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Deakin University is committed to improving its policies and actions regarding the environment and to integrating environmental sustainability principles into all of its operations, strategies, plans, policies, activities and the curriculum.
This event not only showcased Deakin’s ‘green’ efforts, but also those of community partners and corporate citizens.
Speakers included:
Jodie Gould, Environmental Manager, Alcoa
Geoff Rollinson, Convenor, the eco hub and Warrnambool community garden
Professor Gerry Quinn, Chair in Marine Biology and Associate Head of School, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology.
It is estimated that exported timber only represents 5% of the wood cut in tropical forests. 10% is timber used locally and the majority - 85%- of wood is for fuel. While exports are generally the preserve of large scale enterprises, the domestic market is dominated by small forest enterprises. In many countries the forest sector constitutes mainly small forest enterprises - employing from 10 to 100 full-time employees. They create more than half of the jobs in the forest sector and are responsible for over 50% of the government revenues. While small and medium enterprises are important for local wealth creation, at the same time local environmental accountability is strengthened as they are part of the local life.
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Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
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Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
For more on this member, visit us at www.landscape-design-advisor.com and be sure to follow
A painting entitled "Woman with roots" by artist Tajhuan Brown adorns a storm drain in northeast Washington, D.C., on Feb. 13, 2018. The nonprofit Anacostia Watershed Society held a contest and selected 20 mural designs to decorate drains as a reminder that they carry stormwater directly to the nearby Anacostia River. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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The Story of 25 years of Environment and Climate Change in Transition Countries
The Environment and Sustainability Department and the Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Team held a panel discussion on environmental and social issues, as well as climate change mitigation, in countries where we invest.
It was also an opportunity to present the 2014 EBRD Sustainability Awards which recognised the achievements of Bank clients in environmental protection and energy efficiency and to launch the Sustainability Report 2013.
The discussion panel aimed to provide a personal perspective on the effects of 25 years of transition on the environment, climate change and society, including consideration of such issues as the impact of EU integration and commitments made under other international conventions and agreements on environmental and social topics.
Award Ceremony Sponsored by Akfen.
Moderator
Josué Tanaka
Managing Director, OSP, Energy Efficiency & Climate Change, EBRD
Speakers
Stephen Lintner
Former Senior Technical Adviser, World Bank
Jacqueline McGlade
Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme
MacArthur Elementary School is seen in Binghamton, N.Y., on Oct. 8, 2020. After remnants of Tropical Storm Lee inundated the school with over three feet of water from the nearby Susquehanna River, the school was rebuilt with numerous measures to improve its resilience to flooding. The lower level of the school, sitting in the river's flood plain, was converted to a playground that can flood without lasting damage, while rain gardens and other structures to soak up and filter stormwater are scattered throughout the campus. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Julie Lawson, Director of Trash Free Maryland, and Stiv Wilson, Campaign Director of The Story of Stuff Project, lead a research effort to collect microplastic samples from the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland on Sept. 4, 2015. The team used a manta trawl for the study, which sought to find out how much plastic waste is in the Chesapeake Bay, what kinds of plastic it is, and where it is coming from. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Petroglyph expert Paul Nevin uses a wet sponge to reveal carvings made up to 1,000 years ago on rocks in the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2020. Made by an Algonquin-speaking group known as the Shenks Ferry people, many petroglyphs on a stretch of the Susquehanna were flooded by dam construction decades ago, but sites like Big and Little Indian Rock are now on the National Register of Historic Places. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
For more on this member, visit us at www.landscape-design-advisor.com and be sure to follow
Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
For more on this member, visit us at www.landscape-design-advisor.com and be sure to follow
MacArthur Elementary School is seen in Binghamton, N.Y., on Oct. 8, 2020. After remnants of Tropical Storm Lee inundated the school with over three feet of water from the nearby Susquehanna River, the school was rebuilt with numerous measures to improve its resilience to flooding. The lower level of the school, sitting in the river's flood plain, was converted to a playground that can flood without lasting damage, while rain gardens and other structures to soak up and filter stormwater are scattered throughout the campus. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Garbage sorters at the bio waste management centre.
©ILO/Alan Dow
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Ghana - EPC: Firefighters from the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana working in a woodlot. Fire damage has a major impact on forested areas. On September 18, 2012, 26 Christian, Muslim and Hindu faith groups in sub-Saharan Africa launched long-term environmental action plans during ARC's 'Many Heavens, One Earth, Our Continent' celebration in Nairobi, Kenya. Visit www.arcworld.org
Data and maps on poverty, sanitation, safe and clean water and the incidence of cholera were used to help contain the spread of cholera in the Kwazulu Natal province in January 2001. Poverty and cholera data sets showed that the cholera outbreak followed a river flood plain and moved through and towards poor areas.
