From Soil Carbon to Nuclear Reactors: UNEP Yearbook Outlines Major Emerging Issues for Global Environment
Press Conference Venue: Press Room, UNEP Headquarters, Gigiri
Time: 11:00am, Monday 13 February 2012
Speakers: Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director
Tessa Goverse, UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment
Nairobi, 9 February 2012 – The dramatic loss of carbon from soils – and the implications for food security, climate change and the health of ecosystems – is among the main themes of the United Nations Environment Programme's 2012 Yearbook.
The flagship publication, to be launched on 13 February 2012 at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, shows that soil erosion due to traditional agriculture is occurring 100 times faster than soil's natural formation process.
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