[Associated Press] Working from a state-run nature preserve, Iran's "environmental gladiator" tries to raise his arid country's awareness of air pollution, climate change, desertification and deforestation.
The religious traditions are not equipped to supply specific guidance in dealing with complex issues such as climate change, desertification, or deforestation.
The island states and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) squared off against India and forced the agreement: they face all the catastrophic results of climate change (desertification, submersion) with no promise of fossil-fuel-driven development.
They want the brands they use to reflect their concerns and aspirations for a better world, and to take their fair share of responsibility for fighting climate change, desertification and other grave threats.
"Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change, desertification, the deterioration and loss of productivity in vast agricultural areas, the pollution of rivers and aquifers?" Benedict asked in 2010.
The suggested ways forward ranged from faithful implementation of the Kyoto protocol to acting on the provisions of biodiversity, climate and desertification conventions.Let me describe what I consider to be a way out of the enigma of awareness leading not to action, but to indifference.
Understanding physical and political geography is crucial to understand and solving complex challenges facing our planet such as climate change, desertification, and resource distribution, among others.
The journal's scope encompasses a wide range of environmental and natural resource issues, including biosafety, biodiversity loss, climate change, desertification, forest conservation, ozone depletion, transboundary pollutant flows, and the management of marine and fresh-water resources.
The journal's scope encompasses the full range of environmental and natural resource issues, including (but not limited to) biosafety, biodiversity loss, climate change, desertification, forest conservation, ozone depletion, transboundary pollutant flows, and the management of marine and fresh-water resources.
In 1992, world leaders convened in Rio de Janeiro to discuss three issues: climate change, desertification and biodiversity.
