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designers and evaluation experts on how to use environmental valuation for
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Provides guidelines for ADB staff, consultants, and officials of
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sections on environmental costs and benefits, the distribution of
net benefits, and sensitivity and risk analysis. 215 pages.
See also:
Handbook for Integrating Risk Analysis in the Economic Analysis of Projects - 2002
Handbook on
Gender Dimension in Projects - 2000
Economic
Analysis of Policy-Based Operations (2003)
Handbook
for Integrating Poverty Impact Assessment in the Economic Analysis
of Projects (2001)
Handbook
for the Economic Analysis of Health Sector Projects (2000)
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This is an executive summary of the report Global Environmental Change:
The Threat to Human Health,
released jointly by the Worldwatch Institute
and the United Nations Foundation in November 2009.
Global Environmental Change:
The Threat to Human Health
Executive Summary
Samuel S. Myers, Md , MPh
Over the past two-to-three hundred years,
humanity’s ecological footprint has ballooned
to such an extent that we are now fundamentally
altering the planet.We have transformed the
Earth’s land surface and altered the function of its
ecosystems, and we are triggering the rapid loss of both
terrestrial and marine life. We are also profoundly
changing our planet’s climate. It is increasingly apparent
that the breadth and depth of the changes we are
wreaking are imperiling not only many other species,
but the health and wellbeing of our own species as well.
As humans convert more land, water, and ecosystem
services for their own use, the environmental changes
resulting from these activities are combining to magnify
several serious public health threats, including:
exposure to infectious disease, food scarcity, water
scarcity, air pollution, natural disasters, and population
displacement. Taken together, these represent the greatest
public health challenge of the 21st century.We need
to act with urgency to reduce ecological disruption
while simultaneously strengthening the resilience of
populations to withstand the impacts of unavoidable
environmental change.
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Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente
Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe
Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
United Nations Environment Programme
Environment for development
News Center
Impacts
of Climate Change Coming Faster and Sooner: New Science Report
Underlines Urgency for Governments to Seal the Deal in Copenhagen
Washington/Nairobi,
24 September 2009 -The pace and scale of climate change may now be
outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report of
the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). An analysis of
the very latest, peer-reviewed science indicates that many predictions
at the upper end of the IPCC's forecasts are becoming ever more
likely. Meanwhile, the newly emerging science points to some events
thought likely to occur in longer-term time horizons, as already
happening or set to happen far sooner than had previously been
thought.
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From BBC News - 25 October 2007
GO4: Humans failing the sustainability audit
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
With its Geo-4 report, the United Nations tells us that most aspects of
the Earth's natural environment are in decline; and that the decline will affect
us, the planet's human inhabitants, in some pretty important ways.
Geo-4 provides a check-up on the health of the
planet. Feel like you have heard it before? Of course you have, not least from the
UN. So what, you might ask, is special about this report? Why is it worth any
more than a cursory headline glance before returning to the party?
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
18 January 2007
"Doomsday
Clock" Moves Two Minutes Closer To Midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock conveys how close
humanity is to catastrophic destruction--the figurative midnight--and monitors
the means humankind could use to obliterate itself. First and foremost, these
include nuclear weapons, but they also encompass climate-changing technologies
and new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology that could inflict
irrevocable harm.
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World indicators on the environment
World Energy Statistics
- Time Series
Economic inequality
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Civil Society and Social Movements Programme
Paper Number 16 October 2005
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Environmental Movements, Politics and Agenda 21 in Latin America
María Pilar García-Guadilla
The scarce interest in, and the lack of support given to, Agenda 21—the official, mainstream agenda adopted
at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 1992)—by Latin
American governments, non-governmental organization (NGOs) and social movements may be explained in part by
the region’s economic, political and social crises that have defined priorities other than those stipulated
in Agenda 21. The main concerns of the region over the last decade have been poverty and political stability,
not sustainable development. Another obstacle for the advancement of Agenda 21 is the fact that sustainable
development and participatory democracy are such broad concepts that there is no agreement on their meaning
among Latin American governments, NGOs and social movements—and not even within NGOs and social movements.
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Friends of the
Earth - 8 November 2005
Britain: Young people take action on climate
change
Sixty per cent of young people, aged 8-14, are
concerned that the world will suffer the effects of climate change when they are adults
and more than seventy per cent of them already take action at home or school to save
energy, a new survey reveals today. The results are published as part of Friends of the
Earth's activity week for schools `Shout about climate change', which runs from 7-11
November 2005.
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BBC
NEWS
Planet Under Pressure
A six-part BBC News Online series looking at some of
the most pressing environmental issues facing the human race today. By Alex Kirby BBC News
Online environment correspondent
Introduction
Part 1: Species under threat
Part 2: World water crisis
Part 3: Energy crisis
Part 4: Feeding the world
Part 5: Climate change
Part 6: Fighting pollution
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Why the Sun seems to be "dimming"
Horizon: Global Dimming |
| WTO: Trade Liberalization Reinforces the Need for
Environmental Cooperation (October 1999) |
| UNEP: GEO-2000 Global Environment Outlook
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| U.N.: Global Change and Sustainable Development: Critical
Trends. 1997 |
| U.N.: Protection of the atmosphere (1996) |
| U.N.: Science for Sustainable Development (1997) |
| Sustainable development |
Per capita Nitrogen Oxide Emissions, 1970-1997 (OECD)
Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 1980-1994
Per capita Sulphur Oxide Emissions, 1970-1997
Selected Countries: Participation in Major
International Environment Agreements
Common Air Pollutant Emissions (OECD)
Exports to LDCs of Recyclable Secondary Material,
1995
Major OECD exporters of RSM, by Value, 1995
Major OECD exporters of RSM, by Volume, 1995
Selected Importers of OECD RSM, 1995 |
| UNFCCC: Convention on Climate Change |
| R.Rojas:Sustainable development in a globalized economy (1997) |
| R.Rojas:Sustainable development in a globalized economy?.The
odds.(1999) |
| LINKS: The unnatural cycle |
| J. Jontz: Chile, forests, investments and NAFTA |
| Staying Alive
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| U.S. Embassy in
Beijing: China:
Environment, Science and Technology |
| M.I.T.: Technology, Business and Environment |
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R.Rojas: Agenda 21 revisited (notes) |
| * AGENDA 21 |
* U. N.
