Environmental concerns

Environmental issues play an increasingly important role in this sector.

Only after its ratification did the first environmental issues arise.

Waste management is one of the major environmental issues within the Pacific region.

The Thirty Second Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (Session of Integration and Development), held in Sana'a, Republic of Yemen, from 21 to 23 Jumad ul Awwal 1426H (28 30 June 2005),

Environmental, climate, and energy issues concern everyone.

All Parties highlighted the urgent need to adopt an integrated approach in dealing with environmental, social and economic issues.

It is by far the most impressive elaboration of principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, which stresses the need for citizens' participation in environmental issues and for access to information on the environment held by public authorities.

He noted the importance of working with the stakeholders of other multilateral environmental agreements on cross cutting issues such as legislation and customs training.

The implementation of sustainability in tourism can also be supported through the effective implementation of multilateral environmental agreements, which aim to tackle environmental issues, and activities that could have transboundary environmental effects.

But as I got more involved in the story, I realized that there were two big environmental issues I couldn't ignore.

UNEP and the FIFA 2006 World Cup Organizing Committee entered into an agreement to promote the incorporation of environmental issues and provide support to the monitoring of environmental programmes in the preparation and staging of the 2006 World Cup.

His delegation supported UNIDO's efforts to enhance cooperation with other international entities dealing with environmental issues as a way of achieving synergies.

With the adoption of those decisions, the international community had made an important step towards addressing one of the most pressing environmental issues by implementing an effective mechanism to curb emissions.

The first story that I did for National Geographic, where I recognized the ability to include environmental issues within a natural history coverage, was a story I proposed on harp seals.

America s unwillingness to take the lead on environmental issues may some day be regarded as one of the country s most profound political failures.

Political activity had begun already in the early 1980s, when environmental activists, feminists and other active groups began to campaign on Green issues in Finland.

China s environmental activists, meanwhile, have focused on the politically safe issues of protecting biodiversity, recycling, and environmental education.

Indonesia's high population and rapid industrialisation present serious environmental issues, which are often given a lower priority due to high poverty levels and weak, under resourced governance.

Young people generally report that the proposal for action to enhance the role of the media as a tool for the dissemination of information on environmental issues has not been widely implemented.

In 2004, UNHCR continued its efforts to incorporate environmental concerns into all aspects of refugee operations, albeit in a relatively modest way due to limited resources.

And my urging is that when we think about environmental issues that we remember that it's not just about melting glaciers and ice caps, but it's also about our children as well.

Environmentalism Spring green may be used to represent the green movement, especially in graphic design for environmental literature regarding issues having to do with water resources or water conservation.

There are now more than 400 regional and universal multilateral environmental treaties in force, covering a broad range of environmental issues, including biodiversity, climate change and desertification.

(b) The emerging issues examined in the Global Environment Outlook Yearbook 2006, which are the environmental effects of the practice of farming of marine species and the overall impacts of global warming on food production.

Alongside the traditional causes of mass exodus, the Secretary General identified a number of specific environmental issues that had the potential to provoke mass exoduses in the future.

These countries have been more hesitant in trade matters, more ambiguous in the instruments they have chosen for managing the crisis, and remain reluctant to deal with environmental issues.

Last but not least, the Bank needs to play a much bigger role in environmental issues and, in general, in promoting good international citizenship by both rich and poor countries.

Environmental issues The main environmental issues affecting Colombia are deforestation soil and water quality damage from overuse of pesticides air pollution, especially in Bogota, from vehicle emissions and other main cities.

A legal framework would give forest related issues the same status as other issues covered by multilateral environmental agreements, which would also help secure more efficient coordination.

The environment outlook reports, Atlantic and Indian Oceans Environment Outlook, Caribbean Environment Outlook and Pacific Environment Outlook, are available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish as appropriate.

Environmental activities

11.20 The Division of Environmental Conventions is responsible for the implementation of this subprogramme.

Regional Cooperation and Representation

Environmental accounting

It is a combination of many factors, not the least of which is the environment. Russia will not have to deal with the environmental debate of the Keystone Pipeline, but such issues are very much in the Chinese public s mindset these days.

On this journey, I'd like to bring, apart from yourselves, a good friend, a stakeholder, who's always absent when we deal with the negotiations on environmental issues, a stakeholder who refuses to compromise planet Earth.

The Committee for Environmental Protection that has met eight times since the entry into force of the Madrid Protocol on 14 January 1998 continues to be a dynamic forum to discuss and address environmental issues related to human activities.

To improve and accomplish the environmental legislation, by increasing the fiscalization, control and monitoring of the environment.

The participants also noted the low level of awareness raising, education and exchange of information on issues relating to the global environmental conventions, and highlighted the need to prepare a national action plan on capacity building for implementing the conventions.

(c) Expressed its appreciation for the good work being carried out by the London Group on Environmental Accounting and reconfirmed its role as an expert body in charge of methodological issues, which would support the work of the Committee

Sovereign Environmental Risk

Maged George, Minster of State for Environmental Affairs.

C. Environmental sustainability

(b) Environmental Health