Tag: United Nations - Page 4
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Ecuador Will Receive $3.6 Billion to Not Drill for Oil
While many countries throughout the world are seeking to boost their economies by pumping the oil within their borders, Ecuador is now set to receive $3.6 billion for leaving it in the ground. In a UN agreement that's the first of
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Paper-Mill Pollution May Land World's Deepest Lake on Endangered Heritage List
Nasty pollutants pouring into the world's deepest and oldest lake from a pulp and paper mill are putting Russia's Lake Baikal -- which
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Why This Planet Needs a Woman's Touch
When you're trying to protect an entire planet, it seems pretty silly to leave half of its human
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While You Were Gawking at the Gulf Gusher: UN's REDD Forest Preservation Deal Gets Major Funding
One more story making the rounds last week
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UNEP Report Shows Green Movement Has Its Priorities Straight (More or Less...)
In case you've been wondering lately if this whole tree-hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of greatest ecological impact,
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Oceans Without Fish by 2050? UNEP Says Yes, At Current Fishing Rates
I have to say that this one just really depresses me (but please look straight at this one): AFP writes that a new report by the UNEP shows that at current fishing rates, and if we don't do anything to stop it, in 40 years there
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Rare Glimpse at the Wild Nature Inside Korea's DMZ
Environmentalists cheered the March announcement that North Korea and South Korea would work together to create an ecological corridor out of the Korean Demilitarized
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Hands Off Mother Earth! Online Campaign Against Geoengineering Launches
No matter how you cut it, geoengineering is a mind-boggling proposition, and most scientists are saying it should only be used as a last-ditch resort, rather than as a delay tactic to hold off real climate change action. Geoengineering really needs
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Good News (No, Really): We May Only Need to Increase Food Production 70% by 2050
What's the good news in that headline? According to the UK's Soil Association, estimates by the UN that to feed our ever-increasing population we will have to double food production by 2050 are too high and based on flawed
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Beyond Bonn, Why Not Just Skip COP16 & Focus on 2011 in South Africa?
So the first round of post-Copenhagen climate talks concluded last weekend in Bonn, Germany and where are we? European-based news media
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UN Will Airlift Nine Orphaned Gorillas Into Congo Nature Reserve
In an effort to help replenish the population of gorillas in a reserve in the east part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN peacekeepers from the MONUC mission will airlift nine orphaned gorillas into the region.
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New UN Climate Financing Group Is Another All-Boys Club
We just passed two milemarkers which make this next one all the more poignant: First, two days ago was International Women's Day and, second, we've just been told that in many places women are going to be hit harder
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Who Will Lead The U.N. On Climate Change?
A few weeks ago, UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer stepped down from his post as the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. Who replaces him figures to be a signal of where the UN is going on climate change. Developing
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UN Agreement Protects Seven Migratory Shark Species, But Australia Opts Out (Partially)
The United Nations Environment Programme has announced a "landmark agreement" to protect seven of the world's migratory shark species. Under the Convention on Migratory Species
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Pachauri. Semi-autographical Sex Tinged Novel. Oh Boy.
The UN's top climate official and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, Rajendra Pachauri, has penned a novel that reportedly mixes global warming lectures with steamy sex scenes involving a male protagonist that resembles Pachauri
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Top UN Climate Official Confirms Nations' Climate Pledges Won't Contain Global Temperature Rise
photo: Agustín Ruiz via flickr. Confirming what many both in the green community and outside it have been saying for the past six weeks and more, the UN's top climate advisor to the Secretary General, Janos Pasztor has said that the emission reductions
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Experts Advocate International Geo-enineering Research and Governance
In an opinion piece in the Jan. 27 online issue of Nature (paid content), scientists from Canada and the United States argue that internationally coordinated research and controlled
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Runway Report: EcoChic Geneva (Video)
We recently highlighted haute green fashion at EcoChic Geneva's runway show at the UN headquarters and more photos and a video by Maxim News Network have since surfaced. Click through to watch the runway show and hear from
