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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)

For the Birds		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
For the Birds The U.N. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals was widened this week to include six types of whales, a rare Asian river dolphin, the great white shark, and a camel capable of living on salty water. The decision to increase protections for these and other animals came at the end of a meeting on the convention held this week in Bonn, Germany. To protect migratory birds from be ...
Topics: marine life, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

U.N. Creates Watchdog Effort in Lieu of Future Summits		11 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: United Nations U.N. Creates Watchdog Effort in Lieu of Future Summits In what seemed like a tacit acknowledgment of the failure of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which ended last week, the United Nations has announced that it will not plan any more summits on the environment and development until governments have taken serious steps toward meeting the goals for progress established at Johannesburg and earlier summits. In place of the high-cost, high-profile meeting ...
Topics: United Nations (all these topics)

Scientists Discuss How to Reduce Mercury Use Around Globe		11 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Scientists Discuss How to Reduce Mercury Use Around Globe Scientists from around the world are meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland, at a conference sponsored by the U.N. Environment Programme, to discuss ways to cut back on global mercury use. For decades, the toxic substance has been used in lamps, batteries, electrical equipment, thermometers, dental fillings, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and even beauty products. Gul ...
Topics: health, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

To Summit Up		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Summit Up A global report card issued by the United Nations just two weeks before an international environmental summit has given low marks to the world's ecological condition. Among the report's more shocking findings: Three million people die annually from air pollution, while more than 1 billion people -- a sixth of the world's population -- lack access to safe drinking water. The report ...
Topics: air pollution, health, politics, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

Condom-nation		23 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Condom-nation The Bush administration said yesterday that it would withdraw $34 million in international family planning funds from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), arguing that the organization supports programs in China that force women to have abortions, in direct violation of U.S. law. U.N. officials denied promoting abortions in China (or anywhere else, for that matter), saying ...
Topics: health, politics, population, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Balkan Death Grip		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Balkan Death Grip Fleeing extreme poverty, thousands of Albanians are squatting in and near the abandoned Porto Romano chemical plant -- one of the most severely contaminated sites in the Balkans, with soil and groundwater pollutants at 4,000 times the levels considered acceptable by the European Union. Despite admonitions from United Nations experts, the Albanian government has failed to put up fences or warn ...
Topics: business, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Goal Standard		17 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
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Topics: United Nations (all these topics)

Climate Hooligans Does the World Cup hold the key to climate policy?	Jason Anderson	17 Jun 2002	Soapbox
The Maritim Hotel. Photo: IISD. The Maritim Hotel in Bonn, Germany is the regular site of the bureaucrat-level United Nations climate change meetings that take place between the ministerial sessions known as Conferences of the Parties. The building has the air of the showpiece hotel in an impoverished third-world capital: a chandelier and mirror quotient that's off the charts, but leaves you feelin ...
Topics: United Nations (all these topics)

Get the Bali Rolling		28 May 2002	Daily Grist
Get the Bali Rolling The fate of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August, could rest on a meeting that opened yesterday on the Indonesian island of Bali. The U.N.-sponsored meeting, which runs for two weeks, aims to smooth out differences among nations on how to achieve the twin and rather daunting goals of protecting the environment and eliminating ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, population, United Nations (all these topics)

Get With the Programme		23 May 2002	Daily Grist
Get With the Programme Despite some bright spots, the outlook for the global environment in the next generation is largely bleak, according to a report published yesterday by the U.N. Environment Programme. The report is the work of more than 1,000 authors and attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of how the environment has changed since UNEP was established in 1972 -- as well as look at trends for the next 30 years. The good ...
Topics: health, United Nations (all these topics)

Mammal-mia!		21 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mammal-mia! Nearly 25 percent of the world's mammals -- more than 1,000 species in total -- are in danger of going extinct within 30 years, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme on the state of the global environment. In total, the report identifies more than 11,000 endangered species, including one in eight bird species and more than 5,000 kinds of plants. The report blames the introduction of invasive ...
Topics: United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Go Get 'em, Tigers		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Go Get 'em, Tigers The world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarban, spans the border between Bangladesh and India, but the countries don't have a joint plan to manage the 3,700-square-mile area. The United Nations is hoping to change that. Two U.N. entities, the International Partnership Fund and the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, are p ...
Topics: Bangladesh, deforestation, India, land stewardship, national forests, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

