comprehensive climate agreement that would have included the deal to pay poor countries to protect their forests. The pr...

US, 5 others pledge $3.5B to protect rainforests

2010-04-16T08:20:38Z

Forest-protection plan at UN talks boosted by $3.5 billion pledge from US, 5 other nations

Negotiators moved closer to a deal to protect the world's forests with a pledge from the United States and five other countries to spend $3.5 billion over the next three years to slow their destruction.

The plan to reduce and eventually reverse deforest...

US, 5 others pledge $3.5bn to protect rainforests

2010-04-16T08:21:10Z

Forest-protection plan at UN talks boosted by $3.5 billion pledge from US, 5 other nations

The plan to reduce and eventually reverse deforest...

Forest-CO2 scheme needs cash to save species: study

2010-04-16T08:42:05Z

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A U.N. carbon-payment scheme aimed at saving forests in poorer nations could push some species to extinction unless it is designed to spread investment across many countries, a study released on Friday shows.

The United Nations wants the scheme, called reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD), to be part of a broader ...

Asia governors endorse U.N. forest carbon scheme

2010-04-16T09:12:39Z

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Six provincial governors from Indonesia, Laos and the Philippines on Thursday backed an expanded U.N. scheme aimed at protecting and conserving forests in return for carbon credits.

In a joint s...

36 football fields deforested each minute: WWF

2010-04-16T09:41:57Z

The equivalent of 36 football fields are being stripped from the world's forests each minute, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a statement released here on Thursday.

The group, presenting its figures during a UN-organized World Forestry Congress held in the Argentine capital, called for "net deforestation of ...

Space agencies, Google seek ways to save forests

2010-04-16T09:44:31Z

OSLO (Reuters) - Space agencies and Google Inc are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming, the head of an international earth observation group said on Tuesday.

Deforestation from Brazil to Ivory Coast, residents of a village off the main city of Abidjan are still traumatised by untimely deaths they say are linked to poisoning.

"We are living on borrowed time," said Bienvenue Danho, who is in charge of waste disposal at Akouedo, northeast of Abidjan, about the 2006 spill that caused 15 deaths and countless infections, a...

I.Coast toxic dump still claiming lives, say locals

2010-04-16T10:14:19Z

Three years after a ship dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast, residents of a village off the main city of Abidjan are still traumatised by untimely deaths they say are linked to poisoning.

"We are living on borrowed time," said Bienvenue Danho, who is in charge of waste disposal at Akouedo, northeast of Abidjan, about the 2006 spill that caused 15 deaths and countless infections, a...

'Strong' evidence linking toxic ship to ICoast deaths: UN expert

2010-04-16T10:16:13Z

A UN expert has found "strong" evidence linking at least 15 deaths and several hospitalisations to pollution from a ship that dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast, contrary to claims from the firm that chartered the ship.

"This report finds that there is strong prima facie evidence that human rights violations occurred as a result of this incident," Okechukwu Ibeanu, w...

UN's Ban calls deforestation summit

2010-04-16T10:30:51Z

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he planned to bring together leaders of the world's most forested nations, including Brazil and Indonesia, for a meeting this month to discuss deforestation.

"I'm going to ask the leaders of the forest countries to meet" on September 22, he to...

Tree cover far bigger than expected on farms: study

2010-10-13T14:35:28Z

OSLO (Reuters) - Almost half of the world's farmland has at least 10 percent tree cover, according to a study on Monday indicating that farmers are far less destructive to carbon-storing forests than previously believed.

"The area revealed in this study is twice the size of the Amazon, and shows that farmers are protecting and planting trees spontaneously," UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Friday.

Biological systems, if responsibly managed, can absorb billions of tonnes of the dangerous carbon gases that fuel the greenhouse effec...

Modest carbon price could save Borneo forests: study

2010-04-16T11:57:14Z

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Tropical forests in Borneo under threat of conversion to palm oil plantations could be more profitable left standing if carbon credits were priced between $10 and $33 per tonne, a study has found.

Forests soak up vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide each year and are crucial in the fight to curb climate change.

Many governments and scien...

Chemical industry to work for more safety

2010-10-24T09:24:13Z

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G8 seeks stronger bodiversity commitments

2010-06-12T11:17:11Z

The environment ministers of rich and emerging nations Wednesday sought new commitments to stopping biodiversity loss even with resources hit hard by the global financial crisis.

Ministers from 16 leading economies were expected to agree a "Syracuse Charter" spelling out ways to reinforce and extend a goal first set in 2002 to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010.

The delegates will pledge "to ensure that the current deep economic c...

UN's State Of The World's Forests Reveals Deforestation Is Speeding Up

2010-10-23T22:17:47Z

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How to Green your Business

2010-10-21T11:11:54Z

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From Broadway to Empire State, New York goes dark

2010-04-16T15:59:41Z

From Broadway theaters to the Empire State Building, New York turned off its lights to play its part in "Earth Hour," a global call for action to combat climate change.

