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Climate Thinkers - Nicholas Stern
Prof. Nicholas Stern.
Author, The Economics of Climate Change.
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Climate Thinkers - Pavan Sukhdev
Pavan Sukhdev. Green Economy Initiative, UNEP
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The Road To Copenhagen (Peugeot-Citroen)
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Africa Water Resources
Africa Water Resources Atlas: challenges and opportunities - combines visual time series imagery to visually show how climate change threatens the fresh water resources on the African continent. Using satellite pictures taken over long periods of time, the atlas now makes it possible for us to see changes that we were not able to see just 10 to 20 years ago. In addition, complex scientific studies accumulated over numbers of years is now presented in a user friendly form that all can under
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Share The Road
For the majority of people in developing countries the only viable mobility options are walking, cycling and public transport. Yet with deteriorating, or non-existent, infrastructure for non-motorised transport and public transport, these low-carbon modes are becoming increasingly unsafe. Share the Road: Minimum 10% Finance for Safety, Environment and Accessibility is a joint UNEP - Foundation for the Automobile and Society initiative.
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Journey to the Polar Ice Rim
A behind the scenes look at the UN Secretary-General's recent visit to the Arctic where he witnessed first hand the rapid effects on the local environment caused by global warming.
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REDD Alert
Could carbon become the developing world's new cash crop? Tropical forests store a quarter of the earths carbon and suck in 15 per cent of all the CO2 we emit each year. A new international concept called REDD, aims to make tropical forests more valuable as living, breathing ecosystems than if they are cleared for farmland. Earth Report travels to the vast rainforests of Africas Congo Basin, to find out if forests can realistically pay their way as global carbon stores and who exactly will benef
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6 Billion Others - Climate voices
Climate change is amongst the most important global challenges with which millions of people will have to content. For this film, 600 interviews were conducted in 17 countries. Testimonies were not only gathered from people whose lives are directly affected by climate change, but also in countries where the issue is far from people’s concerns.
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Floating Gardens
Bangladesh faces severe problems as a consequence of storms, cyclones and floods. The ancient practice of floating gardens - beds of straw and water hyacinths on which crops are grown - is making a comeback in the face of increased floods.
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Sinking Islands
In the south of Bangladesh, islands are literally being washed away by tidal surges and storms, as a consequence of climate change in the country.
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Yellow River Blues
The sixth longest in the world, the Yellow River and its basin have been associated with China’s prosperity for thousands of years. In recent decades, rapid economic development has increased the river’s pollution and sediment levels, posing major challenges in managing its water for agriculture, industry, power generation and domestic uses. A new study cautions that climate change can reduce the volume of water, adding pressure on all sectors to share water more efficiently and care
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Janos Pasztor, UN Climate Change Team
Janos Pasztor, Director of the Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, expresses concern that just weeks away from the United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen, public support in the United States may be declining.
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Ban Ki-moon on "The Road to Copenhagen"
An interview with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the current state of climate change and what needs to be done by all the stakeholders.
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Connie Hedegaard,Minister of Climate and Energy Denmark on Seal the Deal
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Connie Hedegaard,Minister of Climate and Energy Denmark on Seal the Deal
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Ulla Tornaes Minister for Development Cooperation, Denmark
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George Schaller’s message to the Year of the Gorilla
World renowned conservationist George Schaller, one of the first to look at gorillas from a modern, scientific perspective, gives a recount of his experiences and an outlook on the future and obstacles of gorilla conservation. Year of the Gorilla web site <http://www.yog2009.org/>
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REDD as part of the solution
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries - is an effort to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests.
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Creeping Deserts
In West Africa,the Sahara desert is growing by thousands of square kilometres a year and the search for water for people and their animals becomes ever more desperate.
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Melting Glaciers
A young well-educated Sherpa takes a journey back to his ancestral village in the Himalayas, to see for himself the problems his people face as a consequence of global warming.
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Drip Irrigation- Senegal
Drip irrigation has become popular in Senegal, where an Israeli NGO is
teaching farmers the simple technique that gives them control over
their crops and does not leave them entirely at the mercy of the
climate.
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Boat Schools - Bangladesh
This short film highlights the innovative introduction of floating schools to flood prone Bangladesh.
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Swapping Crops
For millenniums the people of southern Nepal have grown rice - in a country where the grain is a symbol of worship, other crops are considered unworthy. But monsoon rains, which rice cultivation so desperately depends on, have become increasingly erratic, leading farmers to think, and in some cases implement, the unthinkable - bananas!
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Holy Forests
The story of a Buddhist monk who in the 1990’s started re-planting a forest that had been destroyed by US bombing during the Vietnam war, and logging companies thereafter. His interest at first was to create a place to meditate, but as time passed he started to realise that his forest could also help mitigate the effects of climate change on nearby farming communities.
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Cambodia’s Lake
Tonle Sap lake in central Cambodia used to be a fisherman’s heaven, but growing population pressures, the advent of commercial fishing, and the onset of climate change have left the fishermen who live in beautiful floating villages on the lake shore in dire straits.
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The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Mitigation
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Escaping Floods- Mozambique
All along the banks of the Zambezi, vulnerable populations are being moved to resettlement sites, where they are safe from the floods but no longer have access to their farms and livelihoods. Rebuilding them is proving difficult.
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HOME: a film by Yann Arthus Bertrand
HOME is a travel notebook, showing landscapes captured from a bird’s eye view above. This film calls for a new awareness, inviting the viewer to stop for a moment in order to look at our planet and realize how we treat her treasures and her beauty. The film will be internationally released on World Environment Day
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Kenya’s Invasive Species
In Kenya, invasive plant and insect species have made farmers who rely on mango and avocado export redundant; they have wiped out entire flower farms and they threaten indigenous plant and animal species in protected and unprotected areas.
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Harvesting Rain-Kenya
In the arid farmlands of eastern Kenya, a German NGO has been helping communities to harvest rain. Using the occasional rock features that interrupt the otherwise flat landscape, they are building simple reservoirs to catch rainwater as it runs down the rock face.
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Highland Malaria
As temperatures continue to warm around the world, malaria looks over to strengthen its hold over communities.
