Friday, August 6th, 2010
The UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review, 2009-2010 is available via the UNECE Timber Committee and FAO European Forestry Commission homepage:www.unece.org/timber. It covers forest products market and policy developments in the UNECE region of Europe, North America and the CIS. The Review’s theme is “Innovation for structural change recovery”. The publication illustrates how a structural change
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
EuroGEOSS for Biodiversity – New approaches to monitoring and forecasting at the global scale. Read More
Friday, July 30th, 2010
HCM City’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment plans to use Global Positioning System to monitor the movements of waste tankers after finding that as much as 80 per cent of household sewage was being dumped into rivers and canals. The department said between 200-240 cubic metres of sewage was being dumped into public water
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Germany’s electricity supply could make a complete switch to renewable energies by 2050. The technology already available on the market could make this possible even today, but it requires that electricity be used and produced very efficiently. These are the results of a study done by the Federal Environment Agency. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Poor water quality is affecting almost a quarter of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, a new study revealed on Wednesday. The 10-year study carried out by the Australian Institute of Marine Science found 22 percent of the Great Barrier Reef – almost 650 reefs – did not meet water quality guidelines. The study found
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
The prediction comes from research study calculations indicating that land in Bangkok on average subsides about one centimetre annually. The study is a cooperative project on geodynamics called ‘Geodetic Earth Observation Technologies for Thailand: Environmental Change Detection and Investigation’ — GEO2TECDI — between Thai-based and European Union institutes. Read More
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Thousands of hectares of fragile mountainous forest in north-eastern Tanzania have been preserved through a recently completed seven-year biodiversity project managed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Eastern Arc Mountains project, financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was concluded last month after an independent evaluation reported that at least 10,000 hectares of
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
China attracted more asset financing in clean-energy technology in the second quarter than Europe and the U.S. combined, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. A clever piece of legislation created the renewable energy bonanza. Read More
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The UN Forum on Forests Secretariat is pleased to launch the logo for theInternational Year of Forests 2011 that has been developed in collaborationwith the UN Department of Public Information. The International Year ofForests 2011 logo is primarily intended for three kinds of promotional use:information, fund-raising and use by a commercial entity.The International Year of
Monday, July 19th, 2010
WWAP and UN-Habitat have released a joint Briefing Note ‘Water for sustainable urban human settlements’ highlighting critical water challenges related to today’s unprecedented urban expansion – from providing access to basic services to ensuring environmental and human security. The paper, produced 16 June 2010, provides urban mayors, leaders and high-level decision makers with concrete policy
