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UNEP UN Environment Programme

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Type: Organization

Name: UNEP UN Environment Programme

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Martin Khor: No Solution Yet As Climate Threshold Crossed

By Martin Khor, Executive Director of the South Centre, Geneva. Cross-posted from Triple Crisis . A key threshold measuring the march of global warming was crossed recently, when the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere topped 400 parts ... [Published naked capitalism - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Emission, Martin Khor, Carbon Dioxide

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

DONG Energy

DONG Energy receives recognised environmental award

About Energy Globe - the world's largest platform for sustainability!Energy Globe is supported by a large number of prominent personalities, including Kofi Annan, Michail Gorbatschow and the presidents of the European Parliament and the EU Commission ... [Published Noodls - 4 hours ago]

Entities: DONG Energy, Environment, European Parliament

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

United Nations

Inauguration of the new UN City in Copenhagen 5 July 2013

Denmark has hosted UN organizations since 1957. Hosting the UN provides significant benefits for the UN development organisations and thus also for the countries receiving development assistance through these organisations.Danish Minister for Development ... [Published Noodls - 6 hours ago]

Entities: United Nations, Copenhagen, United Nations International Children's Emergen..., Government of Denmark

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

China's nature reserves exceed global average

The size of nature reserves in China reached almost 15 percent of the country's total land area by the end of 2012, exceeding the global average of 12 percent.Li Ganjie, vice-minister of environmental protection, announced the figure at a celebration ... [Published China.org.cn - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Biodiversity, China, Zhang Xinsheng, Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystem

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Project on Climate Change Resilience of Rural Communities Launched

Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment in collaboration and support from United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) launched here yesterday a project on Climate Change Resilience of Rural Communities for five years from 2013 to 2018.Speaking at the launching ... [Published Agence Kampuchea Presse - May 22 2013]

Entities: Communities, Resilience, Global Warming/Climate Change, UNEP UN Environment Programme

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

UNEP UN Environment Programme

‘Greening’ global trade holds significant opportunities, says UN

To achieve long-term and stable prosperity, developing countries should embrace a green economy and look at sustainable trade opportunities, a new UN report has said.The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) study, Green Economy and Trade, highlights six ... [Published Blue & Green Tomorrow - May 22 2013]

Entities: UNEP UN Environment Programme, United Nations, Achim Steiner

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

World Wide Fund For Nature

Training is key to more sustainable mining practices

-process to minimise mercury use ongoingGeorgetown, GINA, May 21, 2013The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment continues to work closely with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to develop ... [Published Government Information Agency Guyana - May 22 2013]

Entities: Mining, Mercury, World Wide Fund For Nature, UNEP UN Environment Programme, Mineral

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Chinese actress Li Bingbing advocates for saving African elephants

Chinese actress Li Bingbing, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador. [UNEP Photo]China's leading actress has called for greater effort to end the illegal ivory trade, which experts say is fueling a rise in the killing of elephants across Africa.Li Bingbing – who is ... [Published United Nations Multimedia - May 21 2013]

Entities: Li Bingbing, UNEP UN Environment Programme, Advocate

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

NEWS: Traditional indigenous cultures can teach world how not to waste food: UNEP

Traditional indigenous cultures can teach wasteful modern cultures about how not to waste food, the United Nations Environment Program says.UNEP’s World Environment Day, this coming June 5, is this year dedicated to the theme of reducing food waste.In ... [Published Nunatsiaq News - Online - May 21 2013]

Entities: UNEP UN Environment Programme, World Environment Day, Putrefaction

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Traditional Cultures Can Show Wasteful World How to Preserve Food

From condensing the meat of whole cow to the size of a human fist, to preserving seabirds in sealskins, there are hundreds of ways in which traditional cultures can teach the wasteful developed world how to preserve and conserve one of our most-precious ... [Published Individual.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: UNEP UN Environment Programme, Deforestation, Refrigeration, Food Production, Mongolia

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

HELMEPA takes part in the review of the Regional Plan on Marine Litter Management in the Med

Upon the invitation of the United Nations Environment Programme Coordinating Unit for the marine pollution assessment and control component of the Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP MED POL), the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association-HELMEPA ... [Published All About Shipping - May 21 2013]

Entities: HELMEPA, Litter, UNEP UN Environment Programme, Mediterranean Information Office for Environmen...

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

UNEP: China’s green growth vital for entire planet

- A round-up of the day’s top climate change stories- Tweet @RTCCnewswire and use #RTCCLive hashtag- Contact the team at info@rtcc.orgChina: UNEP has praised China’s efforts to transition to a green economy calling the success of its policies vital for ... [Published Responding to Climate Change - May 21 2013]

Entities: UNEP UN Environment Programme, China, Achim Steiner

Quotes

Explaining the theme for this year's World Environment Day, Dr. Saif Ali Al Hajari said, "This year's campaign rallies you to take action from your home and then witness the power of collective decisions you and others have made to reduce food waste, save money, minimize the environmental impact of food production and force food production processes to become more efficient."