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The Mau Forest Complex in Kenya
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The aliens have landed! Burmese python - USA
Invasive Species are plants, animals or micro-organisms whose introduction to a new ecosystem threatens biodiversity, as well as food security, human health, trade, transport and/or economic development. According to one calculation, the economic damage from invading alien species might be costing the global economy more than any other form of environmental disruption – $1.4 trillion a year.
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The aliens have landed! Zebra mussels - USA
Native to the Caspian and Black Seas, Zebra mussels affect fisheries, mollusc diversity, and electric power generation in the Great Lakes in North America and Mississippi basin.
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Ozone and Climate Change
The Montreal Protocol focuses on the protection of the earth’s ozone layer. This treaty has enabled both developed and developing countries to achieve a near total phase-out in the production and use of most ozone depleting substances.
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The Aliens have landed! Cane toads - Australia
Invasive Species are plants, animals or micro-organisms whose introduction to a new ecosystem threatens biodiversity, as well as food security, human health, trade, transport and/or economic development. Invading alien species might be costing the global economy more than any other form of environmental disruption – $1.4 trillion a year.
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What if...
What if...The Earth’s protective ozone layer was destroyed? What if...The gases that cause climate change were double what they are today?
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The aliens have landed! Love grass - Brazil.
Invasive Species are plants, animals or micro-organisms whose introduction to a new ecosystem threatens biodiversity, as well as food security, human health, trade, transport and/or economic development. According to one calculation, the economic damage from invading alien species might be costing the global economy more than any other form of environmental disruption – $1.4 trillion a year.
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Seal the Deal! Public Service Announcement
Inspiring figures here who have joined the Seal the Deal! campaign, and given us their time, talent and energy to help combat Climate Change.
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- [中文] - [Français] - [Portuguese] - [Español]
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Towards a low- carbon future Debate
Making the climate case neutral to the public.
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Gisele - let’s work together for the future of the planet
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Mekong: Watch that River
South East Asia’s largest river, the Mekong, has withstood decades of pressure from rising human numbers, growing industrial activity and more demands for water and food. Scientists working for UNEP have found how climate change could upset this balance in the coming years and decades.
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Persistent Organic Pollutants
Some Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) were used for special purposes such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the electric and electronic industry.But the long-lasting negative effects of these pollutants have now penetrated food chains and are contaminating both animals and human beings.
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Trade me
Trade Me is New Zealand’s largest eCommerce company and the country’s most visited website with over 1.9 million members. Through online auctions alone, kiwis buy, sell and reuse over 6 million used items every year, reducing waste to landfill and saving the energy and resources required to produce new items. In April 2008 Trade Me became carbon neutral and facilitated the first trade of Kyoto credits in New Zealand.
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Highland Malaria
As temperatures continue to warm around the world, malaria looks over to strengthen its hold over communities.
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Ocean Acidification
The scientists note that ocean acidification is already detectable and is accelerating. They caution that its negative impacts can be avoided only by limiting future atmospheric CO2 levels.
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Janine Benyus - Biomimicry Institute
Champions of the Earth 2009 - As the President of the Biomimicry institute in Montana, Mrs. Benyus consults with sustainable business, academic and government leaders on what we can learn from nature’s genius.
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Yann Arthus Bertrand - GoodPlanet.org
Champions of the Earth 2009 - French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has helped people around the world see our planet in a new light - beautiful, fragile, threatened - through his breathtaking aerial photographs from the remotest parts of the globe.
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Khatun’s Green Revenge
Cleaning the environment and securing a sustainable future for the planet can create millions of green jobs. In India the Self Employed Women’s Association – SEWA – has brought together over a million women toiling in the informal sector and is already putting into practice each and every element of a sustainable green economy.
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Ron Gonen - Recycle Bank
Champions of the Earth 2009 - As CEO and Co-founder, Mr. Gonen believes that by offering rewards which can be redeemed for consumer products at over1,400 local and national retailers, people are motivated to recycle more.
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Green future for women in India
From garment workers earning less than a dollar a day to engineers in renewable energy. In Bangladesh the Grameen Shakti have 2 million solar panels installed and creating women entrepreneurs, they are providing green energy, a green economy and green jobs providing a decent living to local women.
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Tulsi Tanti - Suzlon Energy
Champions of the Earth 2009 - Suzlon Energy is the fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world and the largest in Asia. Chairman and Managing Director, Tulsi Tanti, is credited for advocating "green business is good business."
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Freshwater under Threat South Asia: Crowded Land, Drying Rivers
Rising temperatures are fast melting glaciers in the Himalayas, the origin of major rivers flowing across the Indian subcontinent. Reduced river flow can upset water balance for millions. Meanwhile, rapidly swelling glacial lakes can trigger flash floods. Based on Vulnerability Assessment of Freshwater Resources to Environmental Change report series <http://www.roap.unep.org/pub/index.cfm>
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Minister of the Environment and International Development, Norway
Champions of the Earth 2009 - Mr. Solheim places the environment at the forefront of European politics. As a strong advocate of the integral relationship between environment and development, he has been a key supporter of environmental actions at national and global levels.
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George Schaller’s message to the Year of the Gorilla
World renowned conservationist George Schaller, one of the first to look at gorillas from a modern, scientific perspective, gives a recount of his experiences and an outlook on the future and obstacles of gorilla conservation. Year of the Gorilla web site <http://www.yog2009.org/>
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Kevin Conrad and the Coalition for Rain forest Nations
Champions of the Earth 2009 - Mr. Conrad has become a tireless and vocal campaigner on better aligning fiscal and market incentives for improved management of tropical forests that better capture the economically-central services they provide to communities and to the global community.
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Creeping Deserts
In West Africa,the Sahara desert is growing by thousands of square kilometres a year and the search for water for people and their animals becomes ever more desperate.
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Tena Kebena and Ginfle Cleaning Association
Champions of the Earth 2009 - The association was created to celebrate the new generation of dynamic,passionate individuals and organizations around the world who are making a real difference for the environment.
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Melting Glaciers
A young well-educated Sherpa takes a journey back to his ancestral village in the Himalayas, to see for himself the problems his people face as a consequence of global warming.
