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Guadiana River Basin - UNEP/DEWA~Europe > Publication > Freshwater in Europe National and regional environmental NGOs are represented on the CAIA (Commission for the Environmental Monitoring of Alqueva Dam). The main problems within the river basin are the overexploitation of the aquifers in the upper river basin for agricultural use, the agricultural contamination, and fragmentation by dams. The current solution is water transfer from the Tagus river basin, which has resulted in the introduction of a number of alien species that endanger the local endemic fish species in the Guadiana. www.grid.unep.ch /product/publication/freshwater_europe/guadiana.php   (660 words)

The environment (from United Nations) --  Encyclopædia Britannica In response to growing worldwide concern with environmental issues, the General Assembly organized the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, which was held in Stockholm in 1972 and led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the same year. Established in 1969, the UNFPA is the largest international source of assistance for population programs and the leading United Nations (UN) organization for the implementation of the 1994 Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development. The United Nations was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership. www.britannica.com /eb/article-12429   (908 words)

UNEP FI: Work Programme: Climate Change UNEP Finance Initiative is a Unit of the Economics and Trade Branch, within the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics at the United Nations Environment Programme. policy and regulation debates at both the national and international levels, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, and Climate change is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing our planet requiring urgent action from all sections of society, and the finance sector is no exception. unepfi.net /cc/index.htm   (321 words)

Encyclopedia: United Nations Environment Programme IPCC is science authority for the UNFCCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess the risk of human-induced climate change. The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. UNEP is also one of several Implementing Agencies for the Global Environment Facility (GEF). www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/United-Nations-Environment-Programme   (738 words)

UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Home page Environment & Poverty Times: MDG Issue -- Regions of the world facing the most serious decline in the services provided by ecosystems are the same areas showing the slowest progress in achieving the MDGs. This publication of the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) was launched during the ENVSEC Advisory Board Meeting in Bratislava, 29-30 September 2005. Deserts, Drylands and Desertification Through the Eyes of Children -- Nairobi, 23 September 2005 – Children from around the world are being invited to express their hopes and fears about the future of the world's deserts and the issue of desertification in general in th... www.grida.no   (315 words)

New Mapping Tool Shows Impacts of Development Across the Globe The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has developed a global mapping technique, called GLOBIO, that combines these myriad conclusions into a comprehensive picture of the cumulative toll that infrastructure development is having on the planet. The United Nations Environment Program has come up with a new way of mapping the broad ecological toll. UNEP released the first example of GLOBIO's power as a tool a week ago in a report on the Arctic presented at a meeting of environment ministers in Rovaniemi, Finland. news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/06/0619_globiofin.html   (960 words)

UNEP-Caribbean Environment Programme_Coastal Zone Management Animals occupying this environment have adapted to the constant motion of the sand, gravel, or shell. These pages are a good starting point for research into many of the pressing concerns of the nations and territories of the Wider Caribbean Region. However, the UNEP Task Team of Experts for the Wider Caribbean concludes that a mean sea level rise of 10 cm by the year 2025 might be realistic, although this value should be accepted with some caution. www.cep.unep.org /issues/czm.html   (6532 words)

Global Environment Facility The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established in 1991, helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. This report explains how the GEF family is committed to helping reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by mobilizing international cooperation to protect the global environment in ways that promote sustainable development and create opportunities for the world’s poor. Sustainable land management is the theme of several new publications issued by the GEF in honor of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification (2006). www.gefweb.org   (236 words)

Climate change: UNEP.Net, the Environment Network The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiatives warns of unawareness and lack of commitment to the problem. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its 1997 Kyoto Protocol are the key processes for negotiating international climate policies and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The designations employed and the presentation of material do not imply any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNEP or the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. climatechange.unep.net   (603 words)

WSSD - Sector reports - Reports UNEP DTIE has facilitated the preparation of a series of sector reports, whereby international, industry organisations and associations take stock of progress towards sustainable development and outline future challenges and actions to be taken. Also available are: contact details of the industry report co-ordinator(s); contributing industry groups, stakeholders (from which comments were solicited) and the executive summary of the report (in HTML). This is an industry-driven initiative, which has resulted in twenty-two sector reports, developed according to a common format (PDF - 30KB) and discussed in consultation with relevant stakeholders. www.uneptie.org /outreach/wssd/contributions/sector_reports/reports.htm   (107 words)

Nat' Academies Press, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics (1993) Food and Agriculture Organization and United Nations Environment Program. Part I. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the HUMID TROPICS to north Shaba; the mid-southeast/northeast band, which extends from north Shaba across the Kivu region to the higher Zaire River region (Haut-Zaire); and the densely populated centers of Gemena in the Equateur region and Kisangani and Isiro in the Haut-Zaire region. books.nap.edu /books/0309047498/html/625.html   (4763 words)