IAID and FEC join hands for celebration of WED in Qatar [Published AME Info - 5 hours ago]

Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, Christian Friis Bach says: "The new UN City sends a clear signal that the Danish government wants to strengthen the UN. I attach particular importance to the gathering of the UN organisations under one roof which makes them able to cooperate better and ensures synergy and impact. Through the new UN City, Denmark truly contributes to the objective of One UN"

Inauguration of the new UN City in Copenhagen 5 July 2013 [Published Noodls - 6 hours ago]

"All the things that Ken Saro-Wiwa fought and died for, we are still fighting for them. While Peter Voser is retiring to spend more time with his family, the people in Ogoniland, like other parts of the Niger Delta region, are still fighting for a livable environment for their families."

Nigeria: Niger Delta Activist Plans 'Special Present' for Retiring Shell CEO [Published AllAfrica.com - 7 hours ago]

"The United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indicates that in the past 50 years, 60 percent of the world's ecosystems have been degraded. Loss of biodiversity reduces our food, medicine, clean air and water. The ecosystem that human beings rely on is fragile" said Zhang Xinsheng, chairman of the International Union for the Conservation of NatureConservation of Nature Council

China's nature reserves exceed global average [Published China.org.cn - 12 hours ago]

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DONG Energy receives recognised environmental a... [Published Noodls - 4 hours ago]
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Rhino poachers, meet your match: poisoned pink ... [Published Christian Science Monitor - 20 hours ago]
Interpol focuses on illicit ivory trade [Published Gulf News - 20 hours ago]
Africa Focus: Kenya urged to protect biodiversi... [Published Individual.com - 21 hours ago]
Comment: Business needs a carbon budget to hit ... [Published Responding to Climate Change - 21 hours ago]
The Carpathian Convention at 10: On the map, bu... [Published WWF - 22 hours ago]
Tracking the Traffickers: Eradicating Rhinos [Published Council On Foreign Relations - 22 hours ago]
U.S. Clean Diesel Technology Exports an Economi... [Published FinanzNachrichten.de - 23 hours ago]
Minister Lulu Xingwana: Woman Children and Peop... [Published South African Government - May 22 2013]
Changing Environment in the Zambezi River Basin [Published Individual.com - May 22 2013]
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Project on Climate Change Resilience of Rural C... [Published Agence Kampuchea Presse - May 22 2013]
AXA Financial signs closed MONY portfolio trans... [Published WorldRegInfo - May 22 2013]
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Results of AXAs Shareholders Meeting (AXA) [Published WorldRegInfo - May 22 2013]
Plasticity 2013 Hong Kong serves up sustainable... [Published TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific - May 22 2013]
Botswana: Biodiversity and dragons come together [Published IIED - May 22 2013]
‘Greening’ global trade holds significant oppor... [Published Blue & Green Tomorrow - May 22 2013]
World Biodiversity Day May 22 to highlight exti... [Published KeralaNext.com - May 22 2013]
Green Costa Rica Hotel Chain Witnesses Massive ... [Published PRWeb - May 22 2013]
Indonesia and environmental sustainability: Wal... [Published Jakarta Post - May 22 2013]
Biodiversity as a Cornerstone of Sustainable De... [Published Sri Lanka Island - May 22 2013]
A view of the Nagoya Protocol [Published International Union for Conservation of Nature - May 22 2013]

Blogs

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Martin Khor: No Solution Yet As Climate Thresho... [Published naked capitalism - 8 hours ago] By Martin Khor, Executive Director of the South Centre, Geneva. Cross-posted from Triple Crisis . A key threshold measuring the march of global warming was crossed recently, when the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere topped 400 parts ...
The Carpathian Convention at 10: On the map, bu... [Published WWF - Environmental News - May 22 2013] By Andreas Beckmann The Carpathians turn 10 years old this month. The venerable mountains have of course been around for longer – at least 66 million years in fact. But it has been only relatively recently that the Carpathians, which stretch across ...
NEWS: Traditional indigenous cultures can teach... [Published Nunatsiaq News - Online - May 21 2013] Traditional indigenous cultures can teach wasteful modern cultures about how not to waste food, the United Nations Environment Program says.UNEP’s World Environment Day, this coming June 5, is this year dedicated to the theme of reducing food waste.In ...
Of Course Iran Is Chairing the UN Disarmament C... [Published Pajamas Media - May 19 2013] In the parade of United Nations absurdities, here comes Iran’s four-week presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament — an arrangement that the U.S. Mission to the UN has described as “unfortunate and inappropriate,” and Hillel Neuer of UN Watch has ...
'Green News Report' - May 16, 2013 [Published The BRAD BLOG - May 16 2013] IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hysterical Fox 'News' flip-floppery on Tesla; Consensus strikes again: 97% of climate scientists say global warming is man-made, but the public thinks it's evenly split; CO2 levels pass 400ppm; ...

Audio/Video

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UN highlights food waste in Kenya [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Feb 20 2013]

Press Releases

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JOBURG MAYOR CHALLENGES DELEGATES AT WASTE SUMMIT [Published PR inside - May 15 2013]
The Ambrose Hotel – Santa Monica, California Aw... [Published PR.com Press Releases - May 03 2013]
New Global Study Reveals High Cost of Land Degr... [Published CisionWire - English - Apr 10 2013]
Global Trade Boom and Surge in FDI Set to Drive... [Published PR.com Press Releases - Feb 21 2013]
IPEN: WHO-UNEP Report on endocrine disruptors h... [Published PR Newswire: Environment - Feb 19 2013]