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UN Clean Seas Campaign Aims to Eliminate Ocean Plastic

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Dell Computers and a cast of celebrities have joined UNEP’s “Clean Seas Campaign” in a bid to eliminate ocean plastic.

Mangroves for the Future, FAO Launch Regional Sustainable Financing Project

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

With field projects under way in South and Southeast Asia, the MFF-FAO program aims to develop a low-cost mechanism for mangrove conservation and sustainable development to supplement the sale of carbon credits.

Nations Accelerate Plans to Realize UN Biodiversity Conservation Goals

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Mexico established four new biological reserves and five other protected areas as representatives from more than 190 UN member nations adopted the Cancun Declaration, stepping up their efforts to conserve biological diversity. Will it be enough to curtail a Sixth Great Extinction?

UNDP, UNEP Expand National Climate Adaptation Program

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

The two leading UN agencies are expanding efforts to assist national governments adapt to climate change as UN member nations gear up for much anticipated climate change treaty talks in Paris this December.

First UN Environment Assembly Marks Environmental Coming of Age

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is taking on a higher profile in multilateral efforts to spur ecosystems-based approaches to governance and development. This includes broad-based, far reaching efforts to craft and implement climate change mitigation and adaptation plans.

Member of the Global Water System Project meet in Bonn to discuss "water in the Anthropocene"

Experts Gather in Bonn to Address Threats to “Water in the Anthropocene”

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Humans are having an alarming impact on global water supplies, climate and ecosystems, threats which the Global Water Systems Project says requires urgent, holistic and systemic remedies.

Global Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit New Record

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

On Tuesday the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported in its Greenhouse Gas Bulletin that the volume of atmospheric greenhouse gases hit a new record in 2011. Carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas, reached a level of 390.9 parts per million (ppm) in 2011, or 140 percent of pre-industrial levels. The WMO estimates that since 1750 about 413 billion…