Incontro dei direttori delle agenzie europee per l'ambiente e la natura
L'11 e il 12 maggio 2009, una trentina di direttori delle agenzie europee per l'ambiente e la natura provenienti da 24 Paesi si incontreranno a Locarno per uno scambio di informazioni e di esperienze sull'attuazione della politica ambientale. Le discussioni verteranno in particolare sui cambiamenti climatici, sulla biodiversità e, non da ultimo, sui legami tra commercio e ambiente. (...)
UNESCO’s Internet Forum “On the Frontlines of Climate Change”
“On the Frontlines of Climate Change,” an internet forum launched by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in partnership with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), has published an article on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).(...)
The 5th World Environmental Education Congress takes place May 10 to 14, 2009, at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal. Jointly organized by Congress co-chairs Bob Jickling of Ontario's Lakehead University and Lucie Sauvé of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), along with the Association québécoise pour la promotion de l'éducation relative à l'environnement (AQPERE) and the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM), this event follows in the footsteps of other World Environmental Education Congresses (WEEC) coordinated by the WEEC Secretariat.
The vision for this World Environmental Education Congress is “Earth, our common home”. This is the “Oïkos,” or shared household, in which all life exists and in which all human and more-than-human activity rests. This “household” is the basis for all relationships and foundation for ideas about identity, solidarity, and socio-ecological relations with all forms of life. It is also the context that gives rise to ecology, ecosophy, and economy and relationships amongst them. This Congress will examine contributions that environmental education can make towards the development of relationships amongst these spheres of understanding at a critical period in Earth's history, when we need to profoundly and urgently realign human endeavour within the capacities, limits, and systems of our home.
Extensive climate change is now affecting every form of life in the Arctic, according to a major new assessment by international polar scientists. In the past four years, air temperatures have increased, sea ice has declined sharply, surface waters in the Arctic ocean have warmed and permafrost is in some areas rapidly thawing. In addition, says the report released today at a Norwegian government seminar, plants and trees are growing more vigorously, snow cover is decreasing 1-2% a year and glaciers are shrinking. Scientists from Norway, Canada, Russia and the US contributed to the Arctic monitoring and assessment programme (Amap) study, which says new factors such as "black carbon" – soot – ozone and methane may now be contributing to global and arctic warming as much as carbon dioxide.(...)
Due studi diffusi in questi giorni illustrano come il riscaldamento globale del clima contribuisca a prosciugare alcuni dei grandi fiumi del pianeta, e allo stesso tempo abbia messo sotto stress le grandi foreste.(...)
La semplicità è la sua forza: composto soltanto da due scatole di cartone, Kyoto-box è il forno ad energia solare che ha vinto il Climate Change Challenge, la gara per le eco- invenzioni organizzata dal Financial Times, e che promette una incredibile rivoluzione. (...)
