Environment

 New atlas containing 100 environmental hotspots of the world

Environmental Hotspots

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
Down to Earth
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Environment, Media, UNEP, Internet
Environment

 Cleanup of oil spill begins in Lebanon

Following a truce between Israel and the Hizbollah, cleanup of the huge oil spill off the coast of Lebanon has begun. Around 15,000 tonnes of oil had spilled into the Mediterranean after the Jiyyeh

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
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Environment, Oil Pollution, Mediterranean Sea, UN, UNEP, War, Israel, Lebanon, Marine Pollution
Industry

 Healthy employment

Trade unionists and environment experts from around the world have agreed that environmental rights such as access to clean water, health care and energy be made part of workers rights.

The decision was taken during a conference on labour and environment organised by the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi from January 15-17, 2006.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2006
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Water Supply, Workers, Women, Health Care, Energy, Unemployment, UNEP, Trade Unions, Africa, Developing Countries
Environment

 Organisational tinkering?

A World Environmental Organisation, Solution or Threat for Effective International Governance?

Publication Date: 
29/09/2005
Julian Cheatle
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Environment, UNEP, International Organisation
Water Pollution

 UNEP non science

Politics hinders process to make the apex body scientifically sound

Publication Date: 
28/02/2004
Clifford Polycarp
Down to Earth
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Environment, Fisherfolk, UNEP, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
Fisheries

 Conflicts are bad for the environment, says UNEP report

At a time when the threat of war looms large over Iraq, here s more ammunition for peaceniks to confront warmongers with. The United Nations Environment Programme UNEP recently released the findings of assessments conducted in the violence wracked Occup

Publication Date: 
30/03/2003
Clifford Polycarp
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Ecology, Pollution, Groundwater Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Water Quality, Fisheries, Conflicts, Hazardous Products, UNEP, War, Afghanistan, Iraq
Environment

 Bridging the gap

http://www.unep.net This recently developed website from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) promotes the UNEP's programme of partnership and cooperation in preserving the

Publication Date: 
30/01/2003
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Environment, UNEP, Internet
Industry

 Caught in a haze

Indian scientists contest the UNEP report on the aerosol-caused Asian brown cloud

Publication Date: 
29/11/2002
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Pollution, Respiratory Diseases, Industry, Research, Scientists, UNEP, Asia
India

 No silver lining

Even as UNEP calls for an international treaty on mercury pollution, India and other developing countries are oblivious to the dangers of being at the import-end of the chain

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
Ritu Gupta
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Environment, Pollution Control, Health Effects, Mental Health, Mercury, UNEP, NGO, India, Developing Countries, Statistics
Environment

 Human Menace

Unspolit land totalling an area larger than North America is likely to be damaged

Publication Date: 
14/06/2002
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Environment, UNEP, Developing Countries

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