Tag: United Nations - Page 5
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EcoChic Geneva Showcases Sustainable Fashion at UN Headquarters
United Nations headquarters, Palais des Nations in Geneva was the epicenter of eco fashion Thursday night with a sustainable fashion show and exhibition--featuring ready-to-wear and
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Climate & Energy Quick Takes: US Wants Diminished UN Climate Roll, Madagascar Sanctions Illegal Logging, Hindu Epic Recitation Helps Plant Trees
Lots of newsworthy stuff coming through in that last 48 hours, so here's a quick recap:
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African Soccer Team Jerseys by Puma will Promote Biodiversity at World Cup
Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green
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The Week in Pictures: International Year of Biodiversity, Sweden Allows Wolf Hunting, Frog Eats Snake, Geoglyphs Discovered, and More (Slideshow)
From the news that a single bluefin tuna has been sold for the highest price in the past nine years at a Tokyo fish auction to the government of Sweden allowing wolf hunting after a 45-year ban to dwindle the population of 237 down to 210 wolves, a lot
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EcoChic Geneva Celebrates the International Year of Biodiversity in Fashion
The UN has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, and--though 2009 has just drawn to a close--we are looking forward to EcoChic Geneva on January
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Copenhagen Perspectives: Two TreeHuggers Report Back
The climate summit in Denkmark, known as Cop15, has drawn to a cloudy close. Now it's time to try and make sense of what actually happened, who did what, and how the results will shape our troubled relationship with the planetary climate. This week, two
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All Aboard the Climate Express to Copenhagen (Slideshow)
Having previously written about the Climate Express prior to the start of its journey in Kyoto, Japan I was very excited when the UNEP invited me to join them for the final leg of the journey. We traveled from Brussels to
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Let's Give Out Free Condoms to Stop Climate Change... Maybe Not as Daft As It Seems
Here's the latest salvo in the ongoing population growth-climate change debate: The latest UN Population Fund report says that an important component in combatting climate change is limiting population
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GOOD Has the Goods on COP15: Everything You Need to Know About the Copenhagen Conference
COP15, the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, has been called the most important meeting in history. Some people are optimistic about the results while others are already planning post-COP15 actions. Either way, being
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Road to Copenhagen: Is a 'politically-binding' agreement worthless or a path to progress?
From all I can gather, the actual on-paper negotiations are moving this week, progressing in some way towards some kind of agreement. (We'll get to what kind of agreement soon.) But we wouldn't have much way of knowing,
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Road to Copenhagen: No Senate Bill Before Copenhagen, What's Next?
Well that's settled. There won't be a Senate bill before Copenhagen. Which means a lot of things: the US won't have concrete numbers on mitigation targets and finance commitments before COP15 convenes; the difficult job of
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Road to Copenhagen: Waiting for America
As the last round of "intersessional" climate talks before Copenhagen opened yesterday in Barcelona, all eyes were looking in the same direction they were when we left Bangkok three weeks earlier: at the United
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Hey United States, Show Us Your 2020 Emission Reduction Target - Climate Talks Enter Home Stretch
We're really into the pre-COP15 negotiating home stretch now, with talks moving to Barcelona, and initial reports aren't exactly encouraging: An IEA official says negotiators aren't ready to solve
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Next Stop COP15! Kyoto-Copenhagen Train to Tout Climate Change Awareness & Sustainable Transport
While not a substitute for practical action, I'm a big fan of the symbolic, so this next one is pretty cool: The UNEP has just announced that a one-time train link between Kyoto and Copenhagen will
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More COP15 Expectation Management: UN Plans Post-Copenhagen Talks - Kerry Says We've Done All We Can
Though the grand exercise of managing expectations regarding the possibility of actually getting a global climate deal signed at the COP15 talks has been going on for a couple months now, here are the latest examples
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No New Treaty Likely at COP15 - We've Run Out of Time, Top UN Climate Negotiator Says
While it's true, as Brian just pointed out, that the media have been taking us on a bit of a rollercoaster ride regarding the will there-will there not be a new treaty at the end of COP15 speculation, The Financial
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EU Sides with Corrupt African Governments to Block Stronger REDD Forest Protection Scheme
With the latest (and second-to-last) round of negotiations before COP15 just finished in Bangkok, the gap between rich and poor nations on each other's responsibilities, by many accounts, has not narrowed.
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Want a Strong Climate Deal? Become a Citizen of Hopehangen
We're coming into the home stretch before the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen and we need to put as much pressure as possible on our national representatives that at this moment there is no more important single issue than establishing a fair,
