Environment

South East Asian nations meet on reforms to international environmental governance

Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, Malaysia, and the Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) 12 July 2011 Zakri Abdul Hamid Amid

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Data revealing migrations of larval reef fish vital for designing networks of marine protected areas

United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 11 Jul 2011 Networks of biologically-connected marine protected areas need to be carefully

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Global investments in green energy up nearly a third to $211 billion

United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi / Paris 07 Jul 11 China, developing countries are now biggest investors in large-scale renewables while Germany surges ahead on rooftop solar

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Prodigal plankton species makes first known migration from Pacific to Atlantic via Pole

Project CLAMER (Flanders Marine Institute, (VLIZ) Oostende, Belgium, and             Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, Netherlands) 26 Jun 11

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Teeming with life, Pacific’s California current likened to Africa’s Serengeti Plain

Census of Marine Life, Washington DC / Tagging of Pacific Palagics project, Pacific Grove, CA 22 June 2011 Decade of electronic tagging, tracking of 23 top

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Founded on science, world cooperation in Antarctica a model for meeting climate, other challenges

Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, Malaysia and Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) 16 Jun 11 The success of world co-operation based on

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Higher density means world forests are capturing more carbon

Rockefeller University, New York / University of Helsinki 06 Jun 11 Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, US and European

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How to supply sustainable electricity to world’s billions of ‘energy poor’ people

Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, Montreal 02 Jun 11 UN Summit to launch 2012 as ‘International Year of Sustainable Energy for All’ New York – How can the

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Void in leadership on world water crisis cited by 20 former heads of government

InterAction Council, Tokyo 31 May 2001 Clinton, Fox, Zedillo, Chretien, Brundtland among 20 former leaders urging greater effort to avert looming water crisis Former heads

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Dramatically raising low metal recycling rates part of path to green economy: UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi / Paris 26-May-2011 Less than one-third of 60 metals studied have end-of-life recycling rate above 50 percent; 34 are under

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Humanity can and must do more with less: UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi / Paris 12 May 2011 By 2050, humanity could consume an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels

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Former national leaders: Water a global security issue

InterAction Council / United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health 20 March 2011 Water as an “urgent security issue” tops the agenda this

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Malaysia eyes green science, technologies for entry into world’s developed country club; Global titans of science and business volunteer to help Malaysia pioneer an environmentally-sustainable path to high income

Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, Government of Malaysia /  and Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) May 17, 2011 New York

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US EPA joins alliance to curb global e-waste

United Nations University – Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) 1 May 2011 The US Environmental Protection Agency is stepping up international efforts to help curb

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Icy meltwater pooling in Arctic Ocean: A wild card in climate change scenarios

Project CLAMER (Flanders Marine Institute, (VLIZ) Oostende, Belgium, and             Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, Netherlands) 5-Apr-2011 Scientists

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Canada’s role grows amid looming world water shortages in some places, more flooding in others

Canadian Water NetworkWaterloo, Ontario27-Feb-2011 $1 trillion global water market forecast for 2020; Global freshwater demand expected to exceed supply by 40 percent by 2030 Famed

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Put Government Policy Options Through a Science Test First, Leading Biodiversity Experts Urge

Diversitas, Paris 17-Feb-2011 How should a new ‘IPCC for biodiversity’ work? Leading world scientists offer prescription In the journal Science this week, leading scientists say

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Pollutants in aquifers may threaten future of Mexico’s fast-growing ‘Riviera Maya’

United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 6 Feb 2011 Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, shampoo, toothpaste, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many

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Africa Can Feed Itself in a Generation

Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge,MA,USA 2-Dec-2010 Africa can feed itself. And it can make the transition from hungry importer to self-sufficiency in a single generation. The

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Speed installation of system to monitor vital signs of global ocean, scientists urge

Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans Plymouth, UK 1-Oct-2010 ‘It is past time to get serious about measuring what’s happening to the seas around

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Continuing biodiversity loss predicted but could be slowed

Diversitas Paris, France Common approach urged to unify global biodiversity advice. A new analysis of several major global studies of future species shifts and losses

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First Census Shows Life in Planet Ocean is Richer, More Connected, More Altered than Expected

Census of Marine Life Washington DC, USA 4-Oct-2010 Culminating a 10-year exploration, 2,700 scientists from 80 nations report first Census of Marine Life, revealing what,

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