Conference of Environment and Development
* UNEP -Industry
and environment
* United Nations Environment
Programe
* United Nations:
Natural Resources |
| Linkages for Environment and
Development Policy Makers |
| Envirolink |
| Industrial Pollution Control Research
Project |
| WWW Virtual Library on
environment |
| Environmental Information Service |
| Chilean
Ecological Action Network (RENACE) |
| Global Environment Facility |
| Center for Economic and Social
Studies on the Enviroment |
Development education /
environmental education (ELDIS)
Environmental
datasets directories (ELDIS)
Environmental
impact assessment (ELDIS)
Environmental law
(ELDIS)
Environmental
monitoring and modelling (ELDIS)
Forests and
Forestry (ELDIS)
Irrigation and
water (ELDIS)
Oceans and coastal
areas (ELDIS)
Pest control
(ELDIS)
Pollution and
pollutants (ELDIS)
Soils (ELDIS)
Waste management /
recycling (ELDIS)
Water and
irrigation (ELDIS)
Agriculture
(ELDIS)
Biodiversity and
conservations (ELDIS)
Biotechnology and
microbiology (ELDIS)
Climate (ELDIS)
Desertification
(ELDIS)
Environment
(general) (ELDIS) |
The Convention and Kyoto
Protocol on Climate Change
Update on
Ratification of the Convention
The Kyoto
Protocol |
| C. Penfold, Global
warming and the Kyoto Agreement |
| New Scientist: Climate Change |
| New Scientist: Global
Environment Report |
| New Scientist: Biodiversity |
| New Scientist: Pollution |
| New Scientist: Population |
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| In Focus Policy Briefs Global
Toxics Treaties: U.S. Leadership Opportunity Slips Away
Kristin S. Schafer, Pesticide Action
Network North America (PANNA) (September 2002)
Ratifying Global Toxics Treaties: The U.S. Must Provide Leadership
Kristin S. Schafer (September 2001)
The Climate Crisis and Carbon Trading
Ross Gelbspan (July 2000)
Ozone Depletion & Global Warming
Jessica Vallette Revere (April
2000)
Central Asia: Aral Sea Problem
Erika Weinthal (March 2000)
NAFTA and Environment
Stephen P. Mumme (October 1999)
International Investment Rules and the Environment: Stuck in the Mud?
Lyuba Zarsky (August 1999)
Population and Environment
Robert Engelman (May 1999)
World Bank’s Environmental Reform Agenda
Frances Seymour and Navroz K.
Dubash (March 1999)
Intellectual Property Rights and the Privatization of Life
Kristin Dawkins (January 1999)
Environment and Security Policy
Stacy D. VanDeveer (January 1999)
Hazardous Waste Disposal
Kate O’Neill (January 1999)
Global Environment Facility
Korinna Horta (December 1998)
Arms & Environmental Technologies
Miriam Pemberton (October 1998)
Capital Flows and the Environment
Hilary French (August 1998)
Overseas Military Bases and Environment
John Lindsay-Poland and Nick Morgan
(June 1998)
Global Climate Change
Donald Goldberg and Stephen Porter
(May 1998)
Rural Development Policies
Peter Rosset (January 1997)
Trade and Environment
David Hunter and Brennan Van Dyke
(December 1996) |
| Progressive Response Sheer Hypocrisy of Europeans
John Lynch (April 2001)
Embarassing American Arrogance
John Matthews (April 2001)
Canada's Complicity
Raymond Parker (April 2001)
Climate Change A Personal Challenge
Michael Neuman (October 2000) |
| Global Affairs
Commentary Two Futures, and a Choice
Tom Athanasiou (March 6, 2003)
Calling All Realists
Tom Athanasiou (October 22, 2002)
Slouching Toward Johannesburg: U.S. is a Long Way from Sustainability
John C. Dernbach (July 26, 2002)
Bulletin from Bali: What Are We Going to Do About the United States?
Eric Mann (July 15, 2002)
Bush's Hot Air Plan
Kelly Sims-Gallagher (February 19,
2002)
Investment Rules After Doha: A Time to Sow?
Lyuba Zarsky (November 29, 2001)
Have Faith in Free Trade--The Greatest Story Over Sold
Kevin Gallagher (June 2001)
Climate Change: Europe at the Crossroads
Tom Athanasiou (March 2001)
U.S. Scuttles Latest Chance to Avert Global Warming Catastrophe
Ross Gelbspan (February 2001)
Ross Gelbspan on Global Warming
(an FPIF presentation) |
"Focus on the Americas"
Global Affairs Commentary
Sharing the Waters
Mary Kelly and Karen Chapman (May 22,
2002)
Oil and Venezuela's Failed Coup
Luis E. Lander and Margarita López
Maya (April 26, 2002)
Is the United States a Pollution Haven?
Frank Ackerman (March 1, 2002) |
| Outside the U.S.
Commentary WSSD Both Attacks and Abets "Global Apartheid"
Patrick Bond (September 9, 2002)
The Inclusion of Sinks Has Sunk the Kyoto Protocol
World Rainforest Movement (Aug. 2001) |
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