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Better Biosafe Than Sorry First International Biosafety Treaty Takes Effect		11 Sep 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: United Nations, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

For the Shell of It Shell Won't Drill at U.N. World Heritage Sites		02 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
For the Shell of It Shell Won't Drill at U.N. World Heritage Sites Royal Dutch/Shell, one of the world's biggest oil companies, has pledged not to explore or drill for oil or gas on U.N.-designated World Heritage sites. A week before Shell made its announcement, the International Council on Mining and Metals, which represents the world's 15 largest mining companies, made a similar ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, United Nations (all these topics)

You Don't Need a Weatherman ...		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
You Don't Need a Weatherman ... In a startling break from its usual dry delivery of statistics and scientific reports, the World Meteorological Organization warned last night that climate change is causing the planet's weather to rum amok and taking a significant human and economic toll. The organization found that erratic weather induced by global warming is no longer a prediction: It is a reality. Over the past year, the WMO, whic ...
Topics: climate, United Nations (all these topics)

Lake Woe-be-here		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Lake Woe-be-here The pristine environment around Lake Baikal in Siberia, the world's deepest freshwater lake, is endangered by a joint Russian-Chinese plan to build an oil pipeline through the region, Greenpeace warned yesterday. A month ago, Russian and Chinese oil companies signed a 25-year deal to pump 30 million tons of Russian crude oil to China every year, alo ...
Topics: China, commercial and industry organizations, Greenpeace, lakes, Russia, United Nations (all these topics)

Crop Circles		20 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Circles Negotiations between the U.S. and the European Union over genetically modified foods broke down yesterday in Geneva, furthering heightening trans-Atlantic tension and prompting the Bush administration to call on the World Trade Organization to begin hearing the dispute. At issue is a European ban on GM crops -- a ban that the U.S. agricultural industry says is costing ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United Nations, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

When Irish Eyes Are Smiting		11 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
When Irish Eyes Are Smiting Meanwhile, in nuclear news from elsewhere on the globe, Ireland has gone to international court in The Hague to try to shut down Britain's Sellafield nuclear power plant. The Irish, who have been fighting the plant for decades, claim that it violates the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea by polluting the Irish Sea with radioactive waste. The Sellaf ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, pollution and waste, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

War in the Time of Cholera		24 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
War in the Time of Cholera Iraq's water, sewage, and waste systems need immediate attention to prevent drastic environmental and human health problems in the wake of war, the United Nation's Environment Programme announced today. Earlier this week, doctors in Baghdad reported the first suspected incidents of cholera and typhoid, two potentially fatal diseases spread by poor water sanitation. Hundreds of more ...
Topics: health, Iraq, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Afri-can Do		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Afri-can Do Seeking to capitalize on the potential of renewable energy sources, 10 African nations are collaborating to increase their combined geothermal power generation to 1,000 megawatts by 2020. Geothermal power yields electricity by trapping steam released by water reservoi ...
Topics: Africa, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, green living, international government agencies, Kenya, Malawi, renewable energy, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, United Nations, Zambia (all these topics)

The Ides of Marsh		27 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
The Ides of Marsh Verdant marshes and wetlands were much of what helped put the "fertile" in the Fertile Crescent, that swath of land between the Tigris and Euphrates that is considered the birthplace of Western civilization. But in the last few decades, those marshes have been all but destroyed by dam-building and civil strife in Iraq. Those marshes that do remain could disappear in a ...
Topics: environmental restoration, health, United Nations, wetlands (all these topics)

Watery Grave		05 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Watery Grave The environment, public health, and global political stability all stand to suffer from shrinking freshwater supplies around the world, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations. In the most complete appraisal of global water resources to date, the U.N. found that the average per-person water supply will decline by one-third in 20 years, and as many as 7 billion people could face ...
Topics: politics, United Nations, water conflicts (all these topics)

Global Village Who will represent the voice of the world's people?	Elizabeth Sawin	18 Feb 2003	Soapbox
Petitions have been arriving in a flurry in my email inbox lately. I have some doubts about the efficacy of all this petitioning and tend to be quick with the delete button, but one recent petition drew me in. The message itself -- which stated that the United Nations was collecting signatures of people opposed to a U.S. invasion of Iraq -- wasn't that different from the others that arrived that day ...
Topics: politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Global Village		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, Iraq, Middle East, New York, New Zealand, United Nations (all these topics)