UN Report Links Infectious Disease Outbreak in Congo to Environment The head of the environment and health unit at the United Nations Environment Program, Hiremagalur Gopalan, told reporters in Nairobi exposure to mercury and overcrowded living conditions likely played a major role in the recent outbreak of pneumonic plague among miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The deputy director of the United Nations Environment Program's early warning and assessment division, Marion Cheatle, described to reporters how environmental changes have encouraged the breeding of mosquitoes, which, in turn, spread dengue fever and malaria. A United Nations' environment official Monday said the recent outbreak of pneumonic plague in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be linked to environmental conditions. www.voanews.com /english/2005-02-21-voa29.cfm   (484 words)

UNEP Islands Home Page The Regional Seas Programmes of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) include all of the small island developing States, and have done much to encourage regional cooperation among islands on environmental issues, such as through the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP). The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution in 1989 at its 44th session (GA 44/206) on possible adverse effects of sea-level rise on islands and coastal areas, particularly low-lying coastal areas. As part of its Global Environment Outlook (GEO) reporting process, UNEP, in cooperation with the European Union, prepared a first series of Environment Outlook reports for the major small island regions of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific in 1999, with the participation of regional institutions. islands.unep.ch   (2083 words)

Bell Canada : Bell Canada recognized by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) In addition, 1,498 units were donated to the 2nd Stage Program, which supports women leaving the shelters to start a new life. The program has supported over 150 women's shelters across Canada and numerous registered children's charities and community safety agencies with unlimited and/or reduced local airtime, call display, voicemail and 911 access. "The knowledge and expertise Bell has gained since it launched its corporate recycling program will be shared with our membership." For additional information about the Recycle, Reuse, Redial program, please visit www.bell.ca (search Recycle) and for targets achieved in 2004 please see Background Document. www.bce.ca /en/news/releases/bc/2005/04/25/72299.html   (604 words)

United Nations Environment Program - Background Guide In mid-September, the United Nations Environment Program reported an expected doubling of tourism by the year 2020. In a collaborative effort to thoroughly study the specific effects of climate change, the United Nations Development Program and Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment have formed a partnership. The first, announced by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT), stated that in less than three decades, the world could see a doubling of urban slum dwellers, placing this population at almost 2 billion. artemis.austincollege.edu /acad/mun/ewcmun/UNEP/background_guide.htm   (707 words)

AllRefer.com - United Nations Development Program, UN (United Nations) - Encyclopedia United Nations Development Program (UNDP), agency of the United Nations, established in 1965 to unify the operations of the Expanded Program of Technical Assistance and the United Nations Special Fund, which continued as separate components of UNDP until full unification in 1971. AllRefer.com - United Nations Development Program, UN (United Nations) - Encyclopedia The UNDP is a major source of technical assistance in developing countries, with most of its grants being in the form of consultants' services, equipment, and fellowships for advanced study abroad. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/U/UNDevel.html   (268 words)

UN paints grim global picture We are on an unsustainable course,'' Klaus Toepfer, head of the United Nations Environment Program, said at the launch of the report in Nairobi. The rate at which humans are destroying the environment is accelerating, often because of excessive consumption by the rich, and to the detriment of the poor. The report says emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming have quadrupled since the 1950s, and that ''binding'' targets to reduce emissions, agreed by governments at the summit last year in Kyoto, Japan, may not be met. www.mapcruzin.com /scruztri/docs/news0922991.htm   (521 words)

Terrorism, Poverty, Jean Chretien The United Nations hopes to have the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal up and running by next year, AP reports. Representatives of dozens of nations that support the court, but haven’t ratified the treaty were in the UN conference room as observers. The United States objects to the idea that Americans could be subject to the court’s jurisdiction even if it is not a party to the pact. www.torontofreepress.com /2002/un91602.htm   (587 words)

GEO-3 North America Report - Practical Applications - Measurement and Assessment IISD A report from the United Nations Environment Program, published in May 2002, says that North Americans have made gains in cleaning up the environment over the past 30 years but the gains have been more than offset by harm. Reporting on a detailed study of the current state of the environment in Canada and the United States, the report provides an integrated analysis of resource assets and 30-year trends in nine major themes: atmosphere; biodiversity; coastal and marine areas; disasters; freshwater; forests; human health and the environment; land; and urban areas. The International Institute for Sustainable Development is a UNEP Collaborating Centre and László Pintér, Senior Project Manager in the Measurements and Indicators Program, was a contributor to the report. www.iisd.org /measure/practical/geo3na.asp   (170 words)

