The EPP party has near-total dominance over the European political landscape, holding 13 of 27 EU heads of state and other top leadership positions. EPP President Wilfried Martens attributes this success to the party embracing conservative policies that combine free market principles with social stability, which he believes most Europeans support. He says critics in the media have unfairly attacked the party due to its influence and beliefs. With Jose Manuel Barroso reappointed for a second term as European Commission President, Martens implies some opponents of the EPP should be worried about its continued stronghold on power in Europe.
From crisis to opportunity: Five steps to sustainable European economiesSustainable Brands
This report presents WWF’s analysis and recommendations on why and how Europe should shift to sustainable economies, boldly and rapidly. WWF puts forward this publication with an ambitious double aim: to show why a new economic path towards sustainability is both a necessity and a huge opportunity for Europe, and to present a concrete and ambitious policy roadmap to EU decision-makers.
Could we achieve goal 13 of the sdgs within the existing international econom...Md. Zahirul Islam
Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but also for generations to come (sometimes taught as ELF -Environment, Local people, Future)
From crisis to opportunity: Five steps to sustainable European economiesSustainable Brands
This report presents WWF’s analysis and recommendations on why and how Europe should shift to sustainable economies, boldly and rapidly. WWF puts forward this publication with an ambitious double aim: to show why a new economic path towards sustainability is both a necessity and a huge opportunity for Europe, and to present a concrete and ambitious policy roadmap to EU decision-makers.
Could we achieve goal 13 of the sdgs within the existing international econom...Md. Zahirul Islam
Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but also for generations to come (sometimes taught as ELF -Environment, Local people, Future)
The World Bank assembled this long list of supporting quotes to accompany the release of the Potsdam Institute climate report it commissioned.
Here's the full report and related materials:
http://climatechange.worldbank.org/content/climate-change-report-warns-dramatically-warmer-world-century
Here are related Dot Earth posts:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/climate/
Presentation on the Green Revolution that occurred in the European nations after World War II to use this as an example for a platform on how the same changes could be used to restore the decaying infrastructure of the United States to create a sustainable future for the generations to come.
A presentation given to the Conference of INGOs committee for Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges on the significance of climate change as one of the complex factors affecting migration.
The conclusion suggests that climat change is a critical factor in all aspects of the work that the Council of Europe is involved in and that environmental issues - especially sustainable development - should be a top priority for its future work
A Tradução na Era da Economia Verde
Marsel de Souza
Mesclando uma perspectiva histórica a uma perspectiva linguística, esta palestra abordará o surgimento e a evolução do conceito de Desenvolvimento Sustentável até chegar à recentíssima noção de “Economia Verde”, ressaltando a crescente indissociabilidade entre as dimensões ambiental, econômica e social, que são consideradas os três pilares da sustentabilidade. A apresentação fará, também, uma importante distinção entre as noções de “Economia Verde” e “Nova Economia”. Será discutida a problemática da “maquiagem verde” e o que isso representa para o nosso ofício. A palestra tem os seguintes objetivos: examinar vários conceitos da área de meio ambiente e sustentabilidade (alguns dos quais recém-criados), inclusive fazendo uma análise contrastiva de algumas definições de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e de Economia Verde; identificar o potencial de demanda dos mercados de tradução e interpretação que a temática do meio ambiente/sustentabilidade vem gerando no país, sobretudo considerando a posição de liderança e destaque do Brasil em diversas frentes nesse domínio; examinar a interconexão entre os aspectos ambientais, econômicos e sociais dos temas. Nesse contexto de multidisciplinaridade e tendo em vista a crescente importância desses conceitos em escala mundial, a palestra terá, também, o objetivo de responder às seguintes perguntas: Que passos deve dar o tradutor ou intérprete que deseje se especializar em áreas de meio ambiente/sustentabilidade? O que os linguistas especializados em outras áreas precisam saber sobre essas questões? O palestrante oferecerá uma rica lista de fontes de pesquisa terminológica na Internet das áreas citadas, inclusive glossários e tratados internacionais multilíngues.