Af-gone		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Af-gone Afghanistan's most significant wetland area is now almost as dry as a bone, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Satellite imagery shows that 99 percent of the Sistan wetlands, which stretch into Iran, have dried out since 1998. The main source of water to the wetlands, the Helmand River, has been flowing at far below normal levels. Ahmad Yusuf ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Iran, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Sustainability Go Down		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Sustainability Go Down The United Nations isn't generally thought of as a marketing entity -- but a little marketing savvy is just what's needed to encourage sustainable consumption habits worldwide, according to the U.N. Environment Programme. Right now, the organization says, only 5 percent of people in developed countries maint ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, green living, population, United Nations (all these topics)

Quicksilver, Slow Kids		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Quicksilver, Slow Kids World leaders urgently need to take action to cut down on mercury emissions to protect human health, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme. Mercury is released into the atmosphere naturally from rocks, soils, and volcanic eruptions, but mercury emissions have dramatically increased from pre-industrial levels due to human act ...
Topics: energy, globalization, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

Montreal Expose		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Montreal Expose The Montreal Protocol, the international treaty to protect the ozone layer, has been hailed as the most effective environmental agreement ever signed. Now, though, it's efficacy could be jeopardized, because the Bush administration is calling for some exemptions to a part of the treaty that calls for a global ban on the pesticide methyl bromide by 2005. Administration officials say prohibit ...
Topics: Canada, ozone, politics, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

Raging Kabul		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Raging Kabul Twenty years of war in Afghanistan have not only taken an appalling human toll; they've laid waste to the nation's environment, according to a survey just completed by the United Nations Environment Programme. The survey found that more than 50 percent of the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in the last quarter-century, and w ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, land degradation, renewable energy, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Drinking Problems		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Drinking Problems As concerns grow about possible global water shortages, the United Nations Environment Programme has published a new report on the quantity, quality, and availability of worldwide water supplies. But unlike many scientific studies that are all-but-incomprehensible to the general public, this report uses simple visual images to convey its message. The graphs and photo ...
Topics: climate, health, pollution and waste, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Lead Us Not		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Lead Us Not Ninety percent of the global gasoline supply is unleaded -- but the majority of the remaining 10 percent is consumed in developing nations. That's bad news for citizens of those countries because leaded fuel is associated with neurological damage, particularly in children. Now, though, there's some good news from the United Nations Environment Programme: Most of the Africa ...
Topics: Africa, health, placemaking, toxics, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

The Strong and Short of It		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Strong and Short of It In a sign of increasing international concern about the ecological challenges posed by China, one of the world's most prominent greens has moved to Beijing and set up shop as an environmental consultant. For more than three decades, Canadian Maurice Strong has been a major player in global diplomacy, environmental and otherwise; earlier ...
Topics: Asia, business, China, green living, news, nuclear power, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Cell-ebrate		13 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Cell-ebrate Every year, hundreds of millions of new cell phones come into the world -- and now, thanks to a deal brokered by the United Nations Environment Programme, when they leave the world, they may do so in a relatively eco-friendly fashion. Yesterday, the giants of the electronics industry (including market leaders Nokia, Motorola, Philips, and Samsung) promised to work with UNEP to pilot programs ensuring tha ...
Topics: green living, recycling, United Nations (all these topics)

Rome If You Want to		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Rome If You Want to One-third of Italy's most important cultural sites are in a state of emergency, according to the Italian environmental group Legambiente, which studied 36 areas in the country that have been designated World Heritage sites by the United Nations. The group said water pollution was threatening Venice, while smog and sprawl were damaging Naples, Flore ...
Topics: air pollution, Italy, Mediterranean, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Chips Ahoy ... Ahoy, Ahoy		12 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Chips Ahoy ... Ahoy, Ahoy Think twice before you scrap that computer for the latest flat-screen iMac. Pound for pound, the average computer chip causes more harm to the environment than a car, according to a study by a team at the United Nations University in Tokyo. The researchers looked at all the materials (including chemicals and fossil fuels) required to transform raw quartz into a 32 MB memory chip that weighs two grams. ...
Topics: green living, United Nations (all these topics)

Power to the People Plugging developing nations into renewable energy	Amanda Griscom	08 Oct 2002	Powers That Be
The groaning has largely subsided over last month's World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, but one of the biggest disappointments of the event still deserves scrutiny: the failure to create a strategy to disseminate renewable energy throughout the developing world. "The Johannesburg summit's plan for renewable energy has two fundamental flaws -- there is no pla ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Gulf War Syndrome		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Gulf War Syndrome Environmental damage in Kuwait stemming from Gulf War activities was far more severe than originally thought, according to a U.N.-financed study whose preliminary results were released yesterday. The study found that pollution from torched oil wells not only filled into the sky, but also seeped into the ground; further, the salt from seawater used to douse the fir ...
Topics: air pollution, Kuwait, land degradation, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

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