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H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco-France
Champions of the Earth 2008 - For his remarkable commitment to sustainable development in Monaco. Under his leadership, Monaco is now applying an exemplary policy on CO2 reduction in every sphere of society as well as in the business sector.
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Swapping Crops
For millenniums the people of southern Nepal have grown rice - in a country where the grain is a symbol of worship, other crops are considered unworthy. But monsoon rains, which rice cultivation so desperately depends on, have become increasingly erratic, leading farmers to think, and in some cases implement, the unthinkable - bananas!
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H. E. Liz Thompson-Barbados
Champions of the Earth 2008 - For her outstanding work at the national and international levels. She is one of the recognized leaders on environmental issues of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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Holy Forests
The story of a Buddhist monk who in the 1990’s started re-planting a forest that had been destroyed by US bombing during the Vietnam war, and logging companies thereafter. His interest at first was to create a place to meditate, but as time passed he started to realise that his forest could also help mitigate the effects of climate change on nearby farming communities.
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Timothy E. Wirth - USA
Champions of the Earth 2008 - For his work as the head of the UN Foundation and Better World Fund, he established the environment as a priority and mobilized resources to address it.
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HOME: a film by Yann Arthus Bertrand
HOME is a travel notebook, showing landscapes captured from a bird’s eye view above. This film calls for a new awareness, inviting the viewer to stop for a moment in order to look at our planet and realize how we treat her treasures and her beauty. The film will be internationally released on World Environment Day
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H.E. Abdul-Qader Ba-Jammal-Yemen
Champions of the Earth 2008 - For his environmental policies as Minister and then as Prime Minister in Yemen. He established its Ministry of Water and Environment and the Environment Protection Authority.
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Kenya’s Invasive Species
In Kenya, invasive plant and insect species have made farmers who rely on mango and avocado export redundant; they have wiped out entire flower farms and they threaten indigenous plant and animal species in protected and unprotected areas.
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Delta Force
Earth Report finds out how communities are preparing themselves for increasing flooding and sea level rise caused by climate change. The Zambezi, Africa’s fourth longest river is Mozambique’s lifeblood. The delta is a vast area of fertile farmland. But flooding is becoming more frequent.
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Earth Hour
A World Wildlife Fund (WWF) initiative, Earth Hour has the goal of motivating one billion people in more than 1,000 cities around the world to switch off their lights for one hour on Saturday 28 March 2009 .Its a symbolic global event which aims to send a powerful message,it’s possible for everyone to take action on climate change.
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The aliens have landed! Burmese python - USA
Invasive Species are plants, animals or micro-organisms whose introduction to a new ecosystem threatens biodiversity, as well as food security, human health, trade, transport and/or economic development. According to one calculation, the economic damage from invading alien species might be costing the global economy more than any other form of environmental disruption – $1.4 trillion a year.
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Lead PhaseOut-Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles
Air pollution is estimated to cause 800,000 deaths each year and costs the global economy 1billion dollars each year.
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The aliens have landed! Zebra mussels - USA
Native to the Caspian and Black Seas, Zebra mussels affect fisheries, mollusc diversity, and electric power generation in the Great Lakes in North America and Mississippi basin.
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Mt.Kilimanjaro Initiative
Every year the Kilimanjaro Initiative, a Nairobi-based NGO, organizes an ascent to the rooftop of Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro. The climb brings together youth from various slums in Africa, as well as participants from the public and private sector.
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The Aliens have landed! Cane toads - Australia
Invasive Species are plants, animals or micro-organisms whose introduction to a new ecosystem threatens biodiversity, as well as food security, human health, trade, transport and/or economic development. Invading alien species might be costing the global economy more than any other form of environmental disruption – $1.4 trillion a year.
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The aliens have landed! Love grass - Brazil.
Invasive Species are plants, animals or micro-organisms whose introduction to a new ecosystem threatens biodiversity, as well as food security, human health, trade, transport and/or economic development. According to one calculation, the economic damage from invading alien species might be costing the global economy more than any other form of environmental disruption – $1.4 trillion a year.
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Naivasha : Story of an African Rift Valley lake
This short film explores the environmental pressures threatening Lake Naivasha, a fresh water lake in Kenya’s Rift Valley. It looks at the importance of the lake for the Kenyan economy and for the communities around it.
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Towards a low- carbon future Debate
Making the climate case neutral to the public.
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Escaping Floods- Mozambique
All along the banks of the Zambezi, vulnerable populations are being moved to resettlement sites, where they are safe from the floods but no longer have access to their farms and livelihoods. Rebuilding them is proving difficult.
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Mekong: Watch that River
South East Asia’s largest river, the Mekong, has withstood decades of pressure from rising human numbers, growing industrial activity and more demands for water and food. Scientists working for UNEP have found how climate change could upset this balance in the coming years and decades.
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Harvesting Rain-Kenya
In the arid farmlands of eastern Kenya, a German NGO has been helping communities to harvest rain. Using the occasional rock features that interrupt the otherwise flat landscape, they are building simple reservoirs to catch rainwater as it runs down the rock face.
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Persistent Organic Pollutants
Some Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) were used for special purposes such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the electric and electronic industry.But the long-lasting negative effects of these pollutants have now penetrated food chains and are contaminating both animals and human beings.
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Drip Irrigation- Senegal
Drip irrigation has become popular in Senegal, where an Israeli NGO is
teaching farmers the simple technique that gives them control over
their crops and does not leave them entirely at the mercy of the
climate.
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Ocean Acidification
The scientists note that ocean acidification is already detectable and is accelerating. They caution that its negative impacts can be avoided only by limiting future atmospheric CO2 levels.
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After The Wave
When the Asian Tsunami struck in December 2004,over 200,000 people were killed and 1.5 million left homeless. We travel to Thailand Sri Lanka and Indonesia to investigate what has happened "after the Wave"
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Janine Benyus - Biomimicry Institute
Champions of the Earth 2009 - As the President of the Biomimicry institute in Montana, Mrs. Benyus consults with sustainable business, academic and government leaders on what we can learn from nature’s genius.
