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A Stall for Volunteers U.S. blocks binding mercury treaty		28 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
A Stall for Volunteers U.S. blocks binding mercury treaty U.N.-brokered international talks on mercury-reduction plans wrapped up last week. Instead of the legally binding global treaty favored by the European Union, the result was a plan to curb mercury emissions through "voluntary partnerships" among member countries, international organizations, and industries. "Voluntary" being the buz ...
Topics: news, toxics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

People, People Who Breed People Better make room -- world population to hit 9.1 billion by 2050		25 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
People, People Who Breed People Better make room -- world population to hit 9.1 billion by 2050 There will be 9.1 billion people on this li'l planet of ours by 2050, according to revised U.N. population figures released yesterday. That's a 40 percent increase from today's mere (!) 6.5 billion. While population in developed countries is expected to remain largely stable at 1.2 billion -- mainly due to immigration, as thei ...
Topics: news, population, United Nations (all these topics)

Global Warming -- It's Infectious Environmental change linked to spread of infectious diseases		23 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Global Warming -- It's Infectious Environmental change linked to spread of infectious diseases If the catastrophic flooding, drought, and weather-related calamities associated with global warming don't kill you, exotic infectious diseases might step up to do the job, a new report released by the U.N. suggests. It found that changes to the environment -- such as deforestation, urban growth, mining, and pollution of c ...
Topics: climate, health, news, United Nations (all these topics)

The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks		19 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks The U.S. delegation to an upcoming global conference on natural disasters is pushing to have references to global warming removed from the U.N. action plan to be ratified there. The document cites global warming as one factor among many leading to "a future where disasters could increasingly threaten the wor ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Dude, Where's the After Party? U.N. negotiators begin talking about post-Kyoto actions		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Dude, Where's the After Party? U.N. negotiators begin talking about post-Kyoto actions Two months before the Kyoto Protocol even takes effect, representatives meeting in Buenos Aires for the annual U.N. conference on climate change are already discussing plans for reducing emissions post-Kyoto. So far, says Eliot Diringer of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, participants have agreed that any future plans need to i ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Buenos Hot Aires U.S. professes bafflement at international ire over climate change		08 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Buenos Hot Aires U.S. professes bafflement at international ire over climate change "I'm not sure why we're considered the 'bad boys'," said puzzled U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson at this week's U.N. climate change convention in Buenos Aires. The conference -- the last such meeting to take place before the Kyoto Protocol goes into effect in February -- has featured sharp criticism of U.S. ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Deep-Sea Brawling Coalition calls for ban on deep-sea trawling		06 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Deep-Sea Brawling Coalition calls for ban on deep-sea trawling A coalition of enviro groups is sounding the alarm over deep-sea bottom trawling, petitioning the U.N. to ban a practice they say is rapidly destroying fragile marine ecosystems, including cold-water corals. Bottom trawling consists of dragging a heavy net across the bottom of the ocean, attempting to snag rare fish like the orange roughy -- valued as delicacies in ...
Topics: marine life, United Nations (all these topics)

Rout of Africa Environmental degradation fuels violence in Africa		06 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Rout of Africa Environmental degradation fuels violence in Africa Environmental problems like water shortages, deforestation, and overgrazing -- all exacerbated by global warming -- are tightly linked to violent conflict in parts of Africa, according to a new U.N. report. "The link could go in either or both directions," says the report, "conflict creates conditions promoting ecosystem degradation, ...
Topics: Africa, land degradation, United Nations (all these topics)

Sturm Und Dang Climate change and urbanization lead to more natural-disaster fatalities		20 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Sturm Und Dang Climate change and urbanization lead to more natural-disaster fatalities Thanks to global warming and the increasing concentration of the earth's denizens in densely populated urban centers, more and more people are vulnerable to natural disasters -- floods, droughts, storms, fires, landslides, and the like. The number of reported natural disasters rose from 261 in 1990 to 337 last year; durin ...
Topics: Caribbean, climate, Southeast, United Nations (all these topics)

Peace Meal Saleem Ali sends dispatches from a sustainable peace and development gathering		16 Sep 2004	Dispatches
Saleem Ali is assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Vermont and on the adjunct faculty of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He is attending the Wilton Park Conference on Environment, Development, and Sustainable Peace. � Thursday, 16 Sep 2004 STEYNING, U.K. A quiet English estate, renowned for its roster of conferences since 1946, is the venue f ...
Topics: Dispatches, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Err Jordan Middle East Conflict Decimates Jordan River		14 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Err Jordan Middle East Conflict Decimates Jordan River The Jordan River, a holy waterway for Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike, is a desiccated shadow of its once robust self, thanks to unceasing conflict and competition for water in the Middle East. Fifty years ago, the river's flow was more than 264 billion gallons a year; today, it is less than 26.5 billion a year -- and that includes more than 5 billion ...
Topics: Middle East, renewable energy, United Nations (all these topics)

