UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
DOWN TO EARTH The time for postponement is over. The time to cut greenhouse gases is now. Or never. This week when climate change negotiators from across the world meet in the city of Poznan in Poland for the 14th conference of parties to the climate convention, they have a …
Threat of climate change is real and urgent and know that combating this threat will require deep and drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The question in Poznan is, how will we re-commit the industrialized world to serious reduction of its emissions. Poznan must also determine if the world is …
CSE asks two questions - What did the rich countries do to meet Kyoto commitments? - How do we all share growth and atmosphere equitably? Its the question at Poznan for the welfare of people and the planet: will the rich world responsible for the stock of emissions find the …
CSE's Press Release delivered by Sunita Narian is presented here. CSE charts an agenda for action in Poznan, calls for tough action to reduce emissions and an agreement based on equity The 14th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has begun on …
The 14th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be held December 1-12, 2008, at Poznan in Poland, is a little different from all the CoPs held so far in the 21st century. For the first time since the December 1997 CoP …
Following are findings of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a 2007 report. The scientific findings are meant as a guide for government delegates who will meet in Poznan, Poland, from Dec. 1-12: * OBSERVED CHANGES "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from …
As the United Nations readies for a key climate change meeting in Poland next month, a London-based human rights group warns that any new deal on global warming would be seriously compromised if the most vulnerable groups, specifically indigenous peoples, are shut out of the negotiations.
Greenpeace protesters clashed with coal miners at a new opencast mine on Monday in an incident highlighting Poland's environmental dilemma on the eve of a major UN-led conference on climate change. The western Polish city of Poznan will be the venue for the Dec. 1-12 conference aimed at agreeing a …
Poland's prime minister said on Thursday he believed a deal in December on a European Union climate package had come closer following his talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the issue. Poland and other ex-communist EU members are worried that the package, which aims to slash emissions of greenhouse …
The fourth session of AWG-LCA is scheduled on 1-10 Dec. 2008 in Pozna?, Poland. The group will hold three focused in-session workshops on: - Shared vision for long-term cooperative action; - Risk management and risk reduction strategies, including risk sharing and transfer mechanisms such as insurance; - Cooperation on research …
Here the authors report the first worldwide reconnaissance study of the presence and occurrence of pesticides in fruit-based soft drinks. While there are strict regulations and exhaustive controls for pesticides in fruits, vegetables, and drinking water, scarce attention has been paid to highly consumed derivate products, which may contain these …
The negotiating process on climate change revolves around the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP), which meets every year to review the implementation of the Convention. The COP adopts decisions and resolutions, published in reports of the COP. Successive …
Can Stavros Dimas successfully defend the environment against economic gloom? STAVROS DIMAS concedes that his appointment in 2004 as the European Union
China and Poland, both deeply reliant on coal, could collaborate in global climate talks to ensure fighting greenhouse gases does not harm their economies, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday. Tusk, on a four-day visit to Shanghai and Beijing, said he had also discussed with Chinese officials and …