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Sink Or Swim
There is a dramatic increase in the frequency and magnitude of disasters caused by extreme weather. Even average weather no longer folllows predictable patterns.
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Yann Arthus Bertrand - GoodPlanet.org
Champions of the Earth 2009 - French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has helped people around the world see our planet in a new light - beautiful, fragile, threatened - through his breathtaking aerial photographs from the remotest parts of the globe.
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Timber Future
Tracking the rainforest by satellite, scientists at the NASA Earth Observatory estimate that if the current rate of deforestation continues, the world’s rainforests will vanish within 100 years. The destruction, they say, will cause unquantifiable effects on global climate, and eliminate the majority of plant and animal species on the planet.
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Ron Gonen - Recycle Bank
Champions of the Earth 2009 - As CEO and Co-founder, Mr. Gonen believes that by offering rewards which can be redeemed for consumer products at over1,400 local and national retailers, people are motivated to recycle more.
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Tulsi Tanti - Suzlon Energy
Champions of the Earth 2009 - Suzlon Energy is the fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world and the largest in Asia. Chairman and Managing Director, Tulsi Tanti, is credited for advocating "green business is good business."
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Nor any Drop to Drink
Looking at how countries in the Middle East are beginning to confront the stark reality of too many people and too little water.Innovative ideas at local level often provide solutions for local water shortages.
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Minister of the Environment and International Development, Norway
Champions of the Earth 2009 - Mr. Solheim places the environment at the forefront of European politics. As a strong advocate of the integral relationship between environment and development, he has been a key supporter of environmental actions at national and global levels.
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SUMAWA - Research for Life
Achieving Sustainable Watersheds: Research4Life’s OARE platform helps researchers in Kenya address local environmental challenges. OARE is an international public-private consortium coordinated by UNEP, Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers.
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Kevin Conrad and the Coalition for Rain forest Nations
Champions of the Earth 2009 - Mr. Conrad has become a tireless and vocal campaigner on better aligning fiscal and market incentives for improved management of tropical forests that better capture the economically-central services they provide to communities and to the global community.
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Trees For Love
Prof. Wangari Maathai wraps up a heart warming short film about a tree planting event in Nairobi, Kenya to celebrate Valentines Day.
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Tena Kebena and Ginfle Cleaning Association
Champions of the Earth 2009 - The association was created to celebrate the new generation of dynamic,passionate individuals and organizations around the world who are making a real difference for the environment.
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Green is the New Big Deal
The Global Green New Deal , part of the UNEP Green Economy initiative, for ministers from the North and the South attending UNEP Governing Council is an anti-dote to the current economic woes. It represents an opportunity to accelerate towards innovation-led, low carbon, low waste Green Economy societies with decent employment prospects for many more millions of people.
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Breathing Hope into Kabul
Toxic car fumes and heavy dependency on firewood are fast becoming a significant problem in Kabul.Residents rely on firewood for their basic needs, heating construction and cooking. This leads to emissions of ultra fine particles to the atmosphere which has an increased impact on health.Air pollution in Kabul has led to 2,000 deaths annually.These problems arise mostly due to lack of electricity.
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H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco-France
Champions of the Earth 2008 - For his remarkable commitment to sustainable development in Monaco. Under his leadership, Monaco is now applying an exemplary policy on CO2 reduction in every sphere of society as well as in the business sector.
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Think Globally Act Locally
In 2008, Norway and the city of Arendal were among the first participants of the Climate Neutral Network (CN net) <http://www.unep.org/climateneutral>. One year on, we come to Arendal to see what climate neutrality means for the city and its people.
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H. E. Liz Thompson-Barbados
Champions of the Earth 2008 - For her outstanding work at the national and international levels. She is one of the recognized leaders on environmental issues of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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Timothy E. Wirth - USA
Champions of the Earth 2008 - For his work as the head of the UN Foundation and Better World Fund, he established the environment as a priority and mobilized resources to address it.
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Making the Olympics Green
The Beijing Olympics met if not exceeded many of its pledges on the environment, according to an assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). From reducing air pollution to big investments in public transport and renewable energies, the organizers made major efforts to ensure that the 2008 Games marked a step forward in terms of an Eco-friendly mass spectator sporting event.
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Kenyan Atlas of Our Changing Environment
In the footsteps of One Planet Many People, and Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, this is the newest in a suite of UNEP Atlases that have inspired decision-makers to action through the power of photographs.
This Atlas does two unique things: it assesses Kenya’s progress towards its own goals of improving the environment to achieve development goals; and it delivers a stunning bird’s-eye view of environmental change through the use of paired satellite images.
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H.E. Abdul-Qader Ba-Jammal-Yemen
Champions of the Earth 2008 - For his environmental policies as Minister and then as Prime Minister in Yemen. He established its Ministry of Water and Environment and the Environment Protection Authority.
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Delta Force
Earth Report finds out how communities are preparing themselves for increasing flooding and sea level rise caused by climate change. The Zambezi, Africa’s fourth longest river is Mozambique’s lifeblood. The delta is a vast area of fertile farmland. But flooding is becoming more frequent.
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Tena Kebena- Gardens from the Dust
Children and youth group volunteers clean up garbage dump sites around the city and then works to rehabilitate the land through planting trees. Their success and extraordinary passion has been recognized by the Ethiopian government who awarded them a small piece of land to develop their concept. Currently, the group supports itself through sales of herbal medicine grown through urban agriculture as well as from the youth who seek employment and volunteer income into their group to help sustain t
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Earth Hour
A World Wildlife Fund (WWF) initiative, Earth Hour has the goal of motivating one billion people in more than 1,000 cities around the world to switch off their lights for one hour on Saturday 28 March 2009 .Its a symbolic global event which aims to send a powerful message,it’s possible for everyone to take action on climate change.
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Fighting for trees
Element Climate Change Series follows the stories of five exceptional individuals who’ve decided to tackle climate change head on. - In this film we meet Bremley, who is fighting deforestation and desertification in his native Northeast India
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Lead PhaseOut-Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles
Air pollution is estimated to cause 800,000 deaths each year and costs the global economy 1billion dollars each year.
