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Resources Year '2008'

The outcome of the Third Meeting of Parties to the Aarhus Convention, which took place in Riga, Latvia in June 2008, was cause for most participants to celebrate, reports Green Horizon's Editor-…
Factories in Rayong's industrial estates, part of Thailand's eastern province, will be made public soon to help local villagers learn more about the contaminants in their communities. The…
The International Symoposium on a topic "Floods and Modern Methods of Control Measures" dedicated to the eightieth anniversary of the Institute will be held under the aegis and financial…
Policymakers, conservationists and scientists have high hopes that REDD, a mechanism for compensating countries for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, will spur a massive…
The Aarhus Convention compliance mechanism is a powerful tool in the hands of citizens and civil society organisations. To use it efficiently, citizens need to know what to do when they have a…
A round table on «Environmental Awareness Raising Campaigns», held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, sought to identify the priority environmental problems for development of public awareness programs for…
As a tool for information sharing and transparency, this website will serve as a knowledge-base platform. This powerpoint presentation provides an introduction to UNCEEA online archive. The archive…
This study assesses the arguments of United Nations Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, Mr. John Ruggie, found in his paper: Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business…
The EBRD makes environmental impact assessments (EIAs) of environmentally sensitive projects it is considering available for review by the public. These documents are located in the EBRD Business…
IN 2009, the United States will switch from analog to digital television, a move which will make millions of televisions obsolete. Non-governmental organizations are calling on consumers to stem the…