Global warming / Climate change / Political deceit and mass mental manipulationRobert Powell
History of Global Warming and the Oregon Global Warming Commission Scandal. Global Warming Commission has slowed business, placed artificial, unattainable goals in place while ignoring the people of the state in many other ways. This is Corporatism in play. Flow of leftist gutting of traditional education for Sustainable education.
The World Bank assembled this long list of supporting quotes to accompany the release of the Potsdam Institute climate report it commissioned.
Here's the full report and related materials:
http://climatechange.worldbank.org/content/climate-change-report-warns-dramatically-warmer-world-century
Here are related Dot Earth posts:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/climate/
Presentation on the Green Revolution that occurred in the European nations after World War II to use this as an example for a platform on how the same changes could be used to restore the decaying infrastructure of the United States to create a sustainable future for the generations to come.
A presentation given to the Conference of INGOs committee for Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges on the significance of climate change as one of the complex factors affecting migration.
The conclusion suggests that climat change is a critical factor in all aspects of the work that the Council of Europe is involved in and that environmental issues - especially sustainable development - should be a top priority for its future work
A Tradução na Era da Economia Verde
Marsel de Souza
Mesclando uma perspectiva histórica a uma perspectiva linguística, esta palestra abordará o surgimento e a evolução do conceito de Desenvolvimento Sustentável até chegar à recentíssima noção de “Economia Verde”, ressaltando a crescente indissociabilidade entre as dimensões ambiental, econômica e social, que são consideradas os três pilares da sustentabilidade. A apresentação fará, também, uma importante distinção entre as noções de “Economia Verde” e “Nova Economia”. Será discutida a problemática da “maquiagem verde” e o que isso representa para o nosso ofício. A palestra tem os seguintes objetivos: examinar vários conceitos da área de meio ambiente e sustentabilidade (alguns dos quais recém-criados), inclusive fazendo uma análise contrastiva de algumas definições de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e de Economia Verde; identificar o potencial de demanda dos mercados de tradução e interpretação que a temática do meio ambiente/sustentabilidade vem gerando no país, sobretudo considerando a posição de liderança e destaque do Brasil em diversas frentes nesse domínio; examinar a interconexão entre os aspectos ambientais, econômicos e sociais dos temas. Nesse contexto de multidisciplinaridade e tendo em vista a crescente importância desses conceitos em escala mundial, a palestra terá, também, o objetivo de responder às seguintes perguntas: Que passos deve dar o tradutor ou intérprete que deseje se especializar em áreas de meio ambiente/sustentabilidade? O que os linguistas especializados em outras áreas precisam saber sobre essas questões? O palestrante oferecerá uma rica lista de fontes de pesquisa terminológica na Internet das áreas citadas, inclusive glossários e tratados internacionais multilíngues.
Global warming / Climate change / Political deceit and mass mental manipulationRobert Powell
History of Global Warming and the Oregon Global Warming Commission Scandal. Global Warming Commission has slowed business, placed artificial, unattainable goals in place while ignoring the people of the state in many other ways. This is Corporatism in play. Flow of leftist gutting of traditional education for Sustainable education.
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Assignment 1The Global Environment - An Emerging World View
Reading Assignment:
Article 2 “Global Warming Battlefields: How climate Change Threatens Security?” on pages 16-22 in the Annual Editions (11/12) textbook.