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Midnight Sun
Sunlabob Rural Energy is bringing energy to remote rural communities in Lao PDR, a country where just 48 per cent of the population has access to grid electricity, mostly in cities and town. Through Sunlabob, over 1,800 solar-home-systems (SHS) and 500 solar lanterns are being rented to families in 73 different villages across Lao PDR. In an area where most people rely on highly polluting kerosene lamps, the initiative rents out solar lighting at a lower price than kerosene.
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Mt.Kilimanjaro Initiative
Every year the Kilimanjaro Initiative, a Nairobi-based NGO, organizes an ascent to the rooftop of Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro. The climb brings together youth from various slums in Africa, as well as participants from the public and private sector.
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Geothermal Electricity in Kenya
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Naivasha : Story of an African Rift Valley lake
This short film explores the environmental pressures threatening Lake Naivasha, a fresh water lake in Kenya’s Rift Valley. It looks at the importance of the lake for the Kenyan economy and for the communities around it.
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No boundaries for Life
In the Mara, the Kenyan range of the wildebeests’ population has dropped to about 25% of what it was at the end of the 1970s. This’s generally attributed to the expansion of agriculture in the Loita Plains which started in the 1980s. The Masai Mara is perhaps the most famous of Kenya’s tourist attractions and the annual migration of the wildebeest and other large mammals is one of the Mara’s most compelling features.
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After The Wave
When the Asian Tsunami struck in December 2004,over 200,000 people were killed and 1.5 million left homeless. We travel to Thailand Sri Lanka and Indonesia to investigate what has happened "after the Wave"
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Looking Back and Looking Forward
2008 was one of the most devastating years on record. Issues such as climate change and deforestation were some of the evident problems during the year. In 2009 however, UNEP seeks to enhance and come up with solutions on this areas.
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Sink Or Swim
There is a dramatic increase in the frequency and magnitude of disasters caused by extreme weather. Even average weather no longer folllows predictable patterns.
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Power to the People
Practical Action is working in Peru’s eastern Andes where 68 percent of the population- around 5million people- do not have access to electricity.The project makes use of the region’s vast potential for hydroelectricity: to date, 47 micro-hydro schemes have been installed in the area through practical Action, bringing clean power to about 30,000 people.
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Timber Future
Tracking the rainforest by satellite, scientists at the NASA Earth Observatory estimate that if the current rate of deforestation continues, the world’s rainforests will vanish within 100 years. The destruction, they say, will cause unquantifiable effects on global climate, and eliminate the majority of plant and animal species on the planet.
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Greening UNEP
UNEP is working together with UNON on greening the UN Gigiri compound in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Nor any Drop to Drink
Looking at how countries in the Middle East are beginning to confront the stark reality of too many people and too little water.Innovative ideas at local level often provide solutions for local water shortages.
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Corporations Tackling the Global Water Crisis : The Water Facility - Kenya
The Water Facility was set by the European Union in 2002, to provide safe drinking water to countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific regions. The Water Facility does not just donate money or equipment, but ensures that local communities take ownership of the project and also trains them to maintain the equipment and networks - the reason for its success.
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Solutions for Saving the Planet : Jamtland Biomass
In the face of increasing energy prices, the European Union plans to reduce its use of fossil fuels by 20% before 2020, saving an estimated €60 billion on the European Union’s energy bill. One county in Sweden that has switched to a more sustainable source of energy is Jamtland. Today, more than 60% of its heat and power is derived from biomass. The county’s aim is to become a 100% non-fossil fuel region by 2015.
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SUMAWA - Research for Life
Achieving Sustainable Watersheds: Research4Life’s OARE platform helps researchers in Kenya address local environmental challenges. OARE is an international public-private consortium coordinated by UNEP, Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers.
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Trees For Love
Prof. Wangari Maathai wraps up a heart warming short film about a tree planting event in Nairobi, Kenya to celebrate Valentines Day.
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Green is the New Big Deal
The Global Green New Deal , part of the UNEP Green Economy initiative, for ministers from the North and the South attending UNEP Governing Council is an anti-dote to the current economic woes. It represents an opportunity to accelerate towards innovation-led, low carbon, low waste Green Economy societies with decent employment prospects for many more millions of people.
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Pay back time
Predictions on climate change and its implications for the world are bleak. The reduction of carbon emissions and the need for rapid introduction of renewable energy has become a race to save the planet.
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Breathing Hope into Kabul
Toxic car fumes and heavy dependency on firewood are fast becoming a significant problem in Kabul.Residents rely on firewood for their basic needs, heating construction and cooking. This leads to emissions of ultra fine particles to the atmosphere which has an increased impact on health.Air pollution in Kabul has led to 2,000 deaths annually.These problems arise mostly due to lack of electricity.
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Fighting for Trees
Element Climate Change Series follows the stories of five exceptional individuals who’ve decided to tackle climate change head on. - In this film we meet Bremley, who is fighting deforestation and desertification in his native Northeast India.
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Think Globally Act Locally
In 2008, Norway and the city of Arendal were among the first participants of the Climate Neutral Network (CN net) <http://www.unep.org/climateneutral>. One year on, we come to Arendal to see what climate neutrality means for the city and its people.
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Making the Olympics Green
The Beijing Olympics met if not exceeded many of its pledges on the environment, according to an assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). From reducing air pollution to big investments in public transport and renewable energies, the organizers made major efforts to ensure that the 2008 Games marked a step forward in terms of an Eco-friendly mass spectator sporting event.
[English]
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Montreal Protocol Who’s Who
This short introductory video tells the story of the Montreal Protocol at a glance. Humanity took its fate in hands and acted to preserve the ozone layer, and life on earth, through the Montreal Protocol.The Montreal Protocol Who’s Who pays tribute to those individuals who were essential in realizing this global effort for the sake of humanity and life on earth.
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Kenyan Atlas of Our Changing Environment
In the footsteps of One Planet Many People, and Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, this is the newest in a suite of UNEP Atlases that have inspired decision-makers to action through the power of photographs.
