Environmental concerns

Environmental issues play an increasingly important role in this sector.

Strong partnerships have been established with other agencies and organizations working on urban related issues, including the International Development Research Centre, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, and UN Habitat.

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.

The Programme has a very broad mandate and, under the themes of urban governance, sustainable development and shelter, it covers a wide range of 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.

There were three plenary meetings, partners' dialogues on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic dialogues on urban poor, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services and urban disasters and reconstruction.

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.

The Forum consisted of dialogues among partners on urban culture, urban realities, urban governance and urban renaissance, as well as thematic discussions on urban poverty, urban resources, urban sustainability, urban services, and urban disasters and reconstruction.

In order to reduce the environmental impact caused by transportation in metropolitan areas, sustainable transportation has three widely agreed upon pillars that it utilizes to create more healthy and productive urban centers.

A prototype hydrogen fueling station was built in compliance with all of the prevailing safety, environmental and building codes in Phoenix to demonstrate that such fueling stations could be built in urban areas.

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.

The bank has 38 branches, primarily concentrated in urban and semi urban areas.

In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy.

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.

This is in keeping with the general trend in the world that more specialized care is available in urban centers than in rural areas due to better support facilities in the urban centers.

of population living in extreme poverty

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.

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Urban Millennium Partnership

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.

According to the RUAF Foundation, urban farming is different from rural agriculture because it is integrated into the urban economic and ecological system urban agriculture is embedded in and interacting with the urban ecosystem.

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.