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Advanced river flow management vital to facing climate challenge
Improved river flow management will be vital to protecting communities from the worst impacts of climate change and to achieving international goals on poverty reduction, according to a new report issued on the eve of World Water Week. Securing Water for Ecosystems and Human Well-being: The Importance of Environmental Flows also finds that river flow management to meet diverse environmental and ...
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Investing in nature is investing in our future
Ladies and gentlemen, It is a real pleasure for me to address this global congress, which is focusing on many of the key issues we face in protecting, and restoring wild areas in ways that also benefit our societies. I am sorry I cannot be with you in person. Europe's nature has been very strongly shaped by millennia of dense human intervention, more so than other continents. In spite of the ...
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New report: largest companies fall short in managing, disclosing water scarcity risks
Despite growing water-scarcity risks in many parts of the world, the vast majority of leading companies in water-intensive industries have weak management and disclosure of water-related risks and opportunities, according to a first-ever report issued today by the Ceres investor coalition, the financial services firm UBS and financial data provider Bloomberg. The report evaluates and ranks ...
By Ceres
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Sustainable Development Commission Fails to Sustain Enthusiasm
NEW YORK, New York, April 26, 2005 (ENS) - Four days after the Commission on Sustainable Development closed its 13th meeting at UN Headquarters in New York, many participants are expressing a sense of frustration and concern that all the international discussions held since the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburgh might amount to very little progress. "There is ...
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Rich Panoply of Giving Marks Third Clinton Global Initiative
NEW YORK, New York, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - When the formal portion of the third annual Clinton Global Initiative closed in New York on Friday, former President Bill Clinton announced that participants' commitments will result in 170 million acres of forest protected or restored, plus millions of people with better access to health care, sustainable incomes, and education.'Giving,' the title of ...
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Some Canadian rivers at risk of drying up
Some Canadian rivers are at risk of drying up as impacts of climate change intersect with growing water demand from the country's cities, industries and agriculture, a new WWF report has found. Canada's Rivers at Risk: Environmental Flows and Canada's Freshwater Future uses a scientific approach that focuses on the importance of water flow to examine the health of 10 Canadian rivers and reveals ...
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