Topic: United Nations
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 (UNEP) report and ...
BONN, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Negotiations under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Europe began in Geneva in March with the aim of establishing a protocol for the reduction of sulfur-dioxide emissions. Talks resumed in September, but Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, and Spain proposed measures ...
To a geologist, erosion is the process that takes apart landforms. Overgrazing Allowing animals to remain on the same piece of ground too long can also do great harm. Grazing animals can eat the land bare. The Poverty-Environment initiative is a United ...
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