United Nations Environment Programme - Environmental Problems and Protection

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 ...

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. "If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 ...

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 ...

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - A World Environment Organization, similar to the World Trade Organization, could be formed as part of environmental governance reform, a meeting of environment ministers decided on Friday. Ministers and officials from more than 135 nations converged on ...

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 released on Monday said. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Topic: United Nations Environment Programme

Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years: UN

Oceans' fish could disappear in 40 years: UN

U.N. panel sees future shortage of specialty metals

U.N. meeting moots WTO-style environment agency

India computer waste to grow 500 pct by 2020: report

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

Nurturing forests, peatlands will attack global warming: UNEP

Unchecked economic growth imperils Amazon: study

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