At 8:30 pm (0030 GMT), some of the most famous and most brightly lit buildings and landmarks in the world were plunged in darkness for an hour. Skyscrapers like Empire State and the UN endorses initiative to replant forests on Appalachia's mine-scalped mountaintops

Sam Adams laid his tools aside and gently pushed fresh dirt around an oak sapling he hopes one day will be part of a hardwood forest high above this Appalachian community.

He was one of about 70 people gathered in Bl...

Less Meat....Smaller Footprint

2010-10-26T12:09:16Z

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Green activists find new ally in US unions

2010-04-16T13:51:49Z

Strange bedfellows: Green activists find new allies in US unions who see job opportunities

Some U.S. labor groups that have long feared environmental campaigns as a threat to American jobs are starting to see advantages in going green.

This evolution was clear at this week's U.N. climate talks in Poland, where several American labor groups and environmenta...

Darfur crisis is stripping the environment

2010-10-21T10:12:56Z

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UN deal on protecting forests in doubt

2010-04-16T13:57:08Z

Faltering efforts at UN meeting to protect forests prompt environmentalists' appeal

Hopes to reach agreement at a U.N. climate conference in Poland on protecting the world's forests are fading, prompting environmentalists to appeal Saturday for an extra push for a deal this week.

The conference of nearly 190 countries was working on a plan to compensate co...

Conservation atlas reveals 'most valuable' forest

2010-10-21T10:12:54Z

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Gallery: Shortlisted pictures of unsustainable living

2010-10-21T10:12:14Z

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Pay indigenous people to protect rainforests, conservation groups urge

2010-04-16T16:31:30Z

Rich countries should try to cut the greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation by first investing in the people who live and use forests, rather than relying on the financial carbon markets to encourage conservation, leading development experts have proposed.

If not, they risk unleashing a wave of land grabs, corruption, cultural destruction and civil conflict, said the Washington-based Mexico environmentalists fear deforestation to go unabated in UN world heritage site

Environmentalists fear the decision to list Mexico's wintering grounds of the Monarch butterfly as a U.N. world heritage site may do little to halt deforestation that threatens the butterflies.

UNESCO bestowed the global landmark...

U.N. calls on Asian nations to end deforestation

2010-10-23T09:27:46Z

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Indonesia: Can't See the Conference for the Trees

2010-10-23T09:26:20Z

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Correction: Climate Conference story

2010-09-10T14:59:06Z

Correction: Bali-Climate Conference Story

In stories Dec. 2 and Dec. 3 about the U.N. global warming meeting, The Associated Press misidentified the outgoing president of the U.N. climate change conference. It was

2010-10-23T02:38:47Z

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The Environment and Management Principles

2010-09-09T05:54:31Z

The surrounding influences which are now included in the meaning of 'the environment' are the air that we breathe, the water we drink or swim in, our homes, numbers of people, traffic, noise, streets, stores, parks, countryside, seashore, wildlife, factories, farming and mining. It has become the practice in geography to refer to the physical environment when referring to natural features, the human environment when referring to cultural and social conditions and the built environment when re...

UN to tackle global e-waste

2010-10-23T09:53:16Z

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Global alliance plans to tackle mountains of e-waste

2010-10-16T08:10:03Z

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Ivory Coast

2011-01-02T12:30:25Z

In this Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010, photo, Jordanian peace keepers, patrol on the street in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Some people yell "U.N. out!" as the Jordanian U.N. peacekeepers pass by in their armored personnel carriers, but generally these soldiers don't understand French and so miss the comments yelled at them, although one man honk...

South Sudan Vote

2010-12-28T11:31:27Z

Southern Sudanese men store recently delivered ballot papers, inside a warehouse in Juba, southern Sudan on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. More than 7.3 million ballots have arrived in Southern Sudan for an independence referendum that is likely to create the world's newest country. U.N. official

APTOPIX Ivory Coast

2010-12-24T01:31:06Z

UN forces drive past a billboard for President Laurent Gbagbo in, Ivory Coast, Abidjan Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. The United Nations said Thursday that at least 173 people have been killed and dozens of others have gone missing or been tortured following Ivory Coast's disputed ...

Richardson Koreas

2010-12-23T18:31:25Z

In this Dec. 22, 2010 photo, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson answers questions about his recent trip to North Korea during an interview in his office in Santa Fe, N.M. A former U.S. ambassador to the ...

Switzerland Human Rights Council Ivory Coast

2010-12-23T07:00:28Z

Korean Kyung-Wha Kang, United Nations deputy high Commissioner for Human Rights speaks during the 14th special session on the situation in Ivory Coast of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland