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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 (UN report warned Thursday.

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

U.N. calls for much more metals recycling

2011-05-26T06:00:21Z

LONDON (Reuters) - The world would not have to dig so much metal out of the ground if it strongly embraced recycling, which could be higher, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Thursday.

Smarter product designs and support for developing country waste management s...

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 ...

What are brown clouds?

2010-11-29T15:48:57Z

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Trees For the World

2010-11-03T00:04:03Z

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Death Of Fluoride: Fluoride In Food Packaging Containing Four Human Degradation Needs

2010-10-08T09:59:23Z

Application of over half a century of perfluorinated compounds, because of the possible damage to human health, going to be the end.

2009 5 9, United Nations Environment Programme re-ranking of "Persistent Organic Pollutants List", perfluorooctane acid and its salts (PFOS) and amine (PFOA) compounds have been blacklisted become the another one after DDT s list. Once concealed 20 years, a few years ago are now Europe and the United States and other countries on the...

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.

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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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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 (World Environment Day is about taking action to be a part of the solution. And the Daily do something Tips are a great start.

We can all do our part to protect the planet by using less and acting more. Going green is not as difficult as yo...

U.N. meeting moots WTO-style environment agency

2010-04-16T06:56:51Z

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - A World Environment Organization, similar to the World Trade Organization, could be formed as part of environmental governan...

UN: Tidal Wave of E-Waste Poisoning Developing Nations

2010-10-25T07:59:47Z

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India computer waste to grow 500 pct by 2020: report

2010-04-16T07:00:50Z

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Waste from discarded electronics will rise dramatically in the developing world within a decade, with computer waste in India alone to grow by 500 percent from 2007 levels by 2020, a U.N. study ...

E-waste to hit developing world hard

2010-10-25T08:01:47Z

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Haiti's environment needs long-term help

2010-10-24T15:21:01Z

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'Catastrophic' e-waste fuels global toxic dump: experts

2010-04-16T09:10:22Z

A "catastrophic accumulation" of millions of tonnes of "e-waste" from computers, cellphones and television sets is fuelling a global pile of hazardous waste, an international body warned Friday.

Figures due to be released by the Basel Convention on transboundary movement of hazardous waste will show that the amount of discarded electronic goods has grown exponentially in recent years, officials said.

The convention's office said the stockpile, which includes toxic heavy metal...

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

2010-10-22T10:47:24Z

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Med Plan

2010-10-22T09:01:17Z

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Nurturing forests, peatlands will attack global warming: UNEP

2010-04-16T11:56:36Z

Fixing deforestation, preserving peatlands and ending reckless agricultural methods could be a major weapon in tackling climate change, the 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...

Chemical industry to work for more safety

2010-10-24T09:24:13Z

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Green Business Hosting Initiatives For Your Business

2010-10-05T13:54:35Z

The growing concern for environmental and climate change in recent years has many industries and businesses searching for new ?green? initiatives that not only minimize their carbon footprints, but save their bottom line from getting burned. Viable green initiatives are a new but necessary implementation that will help determine who will flourish or flop in the digital age.

Most industries are slow to adopt green initiatives because they are worried about compromising the quality of t...

Unchecked economic growth imperils Amazon: study

2010-04-16T17:08:43Z

Unbridled economic development fuelled by globalisation are devastating large swathes of the Amazonian basin, the United Nations warned in a major study released Wednesday.

A population explosion concentrated in poorly planned cities, deforestation driven by foreign markets for timber, cash crops and beef, and unprecedented levels of pollution have all taken a heavy toll on the planet's largest forest basin, the Premier Gordon Campbell (L) of British Columbia, Canada and Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State, Roberto Dobles, president of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) governing council, left, escorts Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Achim Steiner, UNEP executi...

United Nations Environment Programme

2010-04-14T19:24:05Z

Delegates listen to opening remarks by Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki during the opening ceremonies at the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters and venue for the 25th Global Ministerial Environment Forum 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya on 16 February 2...

Environment conference opens in Nairobi

2010-04-14T19:24:13Z

(L-R) Roberto Dobles, preisident of United Nations Environment Programme, or UNEP, governing council, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Achim Steiner, UNEP exuecutive director at the United Nations Environment Programme head...

25th Global Ministerial Environment Forum 2009 in Nairobi

2010-04-14T22:33:51Z

A delegate walks through the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters and venue for the 25th Global Ministerial Environment Forum 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya , 15 February 2009. The forum from the 16-20 February will focus on globalsation and the environment