This Atlas does two unique things: it assesses Kenya’s progress towards its own goals of improving the environment to achieve development goals; and it delivers a stunning bird’s-eye view of environmental change through the use of paired satellite images.
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"Petit Loango Wetland - oil and gorillas?"
The race for oil and some other mining products all over the world maybe considered a threat to the African environment.
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Fighting for trees
Element Climate Change Series follows the stories of five exceptional individuals who’ve decided to tackle climate change head on. - In this film we meet Bremley, who is fighting deforestation and desertification in his native Northeast India
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Global Compact
Responsible Business explores the role of the corporation in advancing sustainable economic and social development and solving global problems through multi-stakeholder partnerships. Promoting the principles put forth by the United Nations Global Compact, the series presents companies demonstrating leadership in adopting these principles throughout their business.
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Midnight Sun
Sunlabob Rural Energy is bringing energy to remote rural communities in Lao PDR, a country where just 48 per cent of the population has access to grid electricity, mostly in cities and town. Through Sunlabob, over 1,800 solar-home-systems (SHS) and 500 solar lanterns are being rented to families in 73 different villages across Lao PDR. In an area where most people rely on highly polluting kerosene lamps, the initiative rents out solar lighting at a lower price than kerosene.
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Volvo Ocean Race
This is a 35,000 km race around the world using vane energy.It creates a great opportunity to send the message out "using energy that doesn’t pollute to combat climate change."
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Geothermal Electricity in Kenya
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Sports & Environment
Sports events and fans have an opportunity as well as a responsibility to address the environmental impact of sports. It also looks at how to use these events as a way of communicating to all of us about what the environmental issues of today are. Sports has to be part of the solution not problem.
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Ken Noguchi- conqueror of the highest peak through 7 continents
He’s now giving back to the mountains through cleaning expeditions on the mountains and shores and educating children on creating an Eco-friendly society by giving them hands -on experience than just abstract knowledge.
[English]
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No boundaries for Life
In the Mara, the Kenyan range of the wildebeests’ population has dropped to about 25% of what it was at the end of the 1970s. This’s generally attributed to the expansion of agriculture in the Loita Plains which started in the 1980s. The Masai Mara is perhaps the most famous of Kenya’s tourist attractions and the annual migration of the wildebeest and other large mammals is one of the Mara’s most compelling features.
[English]
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Kids Can
The nee generation stand-up for the world’s rights and plans to care for the planet through reducing, re-using and recycling.
[English]
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Power to the People
Practical Action is working in Peru’s eastern Andes where 68 percent of the population- around 5million people- do not have access to electricity.The project makes use of the region’s vast potential for hydroelectricity: to date, 47 micro-hydro schemes have been installed in the area through practical Action, bringing clean power to about 30,000 people.
[English]
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Greening Jobs
Consumers in North America throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour plastic bottles that can be recycled, along with other materials we dispose of daily such as paper, metals and glass. In Brazil, energy company Endessa has come up with an innovative solution to encourage people to recycle free energy in exchange for garbage! The programme is having remarkable results.
[English]
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Looking Back and Looking Forward
2008 was one of the most devastating years on record. Issues such as climate change and deforestation were some of the evident problems during the year. In 2009 however, UNEP seeks to enhance and come up with solutions on this areas.
[English]
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10 Seconds
Every 10 seconds a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is lost forever…Produced by Rain Flourish – the art of connecting rainforest)
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Greening UNEP
UNEP is working together with UNON on greening the UN Gigiri compound in Nairobi, Kenya.
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President Calderon
Mexico will host the international World Environment day for the year 2009, and plans to have a planting day where they plan to break their own tree planting record of 10 million trees in 2008.
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Solutions for Saving the Planet : Jamtland Biomass
In the face of increasing energy prices, the European Union plans to reduce its use of fossil fuels by 20% before 2020, saving an estimated €60 billion on the European Union’s energy bill. One county in Sweden that has switched to a more sustainable source of energy is Jamtland. Today, more than 60% of its heat and power is derived from biomass. The county’s aim is to become a 100% non-fossil fuel region by 2015.
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Corporations Tackling the Global Water Crisis : The Water Facility - Kenya
The Water Facility was set by the European Union in 2002, to provide safe drinking water to countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific regions. The Water Facility does not just donate money or equipment, but ensures that local communities take ownership of the project and also trains them to maintain the equipment and networks - the reason for its success.
[English]
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Melting Ice
Global warming in the arctic region warms up twice as much as the global rate and has led to the melting of neighbouring mines.
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Near Zero
The ’Near Zero Station’ is one of the useful ways that the United Nations Office at Nairobi, Kenya, has set up to reduce the UN’s impact on the local environment. Kenya is already struggling with solid waste pollution and the UN is leading the way through positive examples.
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Pay back time
Predictions on climate change and its implications for the world are bleak. The reduction of carbon emissions and the need for rapid introduction of renewable energy has become a race to save the planet.
[English]
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iWonder
Have you ever wondered what you could do to change things around you?
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Fighting for Trees
Element Climate Change Series follows the stories of five exceptional individuals who’ve decided to tackle climate change head on. - In this film we meet Bremley, who is fighting deforestation and desertification in his native Northeast India.
[English]
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Global food supplies
Global food supplies are not equally distributed and food prices are rising. The International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, IAASTD, argues that these factors pose a major global challenge. Increasingly politicians are looking to scientists and other disciplines for information that will assist them to make better decisions
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Tale of two lights
In rural southern India, UNEP’s ingenious locally financed solar project is improving living conditions and, surprisingly, saving lives too!
[English]
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Montreal Protocol Who’s Who
This short introductory video tells the story of the Montreal Protocol at a glance. Humanity took its fate in hands and acted to preserve the ozone layer, and life on earth, through the Montreal Protocol.The Montreal Protocol Who’s Who pays tribute to those individuals who were essential in realizing this global effort for the sake of humanity and life on earth.
[English]
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Sports, Peace and Environment
An exciting UNEP arrangement that links sporting activities and peace initiatives to the environment.
[English]
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Endessa
Forteleza, capital of sierra in Brazil has a population of 30million people and produces 3,300 tonnes of garbage gaily. Prof. Albert Brasil looks at three major points which are crucial to the creation of a cleaning up project; The huge amount of waste that was harming the environment, raw material needs of local companies and large number of people struggling to pay their energy bills.