As you read, consider the following discussion points. Try to reconcile the "development" with the "sustainable" in the industry and communities. Development with capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment.Best way know to help the poor today; "economic growth" has to be handled with care otherwise it may end up with a degraded and devastated natural environment.Every generation should leave water, air, and soil resources as pure and unpolluted as when it came on earth!Win-win strategies for environmental issues, would it be possible?To help both economy and environment, environmentally harmful subsidies need to be reconsidered. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature "largest conservation group", Greens and businesses do not have the same objective but they can find common ground!2002 UN World Summit on sustainable development in South Africa - Johannesburg? Did it contribute any useful actions and policies?Kyoto Protocol (1997, Japan) a UN treaty on climate change/global warming to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions 5% below of 1990 levels by 2012; what was the bitter test in many mouths in Kyoto?Two areas where concerns about human health and environmental overlap: improving access for the poor to cleanser energy and safe drinking water!India’s leader Mahatma Gandhi’s testimonial about industrial revolution in Asia? "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialization after the manner of the west…It took UK half of the resources of the plant to achieve their prosperity, so how many planets will a country like India require?". Economic growth comparison of China versus India.
Overview:
This lesson will illustrate increasing global perspective on environmental problems and the degree to which their solutions must be linked to political, economical, and social problems and solutions.
The societal effects of climate change are not limited to humanitarian disasters. It is likely that there will be an increase in ethnic conflict, insurgencies, and civil violence whenever climate change negatively affects supplies of vital resources.
Diminished rainfall and river flow, rising sea level, and more frequent and severe storms will cripple the ability of underdeveloped societies to meet even basic sustainability levels.
Topics Covered:
Climate Change
The Hardest Hits
On water scarcity
On food availability
On coastal inundation
Resources Wars
Watching the River Flow
The Mogadishu Effect
Migratory Conflicts
Looking Ahead
Instructor's Comments:
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Today, June 5, is celebrated World Environment Day established since 1972 during the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. Despite the great progress which represented the Stockholm Conference, this date can not be celebrated due to the degradation of the environment and the threat of climate change that could jeopardize the very survival of humanity.
How do population dynamics affect greenhouse gases and climate change? Will urbanization and an ageing population help or hinder efforts to adapt to a warming world? And could better reproductive health care and improved relations between women and men make a difference in the fight against climate change? Find the answers in the State of World Population 2009.
Greening deserts international emergency program for species rescue biodiver...AbulQassim1
The initiator of the Greening Deserts Species Rescue and Protection Program CES-RPP for international species protection and biodiversity calls for international support. It is about the economic and scientific establishment of species rescue on a global scale. Some international species protection, climate protection, nature conservation and environmental protection organizations already showed their interest. http://speciesrescue.com
The Oxford lexicon characterizes Environment as the environment or conditions in which a man, creature or plant lives or works . The earth has happened to extraordinary worry in the previous decade. Ecological topics, for example, change in atmosphere, loss of biodiversity, contamination, an Earth wide temperature boost, and maintainable improvement, etc, have possessed a noteworthy space in the media channels and the administration strategies. We have been contaminating our planet, draining its assets, and amassing a huge amount of non biodegradable waste. Now of time, although private enterprise and industrialization have made the most astounding material ways of life, yet the procedure has exhausted the nature of living as it has, in the meantime expanded the rate at which we dirty, drain, and make squander. As previous Vice President Al Gore deduced in his book Earth to be determined, Human development is currently the prevailing reason for change in the worldwide condition. The natural outcomes of worldwide environmental change have turned out to be increasingly evident and of more noteworthy open concern. Endeavours to spare the earth can be followed back to as ahead of schedule as the 1900s yet not until the beginning of 21st century. Individuals attempted endeavors to work overall and battle condition exhaustion. Whats more, for a similar reason, Environmentalism has advanced as a progressively concrete and required idea in the pop culture. Little yet noteworthy endeavors have been taken to spare our condition. Mr. Himanshu Sharma | Mr. Rahul Jai Singh | Ms. Palak Sharma ""Environmentalism in Popular Culture"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23693.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/enviormental-science/23693/environmentalism-in-popular-culture/mr-himanshu-sharma
Interview - Balcan Economic Forum - Constantine Alexander
NEW EUROPE December 2009
1. NEWEUROPE17th Year, | Number 863 | December 6 - 12, 2009 | € 3.50 www.neurope.eu
With 13 of 27 heads of state, European Commission
President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Parliament
President Jerzy Buzel and incoming European Union
President Herman Van Rompuy, the European People’s
Party has near-total dominance over the European political
landscape. In an interview with New Europe, EPP President
Wilfried Martens said it’s clear that most of Europe
embraces his party and its conservative policies. He said the
EPP managed to do it despite numerous critics, primarily in
the media, whom he said have taken pot shots at the party
because of its influence and its belief, he said was found to
be true, that the worldwide economic crisis was the result of
extreme liberal market policies. “We strictly abide to sensi-
ble economic policies which traditionally combine free mar-
ket spirit with social peace and stability throughout Europe,”
he said, adding that everyone else is out of touch with
European society. He said despite its political stronghold
that the EPP continues to fend off what he said were mis-
perceptions spread by its enemies and rivals. And with
Barroso back for a second term, he said some people in
Brussels should be shaking in their boots.
