April 16, 2009
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Environment Management Newsletter April 16, 2009 |
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Omaha to play host to 2009 World Environment Day in North America
North American celebrations for World Environment Day, observed annually on 5 June, will centre on Omaha, Nebraska, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced this week. Businesses, organizations and individuals in the host city, Omaha, will work with the UNEP Regional Office for North America (RONA) to schedule a series of events for the Day, as well as activities for the six weeks between Earth Day on 22 April and World Environment Day. “While UNEP thinks globally, we must act locally by engaging partners from all sectors of society, including cities, the private sector, non-governmental ... |
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Green government purchasing, a springboard for a sustainable economy
`If all European public administrations switched to green electricity, about 60 million tonnes of CO2 emissions would be avoided.` It was Margot Wallström, then European Commissioner for the Environment, who said this in 2004. At the time, European directives for local authority purchasing had just been modified, so that national and local governments should have been able to easily use environmental criteria in their specifications and orders. Yet today, only a minority of authorities take advantage of this. Or they limit themselves to the minimum possible, for example buying FSC timber. The ... |
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