Tony Blair has admitted that the risks of climate change may be more serious than previously thought. The Prime Minister’s concern is revealed today in a book that contains compelling evidence from some of the world’s leading scientists of the growing threat to the planet. Reassessments of major risks to the Earth, such as the melting of the great land-based ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, which would raise sea levels disastrously, or the slowing down of the Gulf Stream, which would plunge Britain into a new ice age, show that they may be triggered by temperature rises well within those already predicted for the coming century. From WBCSD web site
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China, a country with spectacular economic growth – averaging almost 10 per cent a year over the past quarter century – faces enormous environmental challenges. Issues range from energy and water scarcity to air pollution and soil erosion. The continuing growth needed to satisfy the aspirations of its 1.3 billion people and the trend of multi-national companies moving their production facilities to China pose a serious threat to the environment. Due to the scale of their environmental impact, the consequences are felt worldwide.
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The site gives access to a few samples of pictures available in the publication “One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment”. Striking examples of the impact of society on our environment, like the Iguazú National Park, o the right located in Argentina near its borders with Brazil and Paraguay that contains remnants of the highly endangered Paranaense Rain Forest.
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DEWA/GRID-Europe is one of UNEP’s major centres for data and information management, with a unique, “value-adding” mandate in the handling of global and regional environmental data, which in turn support the environment assessment and early-warning activities of UNEP and its partners.
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GreenFacts is an independent, multi-stakeholder non-profit organization based in Brussels. Its mission is to provide non-specialists with unbiased scientific information on environment and health matters. Greenfacts provide faithful summaries of authoritative scientific consensus documents on environment and health issues. They are peer-reviewed and published under the authority of a Scientific Board of independent experts. Moreover, independence from specific interests is ensured by multistakeholder governance and funding rules.
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The increasing popular web site on novel ideas and sustainability. Worth a visit.
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According to Wikipedia: Ecological footprint analysis approximates the amount of arable and agriculturally or ecologically productive land area it takes to sustain one human or group of humans, say in a family or city, based on their use of energy, food, water, building material and other consumables. It is a way of determining relative consumption for the purpose of educating people about their resource use and, sometimes, triggering them to change how they consume. It can be combined with overpopulation concerns and stated as “the number of Earths it would take to support every human living exactly the way you do.” Ecological footprints have been used to argue that current lifestyles are not sustainable.
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How many earths do you need to sustain your way of life? Take this two-minute quiz to find out.
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About Earth Day Network Founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide. Our mission is to build broad-based citizen support for sound, workable and effective environmental and sustainable development policies for all.
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How many earths do you need to sustain your way of life? Take this two-minutes quiz to find out.
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