The International Conference on Broadcast Media and Climate Change: A Public Service Remit will be held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, 4 - 5 September 2009.
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Greenpeace is calling on the United Nations to put an immediate end to destructive high seas bottom fishing at this year’s general assembly meeting, following today’s release of the UN Secretary General’s own review (1) of the implementation of a resolution designed to protect deep sea life.
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Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) or "pirate" fishing is considered as one of the most serious threats to the achievement of sustainable fish stocks, with recent studies putting the worldwide value of illicit catches as high as US$23.5b a year.
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Spending on food and non-alcoholic beverages in 2003 resulted in almost 46,000 kilotonnes of greenhouse gases, according to the first comprehensive national estimate of food-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada. This was equivalent to 6.4% of total national GHG emissions that year.
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"Our world is in the grip of a dangerous carbon habit," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message introducing the theme, "Kick the carbon habit: toward a low carbon economy."
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Countries have been talking for nearly a year in an attempt to hammer out an accord by this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting. But a draft report seen by BBC News admits the process has "fallen short".
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‘Bluefin tuna is collapsing as we speak and yet the fishery will kick off for business as usual,’ said Sergi Tudela, of WWF. According to The World Wildlife Fund: ' The population can only be saved by a complete halt to fishing in May and June, when the fish swim to the Mediterranean to spawn, the WWF says.
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Ottawa, Canada — President Obama was extended a warm Canadian welcome this morning when Greenpeace activists unveiled two large banners on the Alexandra Bridge in Ottawa that read “Welcome President Obama” and “Climate Leaders Don’t Buy Tar Sands”.
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The most common of environmental behaviours in Canada was recycling in 2006, with a 97% participation rate among households with access to this service. About 45% of Canadian households had very environmentally active lifestyles in 2006, as measured by their participation in at least four of six selected environmental behaviours.
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Sandra Lee, a twenty six year old Chinese immigrant with a degree in Marketing and Anthropology, has thought a lot about the question of the environment and how it fits into her community. For Lee, it is important to make environmental awareness accessible to cultural communities. She sees a necessity to “market” environmental issues in a way that makes sense to groups that are not part of mainstream Quebec culture.
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