MARKETING ‘COOL’ LIFE-STYLES KEY TO SELLING CLEAN AND GREEN PRODUCTS

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI, 4 February (UNEP) -- Psychologists and human behaviourists are being enlisted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in a pioneering new initiative to save the planet.

GOVERNMENTS REACH AGREEMENT ON NEW UNITED NATIONS TREATY

ON POLLUTION INFORMATION DISCLOSURE

(Reissued as received; delayed in transmission.)

GENEVA, 31 January (UNECE) -- Negotiations on a new international treaty under which companies will be required to publicly disclose information on their output of pollutants came to a successful conclusion in Geneva yesterday evening.

POWER STATIONS THREATEN PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE WITH MERCURY POISONING;

GLOBAL STUDY OF THIS HAZARDOUS HEAVY METAL RELEASED

UNEP's Governing Council 3 to 7 February

(Reissued as received.)

NAIROBI, 3 February (United Nations Environment Programme) -- Mercury poisoning of the planet could be significantly reduced by curbing pollution from power stations, a new report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests.

AIR POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE –- TACKLING BOTH PROBLEMS IN TANDEM

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Commission on Sustainable Development

Eleventh Session

1^st Meeting (AM)

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ELECTS OFFICERS FOR ELEVENTH SESSION,

TO BE HELD AT HEADQUARTERS 28 APRIL - 9 MAY

SWITCH TO UNLEADED FUEL ‘IN SIGHT’ FOR AFRICA, ACCORDING TO NEW

UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME REPORT

NAIROBI, 22 January (UNEP) -- An international effort to phase out lead, the health-hazardous heavy metal, from petrol is accelerating as increasing numbers of African countries switch to unleaded fuel.

12 December 2002

Leading manufacturers and Basel Convention to cooperate on environmentally

sound management of end-of-life mobile phones

(Reissued as received.)

Launch of the International

Year of Freshwater 2003

FRESHWATER ISSUES AT ‘HEART OF HUMANKIND’S HOPES FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT’,

SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL AT EVENT TO LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL YEAR

UNITED NATIONS LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF FRESHWATER

TO GALVANIZE ACTION ON CRITICAL WATER PROBLEMS

$573 MILLION IN FUNDING AGREED FOR CUTTING DEVELOPING COUNTRY CFCs BY 50 PER CENT

(Delayed for technical reasons.)

ROME, 29 November (UNEP) -- Negotiators from some 140 governments have adopted a $573 million funding package to halve the consumption and production in developing countries of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) -- the leading destroyer of the stratospheric ozone layer -- by the year 2005 (relative to a baseline of average 1995-1997 levels).