Diesel Fuel News: United Nations Environment Program: ULSD report not final - ultra-low sulfur diesel - Brief Article It's premature to conclude that the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) or the UN endorse the conclusions in a report urging a one-step jump towards ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) for the whole world, as we reported in our last issue (see Diesel Fuel News 9/15/2003, p1). UNEP clarifies that the report (which we thought was final) is still in draft and its conclusions could change. Editor's note: We obtained the document as an attachment to a June 2003 PCFV "final report' with UNEP's logo on the cover. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CYH/is_18_7/ai_108880548   (282 words)

Watson Institute for International Studies Chief among these is its collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which provides UN certification for each participant successfully completing our curriculum. At Brown University, the Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program convenes environmental leaders from university faculties, governments, and non-governmental organizations throughout the developing world. Strengthening environmental capacity is most critical in developing nations, where health consequences are severest; population growth is highest; and biological diversity greatest, yet most imperiled. www.watsoninstitute.org /GE/Watson_Scholars   (454 words)

Data The GRID-Europe database is maintained for the purpose of assisting the international community and individual nations in making sound decisions related to resource management and environmental planning, and where applicable providing data for scientific studies. The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. It was developed on behalf of the SAEFL (Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscape) and offers approximately 600 data sets of increased quality compared to the former CDS content. www.grid.unep.ch /data/index.php   (387 words)

Mercury Programme homepage In response to this request, UNEP has established a mercury programme within UNEP Chemicals, which was strengthened by the Governing Council at its 23rd session. Among the priority activities of the UNEP mercury programme in 2005/2006 are The Governing Council decided that national, regional and global actions should be initiated as soon as possible and urged all countries to adopt goals and take actions, as appropriate, to identify populations at risk and to reduce human-generated releases. www.chem.unep.ch /mercury   (177 words)

Henry I. Miller & Gregory Conko on United Nations on National Review Online The UNEP program's "capacity building" applies only to the regulation of gene-spliced products, and many of the countries for which the project is intended lack virtually any regulation of acknowledged high-risk activities, such as public transport and dangerous occupations, and their expenditures on public health are woefully inadequate. He concludes that the program was "tainted, failing to follow the established rules of the organization," and that "political considerations intruded." But the U.N.'s problems don't stop at Oil-for-Food — as if that weren't enough. Many U.N. experts themselves warn that the greatest single threat to the planet's environment comes from the world's burgeoning population and its demand that ever more land be devoted to food production. www.nationalreview.com /comment/henrymiller200502150749.asp   (1248 words)

UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM A subsequent study by this group [Vermeer et al., 1991] also demonstrated that the proportion of normal individuals in the United States population sensitive to the immunosuppressive effects of UV radiation is independent of skin pigmentation. There is new information from the northwestern United States indicating an incidence rate of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) as high as 106/100,000 in 1986. Most of the exposures used in experimental animal studies differ greatly from what would occur in the natural environment (the use of hairless or shaved animals, and very high doses of UV-B). www.ciesin.org /docs/001-518/001-518.html   (5115 words)

NYU Law, Library - Foreign & International, United Nations United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) information about the organization, current events, publications, programs, documentation and databases. Researching the United Nations by Mary Rumsey at the University of Minnesota. As a regional arrangement under Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, the OSCE has been established as a primary instrument in its region for early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation in Europe. www.law.nyu.edu /library/foreign_intl/un.html   (620 words)

Other Sites, S-U The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) is a group of NINE specialized centers for analyzing and forecasting the atmosphere on a global scale with some geographically separated centers having a specialized service focus on portions of the overall national warning and forecasting process. The National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) is the NWS center of expertise in satellite and airborne remote sensing and geographic information systems used to support the NWS operational hydrology program for the Nation. Program "organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and production of animals in the sea." www.usgcrp.gov /usgcrp/links/links-u.htm   (1713 words)

IFOAM IFOAM and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) IFOAM and the UNEP are in the process of developing a three-year joint work program for biodiversity and organic agriculture in order to implement the recommendations resulting from the conference. In September 2004, UNEP hosted and jointly organized the Third International IFOAM Conference on Biodiversity and Organic Agriculture at the headquarters of UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya. IFOAM is an accredited international organization wth UNEP, but that only one aspect of a more complex relationship between the two organizations. www.ifoam.org /about_ifoam/status/unep.html   (213 words)

International Mercury Pollution Proposal Adopted at United Nations Environment Program On February 7, 2003 the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) adopted a decision to address mercury pollution at the international level. The Governing Council decision authorizes UNEP to begin technical assistance and capacity building activities to lessen the human health and environmental impacts of mercury. However, approximately one-third of the atmospheric deposits of mercury occurring in the United States are linked to releases from sources outside the country. www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2003/17718.htm   (374 words)

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