environmental policy

China's policies treasure both environment and people

harminka — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:38:43 -0500

Two of the world's largest environmental programs in China are generally successful, although key reforms could transform them into a model for the rest of the world, according to new research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Talks Climate In The US

seher — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:37:02 -0600

Swedish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Energy Maud Olofsson is in the US to talk about Swedish energy and environmental policies.

Why the 2008 EPI is of limited use

harminka — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:00:14 -0600

For countries without their own environmental monitoring systems, the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) can be useful for working out where there is a need for action in environmental policy making. However, within the European Union there are more suitable instruments for this.

Climate change poses a huge threat to human health

harminka — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:57:05 -0600

Climate change will have a huge impact on human health and bold environmental policy decisions are needed now to protect the world’s population, according to the author of an article published in the BMJ today.

Buying and selling habitats to help wildlife

harminka — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:47:36 -0500

Tradable permits are all the rage in environmental policy. They are already used internationally to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality. A group of economists and ecologists from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, are working together to find out whether such schemes could work for wildlife too.

UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations

harminka — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:20:13 -0500

Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents “the greatest environmental challenge of our times” and governments must overhaul policy approaches to the issue or face mass migrations of people driven from degraded homelands within a single generation, warns a new analysis from the United Nations University.

Who needs environmental monitoring?

harminka — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:04:57 -0500

We monitor the stock market, the weather, our blood pressure. Yet environmental monitoring is often criticized as being unscientific, expensive, and wasteful. Scientists argue that environmental monitoring is a crucial part of science in the review, "Who needs environmental monitoring""Â Gary Lovett (Institute of Ecosystem Studies) and colleagues from several universities and US government offices contributed to the review.

IBM's Computer Recycling Efforts Significantly Reducing e-Waste Worldwide

Nymphadora — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:52:54 -0500

IBM today announced that it processed over 100 million pounds of used and obsolete computer gear, as part of its computer renewal and recycling efforts worldwide in 2006, returning less than 1% of non-hazardous material to landfills.

European Union Outpaces United States on Chemical Safety

Dinka — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:25:37 -0600