Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Haaretz reported Friday, with some surprise, that Gaza sewage has been pumped straight into the Mediterranean since last January, when the Gaza power plant last had to shut down for lack of fuel, and it was feared that sudden electricity outages could cause catastrophic sewage flooding in Gaza that might even threaten human life (as [...]
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Filed under: Environment, Gaza, International Law, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Marian Houk
So, the U.S. got out of the way, and joined a consensus resolution at the Climate Change Conference in Bali that calls for two years of negotiations on something to replace the emissions reductions targets contained in the 1997 Kyodo Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The consensus resolution, which the U.S. eventually [...]
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Filed under: Environment, US in UN
Posted on December 7th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Claudia Rosett writes: “On Bali, the UN climatocrats are off and running with their Dec. 3-14 climate conference, under hardship conditions including the requirement that all catering for side events must be ordered at least 48 hours in advance. Further rigors, according to a report from China’s Xinhua News Agency, include the demand that all [...]
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Filed under: Environment, United Nations
Posted on November 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The three major news agencies have all covered the just-released “synthesis” report on climate change following the close of the IPCC meeting in Valencia, Spain today. The”synthesis” report will be discussed by some 10,0000 delegates who are expected to participate in the Bali meeting of the UN Conference on Climate Change starting in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Environment, United Nations
Posted on November 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
A “synthesis” report on the climate prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is being released today by UNSG BAN Ki-Moon, who decided soon after his election that taking on global warming and other signs of climate change would be lofty but not too controversial goals for his term in office.
The BBC [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Here, we are told, there are other problems that are bigger, more important, more pressing than pollution and the environment. “Politics”, for example, is both the explanation of what is wrong, and of why we can do nothing about it.
Yet, every hour of every day, the problem is growing.
Who do Palestinians think is going [...]
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Filed under: Environment, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on October 12th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The announcement, widely predicted, is just in.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, jointly, to the UN Panel on Climate Change and to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
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Filed under: Environment, United Nations
Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Time Magazine has an appropriately sceptical and sarcastic account of yesterdays “high-level” meeting at the UN on how to stop or stall climate change:
“Though political awareness of the need to grapple with climate change was clearly at an all-time high — scores of national leaders don’t suddenly convene at the U.N. without a decent reason [...]
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Filed under: Environment
Posted on September 20th, 2007 by Marian Houk
A guest writer in Haaretz says that “According to UN Relief and Works Agency’s reports of the past few years to the UN institutions in New York, the situation of the sanitation infrastructures in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is one of the worst in the world”.
Read the whole Haaretz article here.
The environmental [...]
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Filed under: Environment, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press is reporting today that “Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane. The European Space Agency said nearly 200 satellite photos this month taken together showed an ice-free [...]
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