[English]
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"Petit Loango Wetland - oil and gorillas?"
The race for oil and some other mining products all over the world maybe considered a threat to the African environment.
[English]
- [Français]
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Global Compact
Responsible Business explores the role of the corporation in advancing sustainable economic and social development and solving global problems through multi-stakeholder partnerships. Promoting the principles put forth by the United Nations Global Compact, the series presents companies demonstrating leadership in adopting these principles throughout their business.
[English]
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Green Buildings
Buildings are often overlooked when people think of the impact on the environment. However, buildings directly account for over 30% of all CO2 emissions in the world. Norwegian company - Hydro - has come up with a concept for designing sustainable, low-carbon footprint buildings.
[English]
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Volvo Ocean Race
This is a 35,000 km race around the world using vane energy.It creates a great opportunity to send the message out "using energy that doesn’t pollute to combat climate change."
[English]
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Glacier Monitoring
Glaciers are a critical component of the earth’s system and the current accelerated melting and retreat of glaciers have severe impacts on the environment and human well-being. Monitoring glacier changes and providing scientific, sound, consistent and illustrative facts and figures on glaciers are therefore critical functions in today’s world says Peter Gilruth, Director of the Division of Early Warning and Assessment of the UN Environment Programme.
[English]
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Sports & Environment
Sports events and fans have an opportunity as well as a responsibility to address the environmental impact of sports. It also looks at how to use these events as a way of communicating to all of us about what the environmental issues of today are. Sports has to be part of the solution not problem.
[English]
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Google Africa Atlas
People can fly to some of the worlds most dramatic environmental hotspots courtesy of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)s innovative use of the popular mapping tool Google Earth. The new computer service allows armchair environmentalists as well as politicians, researchers and business executives to zoom in, whizz past and monitor close to 200 sites.
[English]
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Ken Noguchi- conqueror of the highest peak through 7 continents
He’s now giving back to the mountains through cleaning expeditions on the mountains and shores and educating children on creating an Eco-friendly society by giving them hands -on experience than just abstract knowledge.
[English]
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Vertical Farming
Many East Africans depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.Returning to traditional multi-crop farming methods promise the best chance of withstanding the changing climate.
[English]
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Kids Can
The nee generation stand-up for the world’s rights and plans to care for the planet through reducing, re-using and recycling.
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Electric Fishing
For 5,000 years the Marsh Arabs lived in the mythical ’Garden of Eden’ in the marshes of southern Iraq. Desperate to make a living some choose fishing techniques such as to poison or electrocute their catch.
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Greening Jobs
Consumers in North America throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour plastic bottles that can be recycled, along with other materials we dispose of daily such as paper, metals and glass. In Brazil, energy company Endessa has come up with an innovative solution to encourage people to recycle free energy in exchange for garbage! The programme is having remarkable results.
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Climate Fever
According the UN, climate change currently contributes to an increasing global burden of ill health and premature death. A hallmark study by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health charted the relationship between temperature and childhood diarrhoea.
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Ivory Poaching Wars
More than 60 per cent of the worlds elephants were killed by poachers in the 1970s and 80s. Since then an international ban on the ivory trade has helped herds recover. But new evidence is emerging that poaching is again on the rise. Now investigators are using a new DNA technique to identify the killing fields.
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10 Seconds
Every 10 seconds a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is lost forever…Produced by Rain Flourish – the art of connecting rainforest)
[English]
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President Calderon
Mexico will host the international World Environment day for the year 2009, and plans to have a planting day where they plan to break their own tree planting record of 10 million trees in 2008.
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Sudan Post Conflict
A Post Conflict Environment Assessment Report.
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After Tsunami
An examination of the recovery process after the Asian Tsunami.
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Melting Ice
Global warming in the arctic region warms up twice as much as the global rate and has led to the melting of neighbouring mines.
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Iraqi Marshlands: On the road to recovery
The Iraqi Marshlands considered by some as the original biblical "Garden of Eden" and an ecosystem of global importance had been almost entirely destroyed by the time the former Iraqi regime collapsed in 2003. The UNEP project, "Support for Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands", is helping the Iraqi people to restore the marshlands and manage them in a sustainable manner, as well as providing safe drinking water and sanitation systems to marshlands communities lacking access to these
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Near Zero
The ’Near Zero Station’ is one of the useful ways that the United Nations Office at Nairobi, Kenya, has set up to reduce the UN’s impact on the local environment. Kenya is already struggling with solid waste pollution and the UN is leading the way through positive examples.
[English]
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Cold Water Corals
One of the most startling discoveries has been the abundance of coral reefs, living hundreds of metres below the surface of the sea, at around 4 to 13 degrees centigrade. Whats more, many of these reefs seem to play a significant role in the health of sea life in the area, and harbor an incredible diversity of life.
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iWonder
Have you ever wondered what you could do to change things around you?
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Maasai Mara
An Eco-lodge in Kenya where the lodges owners and designers spared no effort to adopt the greenest approaches to energy, water, waste, transport, and building material.
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Global food supplies
Global food supplies are not equally distributed and food prices are rising. The International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, IAASTD, argues that these factors pose a major global challenge. Increasingly politicians are looking to scientists and other disciplines for information that will assist them to make better decisions
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Together We Can Achieve the MDGs
Together We Can Achieve the MDGs
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Tale of two lights
In rural southern India, UNEP’s ingenious locally financed solar project is improving living conditions and, surprisingly, saving lives too!
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10th Biennial Conference
SEE 2008 Nairobi: Applying Ecological Economics for Social and Environmental Sustainability.
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Sports, Peace and Environment
An exciting UNEP arrangement that links sporting activities and peace initiatives to the environment.
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Youth Exchange Movement
Tunza Youth Advisory Council members encourage a clothing exchange and recycling.
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Endessa
Forteleza, capital of sierra in Brazil has a population of 30million people and produces 3,300 tonnes of garbage gaily. Prof. Albert Brasil looks at three major points which are crucial to the creation of a cleaning up project; The huge amount of waste that was harming the environment, raw material needs of local companies and large number of people struggling to pay their energy bills.
