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Healthy people in a healthy environment
Good health and well-being require a clean and harmonious environment where physical, psycho - logical, social and aesthetic factors are all given their due importance. These factors are affected by actions and choices which can secure considerable health benefits. The environment is thus not only important for its own sake, but as a resource for better living conditions and well-being.- What we’ve agreed: the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Development Goals
- Green savings
- What young people want
- Water – the key to life
- The air we breathe
- Safer, quieter towns and cities of the future – reclaiming the streets
- Active, healthy lifestyles
- Making energy sustainable
- On the safe side
- Listen to our voices – the Bandung Declaration
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Forests Archive
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It’s up to us – 1
Posted on August 22, 2011 | No CommentsGreat ape populations are declining at an alarming rate worldwide. The surviving great apes – gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans – all live in the forests of Africa and Southeast...
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It’s up to us – 2
Posted on August 25, 2011 | No CommentsTUNZA spoke to biologist and GRASP Chief Consultant Ian Redmond about the great apes, our nearest relatives in the animal world. TUNZA: Conserving great apes is not just about the... -
REDD+: a natural progression
Posted on August 16, 2011 | No CommentsForests cover a third of the Earth’s surface and play an essential role in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But deforestation and forest degradation – including through agriculture, subsistence... -
Norway leads on REDD
Posted on August 13, 2011 | No CommentsReducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a mechanism being negotiated under the United Nations climate change convention. It is intended to offer developing countries financial incentives to... -
A different way of thinking
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No CommentsWe all know that timber, fibres, foods and medicines from forests have a price. But the services forests provide – often referred to as ecosystem services, such as regulating water... -
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)
Posted on August 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe UN’s initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD, www.un-redd.org) is a mechanism that facilitates the flow of funds from the developed to the developing world to... -
What ecosystem services are worth
Posted on August 12, 2011 | No Comments(per hectare per year) Cameroon’s forests services Climate regulation $842–2,265 Non-timber forest products: $41–70 Flood regulation $24 Hawaii, USA Groundwater recharging services of the forested Ko’olau watershed: $35,500–$65,750... -
The urban jungle 1
Posted on July 13, 2011 | No Comments‘The measure of any great civilization is its cities; and the measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces — its parkland... -
The urban jungle 2
Posted on July 15, 2011 | No CommentsSão Paulo Urban forests are important for protecting watersheds around cities. The 5,000-hectare Reserva Estadual da Cantareira in São Paulo – which includes remnants of the Atlantic forest – is not... -
The urban jungle 3
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsWhat sorts of trees do best in cities? This depends on the city, of course, but generally they must be resistant to toxins and able to live for a long...
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