Sometimes world-changing pronouncements aren’t delivered on stone tablets accompanied by thunder bolts, but in densely written reports, packed with charts, footnotes and appendices.
New report is final piece in jigsaw, now world leaders must act.
As the last of three ground-breaking climate change reports by leading UN scientists was published in Bangkok, Greenpeace today demanded that world leaders finally wake up to the scale of the climate crisis and act immediately to slash emissions.
"The final piece of the jigsaw in now in place and our leaders have no more excuses," said Charlie Kronick, Greenpeace UK's senior climate campaigner.
Posted by jamie — 24 November 2006 at 7:04pm
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The news that the UN moratorium on bottom trawling has sunk to the metaphorical, erm, bottom is grim enough but when you hear that it was all down to one country, it's just bloody depressing. And the culprit? Step forward Iceland, proud whaling nation and now ocean floor destroyer. Thanks guys.
But I can't put it better than Adele over on the Making Waves blog. There's real rage for you.
UN negotiations to adopt a moratorium on high-seas bottom trawling were torpedoed today, as a small number of influential fishing nations led by Iceland put the interests of their fishing fleets above other countries, the consensus of the marine scientific community and conservationists.
Climate change is happening, and it is affecting livelihoods that depend on the natural environment. In Africa, this means nearly everyone.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is unequivocal: climate change will have the biggest impact on the communities least able to respond to it.
7th May, 2003. Greenpeace today welcomed the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) decision to end the role of the timber trade in fuelling the war machine of Liberian President Charles Taylor.
The UNSC decision, agreed last night, renewed existing embargoes on trade in arms and diamonds with Liberia and extended them to include a ban on all timber exports, with effect from 7th July 2003. The ban will affect trade in species including Liberian Azob, Sapelli, Iroko, African mahogany and African walnut'.
The United Nations International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea issued a significant ruling on the case brought by the Irish government against the UK Government over the controversial Sellafield nuclear complex. The Tribunal, made up of 21 judges, issued a unanimous ruling that puts pressure on the UK to stop the operation a new plutonium fuel manufacturing facility, the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP).
