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  • PRESS RELEASE: Smoke on Water - Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 15 November 2017
    NEW STUDY: Smoke on Water - Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation Peatlands are the world’s largest terrestrial organic carbon stock, storing twice as much carbon as forests. Peatlands are under imminent and existential threat from agricultural expansion and development and,...
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  • Smoke on Water - Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 15 November 2017
    smoke_on_water.pdf 32.94 MB
    In order to support the Global Peatlands Initiative in its initial work, GRID-Arendal has carried out a peer-reviewed rapid response assessment for peatlands based on existing data and information, including data made available by the Global Peatlands Initiative partners. This rapid assessment...
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  • Smoke on Water - Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 15 November 2017
    smoke_on_water.pdf 32.94 MB
    In order to support the Global Peatlands Initiative in its initial work, GRID-Arendal has carried out a peer-reviewed rapid response assessment for peatlands based on existing data and information, including data made available by the Global Peatlands Initiative partners. This rapid assessment...
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  • Marine litter: the ingredients for the ocean’s plastic soup

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 14 November 2017
    Marine litter is turning our ocean into a plastic soup. At least 8 million tons flows into our ocean every year, which amounts to economic losses of $82 million annually. On Wednesday 8 November, IUCN – the International Union for Conservation of Nature – organized the event ‘Marine Plastics Need...
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  • Marine litter: the ingredients for the ocean’s plastic soup

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 14 November 2017
    Marine litter is turning our ocean into a plastic soup. At least 8 million tons flows into our ocean every year, which amounts to economic losses of $82 million annually. On Wednesday 8 November, IUCN – the International Union for Conservation of Nature – organized the event ‘Marine Plastics Need...
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  • The UN Environment Assembly: Towards A Story-Filled Planet

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 14 November 2017
    - We must inspire people into action and not depress them into inaction - On the 5 th -7 th of September, Jorge Laguna-Celis, Director of the UN Environment Governance Affairs Office, visited Brussels to brief and exchange views with key EU stakeholders in Brussels about the upcoming UN Environment...
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  • The UN Environment Assembly: Towards A Story-Filled Planet

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 14 November 2017
    - We must inspire people into action and not depress them into inaction - On the 5 th -7 th of September, Jorge Laguna-Celis, Director of the UN Environment Governance Affairs Office, visited Brussels to brief and exchange views with key EU stakeholders in Brussels about the upcoming UN Environment...
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  • ‘Chasing Coral’ - A dive into the fascinatingly horrifying state of the ocean

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 14 November 2017
    “We need to push the EU and Member States to take a hard stance, not just against marine litter”, but to protect the ocean as a whole, said Emma Priestland from Seas at Risk, at a ‘Chasing Coral’ screening on October 4 th in Galeries Cinema in Brussels. The event was held in anticipation of the Our...
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  • ‘Chasing Coral’ - A dive into the fascinatingly horrifying state of the ocean

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 14 November 2017
    “We need to push the EU and Member States to take a hard stance, not just against marine litter”, but to protect the ocean as a whole, said Emma Priestland from Seas at Risk, at a ‘Chasing Coral’ screening on October 4 th in Galeries Cinema in Brussels. The event was held in anticipation of the Our...
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  • Bertrand Piccard: We need to speak of solutions, not problems

    United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 14 November 2017
    - Everything is there to make projects such as Solar Impulse the new normal - The Solvay Group organized a film screening of ‘The Impossible World Tour’ on the 5 th of September in Brussels, followed by discussions and a Q&A session. The evening was all about energy. The panelists including...
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