Gaza's Underground Water Supplies on the Verge of Collapse
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 17, 2009 (ENS) - The underground water supplies that 1.5 million Palestinians depend upon for drinking and agricultural uses are in danger of collapse, finds a new report by the UN Environment Programme's Post-Conflict Assessment Branch on the environmental condition of the Gaza Strip after weeks of hostilities last December and January. The report calls for the aquifer to be "rested" and alternative water sources found, warning, "Unless the trend is reversed now, damage could take centuries to reverse."
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009 ... -17-01.asp
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Investors Worth $13 Trillion Urge Strong Global Climate Treaty
NEW YORK, New York, September 16, 2009 (ENS) - The world's largest global investors today issued a joint call for strong action this year from U.S. and international policy makers to control global warming. Signed by 181 investors, who collectively manage more than $13 trillion in assets worldwide, the statement on the "urgent need for global agreement on climate change" was released at the International Investor Forum on Climate Change in New York. "The problem is too big for any one country," said Ceres President Mindy Lubber. "If there is a cost of carbon emissions, a cap on carbon, we will have flow of capital."
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009 ... -16-02.asp
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Ozone Protection Treaty Achieves Universal Ratification
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 16, 2009 (ENS) - The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer today became the first environmental treaty to attract universal participation by all the 196 governments of the world. Xanana Gusmao, Prime Minister of the world's youngest nation, East Timor, or Timor-Leste, made environmental history with his announcement that his government has ratified the treaty, bringing the number of participating states to 196.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009 ... -16-01.asp
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U.S. Hits the Brakes on Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
WASHINGTON, DC, September 15, 2009 (ENS) - The Obama administration opened a new era in U.S. automotive history today by proposing the nation's first greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles. The emissions standards would be paired with stronger vehicle fuel efficiency standards in a coordinated national program to address climate change and energy security. President Barack Obama told autoworkers at a General Motors assembly plant in Ohio, "We are launching, for the first time in history, a new national standard aimed at both increasing gas mileage and decreasing greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks sold in America."
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009 ... -15-01.asp
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Global Calendar Jammed With Climate Change Talks
WASHINGTON, DC, September 15, 2009 (ENS) - "Two countries, the United States and China, are really going to set the tone for the climate change dialogue," U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts told reporters today ahead of an accelerating schedule of negotiations leading to the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December. There, in less than three months, the leaders of 192 nations are expected to forge an agreement governing greenhouse gas emissions to kick in when the first commitment phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires at the end of 2012.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009 ... -15-01.asp
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