Search Results for: Environmental Health⊂mit=Search

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL alliance of environmental and conservation organisations is to develop a bird flu early warning system, alerting countries, and even communities, of a looming risk posed by migrating wild birds that may carry the disease. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), Wetlands International, Birdlife International and the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation are planning to help the scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONCILIATION committee linking the European Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has struck a final deal on the shape of a EU directive on the environmental control of extractive mine waste. MEPs and ministers agreed a formula on three key contested areas:

*Proposed delays for Romania and Bulgaria to apply the legislation will go.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about delays in the implementation of a major piece of European Union (EU) environmental legislation have sparked a review by the European Commission, and will encourage it to pursue legal action in the courts. The law in question is the 1996 integrated pollution prevention and control directive, which insists large EU industrial and agricultural installations obtain operating permits – issued only if the best available techniques on controlling emissions are in use.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SATELLITE images of the shrinking Aral Sea in central Asia have long horrified environmentalists, but now similar creeping disasters are threatening the many fresh water and brackish lakes of Africa. These are illustrated by disturbing satellite images within an atlas produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNLIKELY prospect of China – one of the world’s least environment-friendly countries – running a green Olympics has come closer to reality through an agreement with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It has struck a deal with the Beijing Organising Committee for the (2008) summer games (BOCOG), involving the UN agency boosting public awareness of air, water and noise pollution plans focusing on transport, landscaping and waste disposal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION of American States (OAS) and the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) are to develop joint job creating projects in the Americas, including technology promotion, sustainable energy and environmental schemes, among others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL warming doomsayers regularly warn of a catastrophic meltdown of Greenland’s ice cap, switching off the North Atlantic Drift, plunging Britain into the nightmare of Siberia-style winters and turning southern Europe into a desert. But they should check the latest data from the European Space Agency (ESA): it says the Greenland ice cap is getting bigger.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST-EVER multilateral treaty covering the Balkans has been signed in Athens, creating a European Energy Community, linking the gas (and electricity) policies of south-eastern Europe with those of the European Union (EU). Indeed, under the treaty, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria and Kosovo must apply EU energy legislation, including related environmental and competition laws.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN ENVIRONMENTAL organisation has blamed American businesses for dodging safe, but costly recycling methods for their used computer equipment by shipping them to developing countries in an insincere show of philanthropy, which actually causes severe environmental damage.

A report called ‘The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse and Abuse to Africa,’ written by the Seattle-based Basel Action Network, says the bulk of used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS about delays in the implementation of a major piece of European Union (EU) environmental legislation have sparked a review by the European Commission, and will encourage it to pursue legal action in the courts. The law in question is the 1996 integrated pollution prevention and control directive, which insists large EU industrial and agricultural installations obtain operating permits – issued only if the best available techniques on controlling emissions are in use.…