Tag: United Nations - Page 9
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Quote of the Day: Arthur Manuel on How Indigenous Peoples Subsidize Canadian Forest Industry
[The Indigenous Network of Environment and Trade] argued that Canada's policy of not recognizing aboriginal treaty rights [in the Canadian-US softwood lumber dispute] was a form of a cash subsidy, a real cash subsidy, because the only thing that the
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UN Puts a Stamp on Climate Change
Today the UN will is offering a set of 6 postage stamps on the theme of climate change. Each stamp is based on images from Gary Braasch's book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World. The UN designated 2008 as
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Poor Management Costing Fisheries Upwards of $50 Billion a Year
Given the gusto with which we've decimated the ocean's major fisheries stocks over the past half-century, it should hardly come as a surprise that we've been extremely wasteful in the process. According to a new U.N.
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United Nations Report Projects 8.4 Million Jobs In Solar & Wind By 2030, Plus Green Goods Production Worth US$2.74 Trillion By 2020
A just-released report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is projecting US$2.74 Trillion worth of "environmentally friendly" goods will be produced in the world each year - by the year 2020.
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UN General Assembly Speeches Highlight Energy, Climate Concerns
This week is a big policy week in New York City, the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting is over at the Sheraton in midtown (check out Bonnie's pre-conference chat with Bill Clinton himself), and across town the United
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UNEP Web Tool Tracks Global Clean Up the World Activities
Wouldn't it be neat if you could see what people around the world were doing to commemorate the annual Clean Up the World Weekend while you were out picking up trash on the beach or taking part in one of myriad other
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Study Finds Half of All Food Produced Worldwide is Wasted
And you thought $20 billion worth of wasted food was a lot. According to a new policy brief issued by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Stockholm International Water Institute and the International Water Management
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South Africa Capping Greenhouse Gas Emissions. What Say You, India and China?
Bucking the tide of many developing nations, South Africa has chosen to set a limit on its greenhouse-gas emissions and to increase its use of renewable energy sources. South Africa's Environment Minister, Marthinus van Schalkwyk,
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IPCC Scientist Encourages Companies to Replace Travel With Video Conferencing
IPCC Scientist Encourages Video Conferencing We know that telecommuting is green, and we also know that emissions from the airline industry are growing. At the same time, high fuel prices are prompting the airlines to raise ticket prices, charge for
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UN Report: The Future Could be Swell... But We're Blowing It
Time for another round of good news, bad news. First, the good: According to a weighty new UN report (it's 6,300 pages long and includes submissions from 2,500 experts) uncovered by The Independent, the world stands poised to enter a
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Agricultural Land Degradation Increasing, Affecting New Areas: FAO Report
Several African countries have recently begun a program to halt desertification in the Sahel, but even in places where the desert isn’t advancing, agricultural lands face challenges from chemically intensive
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UN Publishes Satellite Atlas of Africa's Changing Environment
Image: Eye of Mauritania, UNEP From the first pictures of Earth seen from space, to the interactive Google Earth, it would be a bit of an understatement to say that satellite imagery has changed the way we view our planetary home and on how we've
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FAO Takes on Biofuel Subsidies, U.S. Claims 2020 Climate Targets "Unachievable"
As was widely expected, the U.S. and Brazil's biofuel programs came under heavy criticism at the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food crisis meeting yesterday in Rome. Jacques Diouf, its head, reserved most of his
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U.N. to Mediate Arctic Dispute: "Carve-Up" Deal in the Works?
A flashpoint of international contention in recent months, the race to lay claim to the Arctic's resources finally came to a head this past week when Greenland hosted a meeting between the five Arctic nations
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World Environment Day and an Interview with UNEP's Achim Steiner
Last week, Treehugger Writer Bonnie Hulkower interviewed Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nation's Environmental Programme (UNEP). Steiner was unanimously elected to his position in 2006, and is in the middle of serving a four year term.
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Russia Joins Global League of Climate Obstructionists, Putting Future U.N. Treaty in Doubt
Image courtesy of JackVersloot via flickr When in Rome: Joining its fellow top polluters -- China, India and the U.S. -- Russia has signaled it would rebuff the imposition of tougher emission standards, casting doubt on the prospects for a future
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UN Taps Chinese Siren As First Eco Ambassador
When the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced its first National Goodwill Ambassador to promote environmental responsibility yesterday, they picked the right person: actress Zhou Xun. Sure, Zhou has green cred -- she turns off the tap
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The World Needs a Farming Revolution! Declares U.N. Report
Oil is setting record high prices. People are rioting over the price of food in Haiti, Egypt, parts of West Africa and the Philippines. Since March 2007 the price of soybeans is up 87%, and the price of wheat has risen 130%. Global grain stores are at