With a more political Commission and social market economy
·Page 4,5
A more political Europe
ANALYSIS
George Papandreou, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Greece, and the Chairman-
in-Office of the OSCE, writes about renewing Europe’s Security Dialogue. ·Page 3
CLIMATE CHANGE
For two weeks to come, leaders, politicians, the UN and basically anyone who cares about
the future of the earth will be congregating in Copenhagen. ·Pages 17-24
European People’s Party President Wilfried Martens (L) and the group’s Secretary General Antonio Lopez-Isturiz
2. THE DEBATE
Page 20 |NE Special Supplement
NEW EUROPE CLIMATEDecember 6 - 12,2009
One tenet upon which we can all agree, regard-
less of our ethnic origin,is the importance of en-
suring that we, as citizens of our respective
countries, can live in peace and security with
available employment, food safety, fresh water
sources and harmony with all of our neighbors,
including the wildlife with which we share our
planet and on which we depend for natural re-
sourcesthatcontributeservicestoourwell-being.
The specter of climate change that for years
merely loomed in the background as a dark
shadow upon our landscape has now taken cen-
ter stage as we watch our dreams of creating a
better world upturned by this worldwide phe-
nomenon that impacts each and every one of us.
We at BLUEnature based on Andros Island in
the Greek Cyclades have already begun acting
upon a pledge to help our neighbors, our fellow
Greek and international citizens and our govern-
ment mitigate the deleterious effects of climate
change that have already crept into our lives.
The annual global value of natural ecosystem
goods and services is a startling €26 trillion,more
than 2 times the value of what humans produce
every year.In particular,annual coastal ecosystem
services have been valued at more than US$ 20
trillion, ranking among the most valuable of all
ecosystems in the world,especially as coastal wa-
ters contribute 50% to the world’s fisheries.
Ensuring the availability of our needs should be
paramount in the minds of those who will de-
bate and decide the course of our future in
Copenhagen. Ultimately, however, we are re-
sponsible for their decisions since we select those
who represent our voices.
“The protection of the environment is an issue of
democracy. When we discuss the quality of
democracy today, we can only envision an eco-
logical democracy, the epicenter of which is the
protection of the environment.”Karolos Papou-
lias,PresidentoftheHellenicRepublic,24-07-07
Konstantinos Mentzelopoulos has served as an
investment banker; an adviser to the Commis-
sion of the European Union; a European agri-
cultural industry consultant, an Ambassador of
the EU Natura 2000 Networking Program for
exemplaryenvironmentalmanagementofanEU
Special Protection Area and is currently working
for the establishment of a Marine Protected Area
in the Northern Cyclades in Greece.
C.J. Alexander, MBA, JD, has served as a California
attorney, a European agricultural industry consultant,
anEUenvironmentalprojectadministrator,andiscur-
rently working for the establishment of a Marine Pro-
tected Area in the Northern Cyclades in Greece.
