Posts Tagged ‘United Nations’
By NikkiJade • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Videos
This video presents environmental activist Severn Suzuki at age twelve addressing global leaders at the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in a powerful, provocative speech.
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters , ENN.com–Greece has been suspended from U.N. carbon trading in an unprecedented punishment for violating greenhouse gas reporting rules that underpin a fight against global warming, officials said on Tuesday.
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
The UN’s Kyoto Protocol is sometimes considered a bust because it doesn’t include the US, yet recent statistics from Det Norske Veritas, the certifying agency of Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in the developing world, are heartening Earth Day news.
By NunoXEI • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Blog
A ‘Green Passport’ campaign launched March 7th at a world tourism fair aims at shrinking the environmental footprint of vacation travelers, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).The goal of the internet-based campaign, introduced at the Berlin Tourism Fair, is to raise tourists’ awareness of their ability to contribute to sustainable development by making [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Blog
The global tourism industry has a key role to play in confronting the challenges of climate change, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said as an international seminar on the subject wrapped up in the United Kingdom today. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner, said:
Indeed, there is now a clear understanding that the [...]
