Environmental issues and sustainable development

Commission on Sustainable Development                      

Twelfth Session                                            

Commission on Sustainable Development                      

Twelfth Session                                            

3^rd Meeting (PM)

Commission on Sustainable Development                      

Twelfth Session                                            

Background Release                                         

Commission on sustainable development to meet 14 – 30 april with focus

on safe water, sanitation, human settlements

First Three Days to Consider Preparation

Clean Development Mechanism ready to register first projects

(Reissued as received.)

NORTH-EAST ASIAN DUST AND SAND STORMS GROWING IN SCALE AND INTENSITY;

UNEP WARNS OF ‘THE GLOBALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS’

(Reissued as received.)

JEJU/NAIROBI, 31 March (UNEP) -- Dust and sand storms are plaguing North-East Asia nearly five times as often as they were in the 1950s, environment ministers from around the world learned today.

THROW AWAY SOCIETY NEW THREAT TO ISLAND PARADISES

(Reissued as received.)

JEJU/NAIROBI, 30 March (UNEP) -- Urgent international assistance is needed to help small island States deal with a rising tide of rubbish and wastes.

METHYL BROMIDE APPROVED FOR TEMPORARY USES

AFTER MONTREAL PROTOCOL PHASE-OUT DEADLINE

(Reissued as received.)

MONTREAL, 26 March (UNEP) -- An intergovernmental meeting here on the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has granted limited “critical use exemptions” to 11 developed countries facing a year-end deadline for phasing out methyl bromide.

DEAD ZONES EMERGING AS BIG THREAT TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FISH STOCKS

Eighth Special Session of Governing Council of United Nations

Environment Programme and Global Ministerial Environment Forum, 29-31 March 2004

(Reissued as received.)

Montreal Protocol Talks to Consider Exemptions From Methyl Bromide Ban

MONTREAL/NAIROBI, 23 March (UNEP) -- A three-day meeting of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will consider granting exemptions to 12 developed countries so that they can use the pesticide methyl bromide for certain “critical uses” after its phase-out date of 1 January 2005.