Sentences with phrase «un environmental program»

This UN Environmental Program website links into the Maps and Graphics Library, and also into numerous other environment - related activities, reports, and other stuff.

Maurice Strong, Founder of the UN Environmental Program

The Paris Agreement could be used to force governments, including the Trump administration, «that have adopted climate - oriented laws to implement them,» reads the UN Environmental Program report on global warming litigation.

She co-authored a number of policy brief and reports, including the Policies that Work series, and she was a lead author of the most recent Emissions Gap Report, which was published by the UN Environmental Program (UNEP).

It has its UN Development Program with a goal to reduce global poverty and increase health and the UN Environmental Program that has some close overlaps in goals.

Kleyn studied architecture at UBC in the early 1970s and apprenticed in Rome, working in architecture, film and theater, while doing projects with international agencies such as the UN Environmental Program in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Not exact matches

The entire UN program in these matters now flies under the banner of «sustainable development,» which succinctly puts the two principles of economic growth and environmental protection in that order.

He'd done everything possible within the system: co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, chaired the president's Council on Environmental Quality, ran the entire UN Development Program, been a dean at Yale.

(Kandeh Yumkella, co-head of a major United Nations program on sustainable energy, made similar arguments last week at a UN environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, advocating the development of conventional and unconventional natural gas resources as a way to reduce deforestation and save millions of lives in the Third World.)

Additionally, with many studies — most recently the UN Environment's Emissions Gap Report — throwing into doubt the environmental effectiveness of CDM credits, a blanket approval of this program would mean that CORSIA's contribution to global climate action will be zero.

Brought to you by the magic of Google Earth / Maps and the UN: the United Nations Environmental Program's (UNEP) stunning world atlas of the changing environment.

«New Book Likens Manmade Global Warming to a Religious Cult; Argues the UN's Environmental Programs Will Hurt the Poor,» PRWeb, August 20, 2012.

The United Nations General Assembly, by consensus including Australia, outlined a program toward sustainable development, in which it emphasised «Economic development, social development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development... [R] espect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development, transparent and accountable governance in all sectors of society, as well as effective participation by civil society, are also an essential part of the necessary foundation for the realization of social and people - centred sustainable development», (19 September 1997), UN document A / RES / s -19 / 2, para 23.

[25] The UN General Assembly recently emphasised the link between development and human rights, in outlining a program towards sustainable development, noting the interdependence of economic development, social development and environmental protection.