Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent an indispensable force with which to combat inequities in access to health services and progress towards health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while …
europeans will continue to be exposed to significant levels of dioxin caused by the disposal of scrap cars, despite a proposed legislation agreed by the European Union ( eu ) Commission. The Commission has dropped plans to include in the legislation the provision for phasing out of polyvinylchloride, ( pvc) …
EUROPE'S farm buildings have concentrations of ammonia, bacterial toxins and dust, high enough to harm both farm workers and animals. Roger Phillips of the Silsoe Research Institute, Bed- fordshire, has reached this conclusion following a four-year study for the European Commission of farm buildings in Britain, Denmark, Germany and the …
European consumers may soon see the first commercial application of Conserver 21, a product which promises to add weeks to the shelf life of fruits, vegetables, flowers and meat. It works by converting ethyl- ene given off by decaying foodstuff into carbon dioxide and water vapour. This inhibits decay by …
Why is the European Union so strongly in favour of a forest convention? , I recently asked Jorgen Steen Neilsen, the editor of Information, a highly respected daily in Copenhagen, and a highly respected environment journalist himself. The issue of a forest convention is being raked up again and is …
AN ACTION plan has been prepared for imposing controls on the European Union's (EU) food market. The European Commission (EC) has decided to set up a food and veterinary office (FVO) in Ireland. The Fvo will be responsible for food safety in the EU countries. Emma Bonino, who was made …
IN A recent positive step, the European Union (EU) passed a regulation banning the export of hazardous wastes to developing countries for recovery purposes, to be effective from the beginning of next year. This regulation is designed to align EU legislation with Decision II /12 that was adopted as an …
WHEN the Delhi Rickshaw Chalak-Malik Sangharsh Morcha (rickshaw drivers and owners agitation committee) staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Municipal corporation of Delhi (MCD) on May 19, it was drawing attention to the harassment its members were facing at the hands of the authorities. Rickshaws are …
lack of rain, freezing temperatures and cold winds have brought fears of drought across Europe. Many farmers across Europe are now facing a 'catastrophe' according to Copa, the association of European farmers' unions. The worst hit countries are Italy, Spain and Portugal, while parts of France, Belgium and the uk …
TWENTY European countries recently signed a treaty which effectively bans human cloning. They signed the first international convention to control research into human genetic engineering and cloning at the Convention on Human Rights and Bio-medicine in Oviedo, Spain. The accord prohibits the use of genetic engineering techniques for anything other …
Monitoring the effect of rising carbon dioxide (CO) concentrations and climatic changes on Europe's forests is the aim of a collaborative project across eight European countries and Australia. The project is jointly funded by the Forestry Commission of UK and the European Union under the Environment and Climate Programme 1994-1998. …
OTULA OWUOR NAIROBI the fear that deadly European products and wastes easily end up in Africa was again confirmed when Kenyan customs and health authorities impounded at least 3.2 tonnes of suspected British 'madcow beef' being dumped into the country. The importation of the beef suspected to carry a transmissible …
the phenomenon of global warming is surely not confirmed as yet. An area may have become warmer not because of an increase in global warming but because of certain natural variations. But whatever be the cause, it is time we took note. For Earth as a whole, 1996 ranked among …
mans nilsson How much do environmental issues really cost us every year? Is it possible that the environmental damage arising from the production and consumption of goods and services in our society is so costly that in some cases it offsets the welfare gains from the very same production and …
• Parts of Europe and Asia including China will see more acidification in their environment in the coming years. •Agricultural land will expand from approximately 37 per cent of the total land area presently to around 50 per cent by 2050. The highest increases are projected to take place in …
industrialists and environmentalists are at loggerheads over a law being draf-ted by the European Commission (ec) which would force companies to pay for the environmental damage they cause. As per the draft law, European Union (eu) members will have to impose a strict
Did the Europeans bring syphilis with them, a venereal disease caused by infection with the bacteria Treponema pallidum , or did they catch it from the places they travelled and take it back to Europe? The question, long debated, may finally be settled. Bruce Rothschild, a paleopathologist at the Arthritis …
the latest item to join the list of banned products in Europe because of its possible risk to human health is an antibiotic called avoparcin. The European Union (eu) is going to ban the antibiotic following latest evidence from Denmark and Germany showing that the drug develops resistance to certain …
Fishing ministers of the European Union (EU) arrived at a consensus end 1996, which was marked by constant bickering over fishing quotas. After a debate on proposals made by the European Commis-sion (EC), ministers agreed to make moderate cuts in fish catch quotas for 1997. "The reductions were not that …