BLUE NATURE
A World United in Its Wisdom
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It is the second time in history
that the very existence of hu-
manity is threatened; the first
being the nuclear threat of the
Cold War. This time the
threat is not about the two
leaders of the planet’s super
powers pressing the button
that will ignite the first nu-
clear missile, but about the
button we press everyday to
turn on our lights, our cars
and industrial engines. Economic growth, as
currently measured, is based on our ability to
have access to energy and raw materials.The
plants of our planet, through photosynthesis
captured the carbon dioxide that existed in
the earth’s atmosphere and transformed it
into organic matter that was gradually trans-
formed into oil,natural gas,lignite etc deeply
buried in the ground. The industrial revolu-
tion allowed us to bring this carbon to the
surface, so that we can burn it and produce
energy and thus partially reverse a natural
process that took billions of years to be com-
pleted. We now know that in this way we are
not only depleting the planet’s invaluable, fi-
nite resources, but we are simultaneously al-
tering the planet’s climate to a much less
hospitable one, if hospitable at all.
In many places of the world this is more ev-
ident everyday. Ironically enough this is the
case in the parts of the world that have con-
tributed the least to this madness.Today’s 20
million climate refuges are expected to grow
up to 500 million by 2050 if inaction is the
decision taken in Copenhagen. In Africa,
every year, people have to walk more and
more kilometres to find water, and wood to
boil it so that they can drink it.Kilimanjaro`s
ice cap may have disappeared by 2020. All of
Africa’s ice caps are melting away, draining
out rivers and lakes and these are not the only
ones.The source of water for much of South
America, the Andean ice caps are retreating
very fast.In 2007 the Amazon
River dried out for days, while
Lake Titicaca is expected to
dry out by 2050. What’s
worse,the Himalayan glaciers,
source of the Yangtze,
Brahmaputra,Ganges,Huang
Ho, Indus, Mekong and Sal-
ween, that provide access to
water for 22% of humanity are
melting down fast.
Managing to reduce carbon
concentration in the atmosphere through in-
creasing ecosystems’ carbon intake capacity,
while rapidly halting Greenhouse Gas emis-
sions, will be crucial for our civilization’s sur-
vival. Three times the amount of carbon
found in the atmosphere is deposited in ter-
restrial ecosystems.Halting deforestation and
promoting non commercial afforestation
might prove to be the most significant pillar
of mitigation. The proposed US climate bill
commits 5 billion USD annually for forests.
The EU zero, which is without doubt very
peculiar for the global leader of climate ac-
tion. The annual global needs are 17-33 bil-
lion USD and should be directed to
developing countries.
It is a long way to a just and adequate inter-
national legally binding climate agreement
and we are just a breath away from Copen-
hagen. Many say we should compromise for
a political agreement there. In other words
wait and see.
Can the planet wait for us any longer? And
what are we about to see?
Kriton Arsenis is a Greek Member of the European
Parliament and a Member of the Group of the Pro-
gressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the
European Parliament, he is on the Committee on
the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety,
the Committee on Fisheries the Delegation for re-
lations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab
Maghreb Union and on the Delegation to the Euro-
Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
SEALING THE DEAL
Natural ecosystems
are key ally to mitigation
Kriton Arsenis MEP
“GreenshiftEuropeisamovementpromotingICTs
to fight climate change,”says Vin Sumner,CEO of
UK-based Clicks & Links,and an expert in apply-
inginformationandcommunicationtechnologiesto
address climate challenges. Sumner and Cheryl
Miller,founderofZenDigital.be,haverecentlyjoined
forces behind Greenshift Europe to promote ICTs
for building“smart,”sustainable communities across
Europe. “First and foremost, we aim to lower the
footprintofICTitself,”saysSumnerabouttheprin-
ciples behind Greenshift Europe.“Then,we look at
howICTscanmakethewaywedothingstoday,like
powering our homes and public buildings, smarter
and more energy efficient.
GREENSHIFT EUROPE
Enabling Smart,Sustainable Cities