Conventional Stupidity		07 May 2002	Daily Grist
Conventional Stupidity Almost a decade ago, 183 countries signed the Convention on Biological Diversity to guard against exploitation of their genetic resources. Now scientists say the treaty, although well intentioned, effectively prevents scientists from studying the natural bounty it is designed to protect. The many national bureaucracies spawned by the treaty do not easily distinguish between bioprospecting and basic science, a ...
Topics: United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

7.7 Degrees of Separation		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
7.7 Degrees of Separation Two new studies on global climate change, both appearing in the latest issue of Nature, predict that the Earth will get even hotter by the end of the century than previously estimated by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One study, from Switzerland, sees a 7.7 degree Fahrenheit increase by 2100; the other, from Great Britain, predicts as much as ...
Topics: climate, East Coast, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

U.N. Resolved		08 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
U.N. Resolved The Sixth U.N. Conference on Biodiversity opened in The Hague yesterday, with more than 2,000 delegates from 200 countries gathering to discuss the protection of the world's plants and animals. The main agenda items for the two-week conference include encouraging governments to halt deforestation and designing a policy to share and protect global genetic resources. The latter issue is particularly p ...
Topics: land degradation, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

One World, One More Agency		02 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
One World, One More Agency What the world needs is another regulatory agency. That is the conclusion of legal and environmental experts at the Tokyo-based U.N. University, who believe a new world environmental organization, as well as an international environmental court, could help make sense of the more than 500 environmental agreements and agencies operating around the world. In a report, the U.N. University folks called for the ...
Topics: politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Deep Du Du		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Deep Du Du Three years after NATO's 78-day air campaign against Yugoslavia, depleted uranium (DU) has been found at five of six sites investigated by scientists from the U.N. Environment Programme. The sites, in Serbia and Montenegro, had "widespread but low-level" contamination. Although the scientists did not report any current direct threat to humans or the environment, they expressed con ...
Topics: NATO, pollution and waste, United Nations, Yugoslavia (all these topics)

Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet And the reaction: At home and abroad, the response to President Bush's strategy for dealing with global warming was tepid at best. Pointing to counterexamples in Europe, U.S. critics disagreed with Bush's claim that mandatory emissions limits would damage the economy and said the plan was simply a sweet deal for big business. Sen ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, European Union, France, Japan, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Bang Dugong		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bang Dugong The animal that inspired seafarers to tell tales of mermaids is disappearing from the planet, according to a report released this week. The dugong, a large sea mammal that is a cousin to the famous manatee of Florida and the Caribbean, was thought by ancient sailors to be half-woman, half-fish, perhaps because of its habit of holding its young with one f ...
Topics: Caribbean, Florida, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

'No Way,' Says Norway		01 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
"No Way," Says Norway Long unhappy about pollution from Britain's Sellafield nuclear power plant, Norway announced yesterday that it would call for a binding international agreement to force polluting countries to pay for toxic cleanups beyond their own borders. The nation's foreign affairs committee voted unanimously to ask the government to impose economic san ...
Topics: European Union, nuclear power, pollution and waste, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

The Poor Shall Inherit the Worldwatch?		11 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
The Poor Shall Inherit the Worldwatch? By failing to embrace the steps called for at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the world may have helped set the stage for the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks, according to the Worldwatch Institute. In its annual "State of the World" report, the group calls for the world's nations to join the battle to reduce poverty and increase environmental protections at the 10th annivers ...
Topics: health, ozone, United Nations (all these topics)

The Ends of the Earth Summit?		28 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
The Ends of the Earth Summit? The aftershocks of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States are reaching halfway around the world, rendering uncertain the planning and financing for the World Summit On Sustainable Development, to be held next year in South Africa. The event, which is organized by the United Nations and is better known as the Earth Summit, will mark the 10-year anniversary of the first en ...
Topics: green living, South Africa, United Nations (all these topics)

Thought for Food		05 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Thought for Food The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has approved a precedent-setting, legally binding framework for protecting the genetic diversity of the world's crops. The deal reached over the weekend marks the culmination of years of difficult negotiations between poor countries and environmentalists on the one hand, and developed nations and multinational corporations on the other. Under the framewo ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, United Nations (all these topics)

Flood Insurance		15 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flood Insurance Chinese officials and the United Nations Environment Programme hope a $10 million plan to restore lakes and reduce logging and erosion will prevent a repeat of the disastrous 1998 flooding of the Yangtze River. Severe environmental degradation exacerbated the effects of heavy rainfalls that year, causing floods that killed upwards of 3,60 ...
Topics: China, environmental restoration, land degradation, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

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