Biodiversity Loss - It Will Make You Sick

"Sustaining Life" Identifies Huge Losses to Medical Science from the Decline and Extinction of the World's Nature-Based Assets
Singapore/Nairobi, 24 April - A new generation of antibiotics, new treatments for thinning bone disease and kidney failure, and new cancer treatments may all stand to be lost unless the world acts to reverse the present alarming rate of biodiversity loss a new landmark book says. The natural world holds secrets to the development of new kinds of safer and more powerful pain-killers; treatments for a leading cause of blindness- macular degeneration- and possibly ways of re-growing lost tissues and organs by, for example studying newts and salamanders.

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Global Economy Gets a Little Greener

Ten New Participants Join UNEP's Climate Neutral Network at the Global Business for the Environment Summit in Singapore

Singapore/Nairobi, 23 April 2008-What brings together a Latin American beauty corporation, a boutique French advertising agency, a UK-based sustainability think-tank and a Brazilian online carbon trading venture?

All of them have pledged to significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions en route to zero emissions by joining the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), a web-based forum to catalyze a transition to a low-carbon world set up by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with the UN's Environment Management Group.

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