29/10/2016
27 October 2016 (UNEP)* – What happens on land affects our oceans. For example, when rainfall washes fertilizers from agricultural land into rivers, they end up in the sea, where they can and other marine organisms.
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Source of Photo: UNEP
Fertilizers contain nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Concentrations of such nutrients cause environmental damage on land and at sea.
Excess nutrients in the marine environment can lead to a process called eutrophication, where the nutrients nourish the growth of algae; when the algal growth becomes excessive and dies it robs the water column of oxygen, affecting the health of the marine environment.
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29/10/2016
Nairobi, 21 October 2016 (UNEP)* – It is the largest tropical forest in the world, a land of myths and magic. The Amazon provides ecological services not only to the 33 million people who live there, but to the rest of the planet.
Protecting What Protects Us: A Network of Conservation Areas in the Amazon| Photo: UNEP
This vast region suffers the effects of pollution and climate change. Despite recent advances in tackling degradation and deforestation, the Amazon´s survival is still threatened.
Since 2014 UN Environment, along with a number of partners, has been implementing a project to protect two large areas of the rainforest in a bid to conserve biological diversity and unique ecosystems.
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29/10/2016
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki moon welcomed the steps agreed upon on 28 October 2016 by the members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to address greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping.
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Photo: IMO
According to a statement issued by Ban’s spokesperson, the steps include: efforts to limit sulphur emissions; a mandatory data system for fuel consumption; strengthened implementation of energy-efficiency regulations; and a road map for developing by 2023 a comprehensive IMO strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships.
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29/10/2016
By Willie Mackenzie*
28 October, 2016 (Greenpeace) – Today, the largest marine protected area in the world was created in the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica. This is a HUGE victory for the whales, penguins, and toothfish that live there and for the millions of people standing up to protect our oceans.
A group of Adeli Penguins are seen here in the Antarctic sea ice of the Southern Ocean.
For years, Greenpeace has campaigned for protection of the Ross Sea at CCAMLR, the international body responsible for stewardship of Antarctic waters.
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29/10/2016
By Johan Galtung*
24 October 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service – The last one hundred years life expectancy has increased by about 25 per cent-from near 80 to near 100-in some countries. But, instead of increasing playful childhood, education, work and retirement by 25 per cent, the age of retirement has moved much less than the age at death.
Johan Galtung
That deprives masses of older people with experience and wisdom of productive work, of being useful, meeting others constructively; reducing them to being playful–bridge or golf as case may be–and just keeping alive.
Homo sapiens as homo ludens not homo faber.
Longer, but emptier lives.
A crime against humanity if there ever was any. However, with two clear remedies: continue working self-employed with pension as salary, or find meaning in dedication to something beyond oneself, some cause, volunteer work.
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29/10/2016
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on 28 October 2016 welcomed a unanimous decision from the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to create the world’s largest protected area – land or marine – in the Antarctic’s Ross Sea.
In the Ross Sea region of Antarctica, the Adélie penguins have been observed to travel an average of 13,000 kilometres during the year from their breeding to their winter foraging grounds. Photo: UNEP GRID Arendal/Peter Prokosch
“We are thrilled that this very special part of our planet’s oceans has been safeguarded for future generations,” said Executive Director of UN Environment Erik Solheim in a press release.
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