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Sustainable Lifestyles
Tunza Youth Advisory Council members encourage ’change from within’ to promote sustainable lifestyles.
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Glacier Monitoring
Glaciers are a critical component of the earth’s system and the current accelerated melting and retreat of glaciers have severe impacts on the environment and human well-being. Monitoring glacier changes and providing scientific, sound, consistent and illustrative facts and figures on glaciers are therefore critical functions in today’s world says Peter Gilruth, Director of the Division of Early Warning and Assessment of the UN Environment Programme.
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Olympics Legacy
Environmental improvements made in preparation for the Beijing Games leave the city of Beijing and its citizens better off said UNEP’s Executive Director in this video interview.
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Green Buildings
Buildings are often overlooked when people think of the impact on the environment. However, buildings directly account for over 30% of all CO2 emissions in the world. Norwegian company - Hydro - has come up with a concept for designing sustainable, low-carbon footprint buildings.
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Greening the Olympics
"The Road to the Green Olympics" is a documentary focusing on air quality in Beijing by the Beijing Environment Protection Bureau .
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Google Africa Atlas
People can fly to some of the worlds most dramatic environmental hotspots courtesy of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)s innovative use of the popular mapping tool Google Earth. The new computer service allows armchair environmentalists as well as politicians, researchers and business executives to zoom in, whizz past and monitor close to 200 sites.
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UNEP and the Beijing Olympics
UNEP's Executive Director discusses Beijing's environmental challenges and the green legacy of the Olympic Games.
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Vertical Farming
Many East Africans depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.Returning to traditional multi-crop farming methods promise the best chance of withstanding the changing climate.
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Change the World
Tunza Youth Advisory Council members encourage sustainable lifestyles in this video clip.
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Electric Fishing
For 5,000 years the Marsh Arabs lived in the mythical ’Garden of Eden’ in the marshes of southern Iraq. Desperate to make a living some choose fishing techniques such as to poison or electrocute their catch.
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Africa Atlas Discussed on Foreign Exchange
UNEP’s Executive Director discusses the Africa Atlas on Foreign Exchange, a weekly international affairs series aired on PBS.
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Climate Fever
According the UN, climate change currently contributes to an increasing global burden of ill health and premature death. A hallmark study by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health charted the relationship between temperature and childhood diarrhoea.
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Chinese Children's Painting Competition Winners Visit Kenya
Twenty first place winners of the 2008 Chinese Children's Painting Competition, organized by the Luo Hong Foundation and UNEP, visited Nairobi to receive their awards and participate in cultural exchanges.
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Ivory Poaching Wars
More than 60 per cent of the worlds elephants were killed by poachers in the 1970s and 80s. Since then an international ban on the ivory trade has helped herds recover. But new evidence is emerging that poaching is again on the rise. Now investigators are using a new DNA technique to identify the killing fields.
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The People Speak: Youth Leadership Summit 2008
The summit brings together about 350 student leaders and educators from around the globe to learn about the work of the United Nations on addressing climate change from 17 to 19 July 2008.
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Sudan Post Conflict
A Post Conflict Environment Assessment Report.
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Blast Fishing
n the Philippines fishermen kill their catch with explosives. The Visayan Sea has lost almost 90% of its coral and much of its marine life to over-fishing, blast fishing and cyanide poisoning. Tony Oposa has set up a school for kids to teach them about environment awareness.
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After Tsunami
An examination of the recovery process after the Asian Tsunami.
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Cloud Forests
Tropical montane cloud forests are a rare type of evergreen mountain forest found in tropical areas where local climatic conditions cause cloud and mist to be regularly in contact with the forest vegetation. These forests support ecosystems of distinctive floristic and structural form and contain a disproportionately large number of the worlds endemic and threatened species.
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Iraqi Marshlands: On the road to recovery
The Iraqi Marshlands considered by some as the original biblical "Garden of Eden" and an ecosystem of global importance had been almost entirely destroyed by the time the former Iraqi regime collapsed in 2003. The UNEP project, "Support for Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands", is helping the Iraqi people to restore the marshlands and manage them in a sustainable manner, as well as providing safe drinking water and sanitation systems to marshlands communities lacking access to these
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Great Apes
Great ape populations are declining at an alarming rate worldwide. Drastic action is needed. Time is not on our side.
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Cold Water Corals
One of the most startling discoveries has been the abundance of coral reefs, living hundreds of metres below the surface of the sea, at around 4 to 13 degrees centigrade. Whats more, many of these reefs seem to play a significant role in the health of sea life in the area, and harbor an incredible diversity of life.
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Caring for Chimpanzees
After examining chimpanzee habitats decades after her initial research, Jane Goodall finds that forests outside of the national parks have been destroyed.
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Maasai Mara
An Eco-lodge in Kenya where the lodges owners and designers spared no effort to adopt the greenest approaches to energy, water, waste, transport, and building material.
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Speaking for the Animals
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (also known as CMS or Bonn Convention) works to conserve terrestrial, marine and avian migratory species.
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Together We Can Achieve the MDGs
Together We Can Achieve the MDGs
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Our Planet in Transition: From Pole to Pole
Striking images from around the world depicting how our Earth is in transition from pole to pole.
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10th Biennial Conference
SEE 2008 Nairobi: Applying Ecological Economics for Social and Environmental Sustainability.
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Global Deserts
Protecting drylands is essential. Although deserts cover more than 40% of the planet’s land area, they are facing dramatic changes as a result of global climate change, high water demands, tourism and salt contamination of irrigated soils.
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Youth Exchange Movement
Tunza Youth Advisory Council members encourage a clothing exchange and recycling.
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Inspiration
Alex Lin’s initiative on e-waste.
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Environmental Change Re-Draws Atlas of Africa
Glacial Retreat to Rapid Urbanization Chronicled in Landmark Satellite Report to Africa’s Environment Ministers.
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Sustainable Lifestyles
Tunza Youth Advisory Council members encourage ’change from within’ to promote sustainable lifestyles.
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