Kim Jong Illin' North Korea's Environment Is in Sorry Shape		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Kim Jong Illin' North Korea's Environment Is in Sorry Shape Its rivers and streams are filled with industrial waste, its air is polluted, and its landscape is increasingly devoid of trees. Can't tell what country we're talking about? It's North Korea. The first large-scale environmental assessment of the country, conducted by dozens of government and academic researchers under the auspice ...
Topics: deforestation, North Korea, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Do the Right Thing Frist sides with right-wingers to stymie widely supported sea treaty	Amanda Griscom	17 Jun 2004	Muckraker
How's this for a once-in-a-blue-moon scenario? Six major environmental groups endorse a sweeping international treaty strongly supported by the American Petroleum Institute and other industry groups. Do you sea what I sea? Photo: NOAA. On May 12, top dogs from the Natural Resources Defense Council, National Environmental Trust, Ocean Conservancy, and three other green organizati ...
Topics: international politics, Muckraker, oceans, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Look for the GM Label Battle Over Genetically Modified Foods Rages On		27 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Look for the GM Label Battle Over Genetically Modified Foods Rages On It's been an action-packed couple of weeks in the ongoing global dispute over genetically engineered foods. Just today, a conference of 80 nations agreed on a strict set of labeling rules for international commodity shipments of GM foods -- rules which will form the basis of the biodiversity-protecting U.N. Cartagena Protocol -- over strenuous objections from the U.S ...
Topics: GMOs, United Nations (all these topics)

Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues In other genetic modification news, skirmishes over the safety and labeling of GM foods are erupting this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as delegates from around the world convene to discuss the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The U.N. accord, wh ...
Topics: China, European Union, globalization, GMOs, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Nations, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Prize and Shine Prizes Go to Community Programs Doing Environmental Good		20 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Prize and Shine Prizes Go to Community Programs Doing Environmental Good Competition for the U.N.'s Equator Prize -- rewarded for community initiatives that reduce poverty and preserve environmental health -- was so intense this year that there were seven winners instead of the normal six. The prize, awarded by the Equator Initiative, amounts to $30,000 -- plus a dose of international recognition. An ...
Topics: Africa, green living, India, Tanzania, United Nations (all these topics)

Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands Indigenous peoples are rallying for their lands and their rights this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where a major U.N. convention on biodiversity is taking place. Representatives of native peoples are demanding the right to reject development proje ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, green living, Indonesia, Malaysia, placemaking, South America, United Nations (all these topics)

Ballast Off! Invasive Species in Ballast Water Messing With World's Oceans		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Ballast Off! Invasive Species in Ballast Water Messing With World's Oceans Ships that carry ballast water -- used to balance and stabilize the vessels -- also carry thousands of aquatic species across the globe to foreign habitats, where they can have environmentally catastrophic effects. Recognizing this as one of the top four environmental problems facing the world's oceans (al ...
Topics: globalization, marine life, oceans, placemaking, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

One Meeellion Dollars! Iraq's Environment Ministry Faces Big Problems and a Small Budget		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
One Meeellion Dollars! Iraq's Environment Ministry Faces Big Problems and a Small Budget Iraq's first environment ministry, facing a host of daunting ecological problems and a list of 35 priority projects that would cost more than $200 million, has been allotted a 2004 budget of ... $1 ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, health, Iraq, Middle East, nuclear power, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Going South		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Going South The search for Antarctic organisms that can be used for pharmaceutical and other commercial purposes -- called "extremophiles" for their ability to thrive in harshly cold, dry, and salty conditions -- is pushing international patent law to the breaking point and threatening the fragile Antarctic environment, concludes a United Nations study released on Sunday. The Antarctic T ...
Topics: Antarctica, pollution and waste, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Billions and Billions Observed World Population to Level Off at About 9 Billion, Says U.N.		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Billions and Billions Observed World Population to Level Off at About 9 Billion, Says U.N. Population growth is expected to slow dramatically over the coming decades, but the number of people on the planet is still likely to reach 8.9 billion by 2050, up from 6.3 billion today, according to a new U.N. report released yesterday. Granted, that's not the sort of runaway growth experienced during the 20th century, when the world's po ...
Topics: population, United Nations (all these topics)

The Reports of Kyoto's Death are Greatly Exaggerated The Inside Scoop on Milan, Mercury, and More		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: climate, Italy, Russia, United Nations, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Skiing Downhill Global Climate Change Could Spell End of Winter Sports Industry		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Skiing Downhill Global Climate Change Could Spell End of Winter Sports Industry Bad news for ski bums: As global climate change heats up the planet and pushes snow lines ever higher, many winter resorts in Europe might have to shut down. Less expensive, low-altitude destinations will be particularly hard hit, with some slopes in Italy, Austria, and Germany already suffering from la ...
Topics: climate, European Union, outdoor recreation, Switzerland, United Nations (all these topics)

Sasakawa It to 'em Two Environmentalists Win UNEP Award		30 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: United Nations Sasakawa It to 'em Two Environmentalists Win UNEP Award Two dedicated environmentalists -- one from China, one from Brazil -- will share the Sasakawa Prize, which is awarded every year by the United Nations Environment Programme. Xie Zhenhua, vice chair of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, has spent more than 20 years promoting environmental protection and sustainable economic growth. Brazil's Dener Jose Giovanini is f ...
Topics: United Nations (all these topics)

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