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Environmental issues and sustainable development


UNEP/292
17/06
Press Release
UNEP/292

WORLD LEADERS URGED TO PUT ‘NATURAL CAPITAL’ AT CENTRE OF POVERTY ERADICATION


2005 World Summit Must Be Red Ribbon Day for Environment, Says UNEP Head


(Reissued as received.)


NAIROBI, 17 June (UNEP) -- Sound and solid investment in the environment will go a long way towards meeting international targets on poverty reduction, the supply of drinking water and fighting the spread of infectious diseases, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.

ENV/DEV/861-SAG/371
08/06/2005
Press Release
ENV/DEV/861
SAG/371

CATTLE RANCHING IS ENCROACHING ON FORESTS IN LATIN AMERICA


Causing Severe Environmental Degradation – FAOModelPredictsLand Use up to 2010


(Reissued as received.)

UNEP/290
06/06/2005
Press Release
UNEP/290

‘ONE PLANET MANY PEOPLE’ ATLAS LAUNCHED TO MARK WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2005


(Reissued as received.)


SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON/NAIROBI, 3 June (UNEP) -- The dramatic and, in some cases, damaging environmental changes sweeping planet Earth are brought into sharp focus in a new atlas launched to mark World Environment Day (WED).

UNEP/289
31/05/2005
Press Release
UNEP/289

MONTREAL CONFERENCE TO CLARIFY SHIPPING DOCUMENTATION RULES

 

FOR GENETICALLY MODIFIED COMMODITIES

 


(Reissued as received.)


MONTREAL, 30 May (UNEP) -- The 119 member governments to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety are meeting here this week until 3 June to clarify international trade rules for genetically modified commodities.

UNEP/288
26/05/2005
Press Release
UNEP/288

GOVERNMENTS RECEIVE NEW HELP IN INVENTORYING HAZARDOUS PCBS,


ASSESSING EXISTING RISKS

 


(Reissued as received.)


GENEVA, 26 May (UNEP) -- The Secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous and Other Wastes is releasing a new toolkit today to support decision-making in the inventorying and management of PCBs and PCB-containing equipment.

ENV/DEV/858
26/5/2005
Press Release
ENV/DEV/858

United Nations Forum on Forests

Fifth Session

9th & 10th Meetings (AM & PM)*


MINISTERS EXAMINE WAYS TO STRENGTHEN SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS


AS UN FOREST FORUM CONCLUDES TWO-DAY HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT


Chairman Will Prepare Summary of Policy Dialogue,

With No Agreement Reached on Proposed Ministerial Declaration