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UN Moves Forward with Ambitious Plan to Clean Up Lake Victoria

10:29 am in africa, Business & Politics, drinking water, united nations by TreeHugger

lake-victoria-boats.jpg Photo: Tony Young under a Creative Commons license. Lake Victoria is vital to the livelihood of about 30 million people in East Africa. But as the region urbanizes, pollution levels in the lake have increased and access to clean water for disadvantaged populations is far from a sure thing. So the governments of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, with the help of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) have stepped in with an ambitious initiative to protect local ecosystems and ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Small-Scale Sustainable Farming Key To Global Food Security, Poverty Reduction: UN

10:30 am in agriculture, farming, Food & Health, poverty, united nations by TreeHugger

via internet food health A United Nations report has once again stressed that the key to increasing food production so that the world's coming nine billion people can be fed without increasing climate change and further reducing biodiversity, is small-scale sustainable agriculture. Doing so will also increase global food security, essential to poverty reduction. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Small-Scale Sustainable Farming Key To Global Food Security, Poverty Reduction: UN

10:30 am in agriculture, farming, Food & Health, poverty, united nations by TreeHugger

via internet food health A United Nations report has once again stressed that the key to increasing food production so that the world's coming nine billion people can be fed without increasing climate change and further reducing biodiversity, is small-scale sustainable agriculture. Doing so will also increase global food security, essential to poverty reduction. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tiny Investment in Stopping Deforestation Has Huge Returns For Climate, Jobs, Biodiversity: UNEP

7:35 am in Business & Politics, deforestation, economics, Travel & Nature, united nations, WED2011 by TreeHugger

amazon rainforest photo photo: Neil Palmer/International Center for Tropical Agriculture/Creative Commons Culminating World Environment Day itself, backing up this year's theme of Forests: Nature At Your Service, UNEP has highlighted the social, ecological and economic value of forests--as well as the massive benefits of reducing deforestation. All told investing just...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World Environment Day Festivities Kick Off In Delhi: Reforestation Projects & A Great Green Haat

8:05 am in events, india, united nations, WED2011 by TreeHugger

world environment day 2011 forests at your service photo All photos: Mat McDermott/Creative Commons TreeHugger is on the ground in India, traveling with UNEP and the winner of our joint blogging contest Ximena Prugue for the next couple of days, attending World Environment Day 2011 activities in Delhi and Bangalore. Here's a tas...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UN Initiative Will Bring Energy Efficiency to East Africa’s Buildings

8:25 am in africa, Business & Politics, developing nations, green building, united nations by TreeHugger

nairobi-skyline.jpg Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: DEMOSH under a Creative Commons license. This week, it was announced that a joint plan from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote energy efficiency in East African buildings was approved by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), to the tune of $2,853,000. Now that the acronyms and numbe...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Things We Already Knew But Are Being Told Yet Again: US Domestic Inaction on Climate Stymies International Action & Resource Overconsumption Means We’re Going To Need Another Planet by 2050

3:46 pm in Business & Politics, congress, ecological footprint, global climate change, resource consumption, united nations, united states by TreeHugger

head in the sand photo photo: blakeimeson/Creative Commons Sorry about the exceedingly long headline (appallingly long by accepted standards of blogging brevity) but it somehow seems an appropriate when two of the weightier stories making their way around today are items that we have been told repeatedly over the past couple of years, but as no one seems to be heeding them, get retold on what seems like a semi-annual basis. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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