Tag: United Nations
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3,000 great apes killed or captured every year, reports UN
In terms of biology, humans and the planet's other great apes share a common branch in the tree of life. But sadly, despite their near-humanity, our primate cousins continue to die out at the hands of those who consider them as mere commodities.
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Should the Former OPEC President Really Head a UN Climate Summit?
Compared to having Denmark's climate and energy minister head COP15, having the Deputy Prime Minister of Qatar at the helm seems a cruel joke.
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Wildlife Crime Called a Threat to Global Rule of Law in UN Talks
For the first time the UN General Assembly has taken up the global illegal wildlife trade as an issue of rule of law, alongside drug trafficking and similar issues.
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Republican Platform Comes Out Against Agenda 21, Law of the Sea, Women's Rights, Kids and People with Disabilities
In fact if the UN proposes anything, they are against it.
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Agenda 21 Update: Prospective Senator Cruz From Texas is An Agender
Is this conspiracy theory a sideshow, or does it have legs?
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Should Billionaires Be Forced to Pay a 1% Tax for International Development?
A new UN report says that a 1% tax levies on the world's 1,225 billionaires would more than make up for the shortfall in development aid from governments.
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Rio +20: Who is Really Responsible for Responsibility
TerraCycle looks at why all companies should begin a sustainability initiative.
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President Obama Won't Be Attending Rio+20 Sustainability Summit
Instead Secretary of State Clinton and EPA head Lisa Jackson will be going. This makes the third UN environmental conference the President has failed to attend.
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Just 4 of 90 Most-Important Environmental Goals Show Significant Progress: UNEP
UNEP's latest Global Environment Outlook goes on to say that we're making little to no progress on 24 goals, with 8 getting worse, including some of the most serious such as climate change and coral reef destruction.
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What Rio+20 Is All About in Just Over a Minute (Video)
In case you're not up to speed on what's going on at the Rio+20 environmental conference, UNDP has produced this quick video that will explain both what sustainable development is and why we so desperately need it.
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As Rio+20 Approaches, Pleas For Less Language Squabbling & More Respecting Indigenous Wisdom
Check out these two important pieces from Kelly Rigg and David Korten on where the Rio+20 negotiations are and aren't heading.
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How Happy Is Bhutan, Really? Gross National Happiness Unpacked
Gross National Happiness has lots of cache in the environmental and social justice community, but how is Bhutan actually calculating it and how well are they doing?
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Vote Now for the UNEP & TreeHugger Blogging Competition
Let the blogging begin! Help determine the winner of the Rio+20 Blogging Competition.
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There's More to Happiness Than GDP & There's a New Report to Prove It
With two months to go until the Rio+20 environmental conference, the UN is making a push towards moving away from using GDP as the end-all-be-all measurement of progress.
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Four Arrested at Occupy Wall Street's 'Disrupt Dirty Power' Protest
Last Tuesday, #Occupy protests took to the U.N. to protest the influence of the financial sector on polluting power.
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Gus Speth Envisions America the Possible (Podcast)
James Gustave Speth, founder of the World Resources Institute, discusses his new book and the political reform America so dearly needs.
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Global Water Supplies Threatened by Climate Change, Increased Demand
A report from the United Nations stresses that increased demand for fresh water, coupled with the effects of climate change, is threatening the world's water supplies.
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Lenny Kravitz Wants You to Buy Tap Water For a Cause
The rocker/actor has signed up for UNICEF's Tap Project, encouraging the purchase of restaurant tap water to provide clean water to children around the world.