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Julie Lawson, Director of Trash Free Maryland, and Stiv Wilson, Campaign Director of The Story of Stuff Project, lead a research effort to collect microplastic samples from the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland on Sept. 4, 2015. The team used a manta trawl for the study, which sought to find out how much plastic waste is in the Chesapeake Bay, what kinds of plastic it is, and where it is coming from. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Fourth grade students from Federal Hill Preparatory School learn about water quality and the environment with educators from Living Classrooms Foundation at Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center in Baltimore, Md., on March 23, 2016. The field trip was the capstone for five weeks of environmental education under the School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction Project (SLURPP). (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Think about it: if a smoker does not care what he/she is doing to his/her internal environment (I mean, enough to stop), why should he/she give a second thought to the EXTERNAL environment? There's a ready answer for that: they should care because the rest of us have to look at it!
2009 World Environment campaign for Landcare Australia - celebrities Candice Falzon and Brent Staker wearing Landcare WED promotional t-shirts and jeans in Kings Park. Various poses with an inflatable world globe which ties in with the national campaign. Perth city skyline in the background.
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy George Heyman is working with global leaders on ways to cut carbon pollution while growing a sustainable economy at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP23 in Bonn, Germany.
Minister Heyman participated in a panel for sub-national groups and climate change along with Jerry Brown, Governor of California, Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, Chris Ballard, Ontario Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, and Rafael Martinez Blanco representing Mexico.
Petroglyph expert Paul Nevin uses a wet sponge to reveal carvings made up to 1,000 years ago on rocks in the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2020. Made by an Algonquin-speaking group known as the Shenks Ferry people, many petroglyphs on a stretch of the Susquehanna were flooded by dam construction decades ago, but sites like Big and Little Indian Rock are now on the National Register of Historic Places. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
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An education site for the 2012 BioBlitz, to be held on August 24-25. Student groups will be working with at this site with scientists to conduct aquatic invertebrate sampling and measure stream health.
Photo courtesy National Park Service.
USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Dr. Homer Wilkes, U.S. Senator Cory Booker and White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation John Podesta announced historic funding through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand access to urban nature, combat the climate crisis, and advance environmental justice, after meeting with local and state stake holders, April 12, 2023, in Newark, New Jersey.
The funding announced today is part of a $1.5 billion investment in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. The grant funding is available to community-based organizations, tribes, municipal and state governments, nonprofit partners, universities, and other eligible entities as they work to increase tree cover in urban spaces and boost equitable access to nature while bolstering resilience to extreme heat, storm-induced flooding, and other climate impacts. This historic level of investment will enable the Forest Service to support projects to improve public health, increase access to nature, and deliver real economic and ecological benefits to cities, towns and tribal communities across the country. (USDA photo by Christophe Paul)
MacArthur Elementary School is seen in Binghamton, N.Y., on Aug. 30, 2019. After remnants of Tropical Storm Lee indundated the school with over three feet of water from the nearby Susquehanna River, the school was rebuilt with numerous measures to improve its resilience to flooding. The lower level of the school, sitting in the river's flood plain, was converted to a playground that can flood without lasting damage, while rain gardens and other structures to soak up and filter stormwater are scattered throughout the campus. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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April 7, 2006: SGT Cerek of the 34th CST utilizing an APD 2000 to screen the attack site for chemical warfare agents. Soldiers with the Virginia National Guard's 34th Civil Support Team test the environment for nuclear, biological and chemical agents during the Vital Guardian Exercise at the District of Columbia National Guard Armory on April 4. April 7, 2006 (by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy)
A demonstrator carries a message that translates to "Commercialisation seriously harms health", fearing that TTIP could threaten the provision of health and care services. More than 2000 protesters march through Brussels, joining citizens in 700 other cities across the EU and the US, in a day of action against the emerging Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and similar secretive international trade deals.
According to the coalition of citizens’ organizations that launched a self-organised European Citizens' Initiative on the free trade agreements (stop-ttip.org/), there are various reasons to worry about TTIP:
"1. A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY: If agreed, TTIP would give corporations the power to sue governments over decisions that could harm their future profits, undermining democratic decision-making made in the public interest.
2. A THREAT TO PUBLIC SERVICES: TTIP will create new markets in public services such as health and education, leading to greater liberalisation and privatisation. It would also make it very difficult to bring these services — as well as our energy and water — back under public control or renationalise them.
3. A THREAT TO FOOD SAFETY: Through a harmonisation of food safety regulation, EU food safety standards would be lowered to US levels. This would remove EU restrictions on genetically modified organisms GMOs), pesticides and hormone-treated beef.
4. A THREAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT: TTIP would see EU environmental regulations being harmonised and reduced to US levels, allowing a US-style fracking boom in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.
5. A THREAT TO THE CLIMATE: With strong investor rights, TTIP would allow corporations to sue governments for bringing in new policies to leave fossil fuels in the ground.
6. A THREAT TO WORKERS’ RIGHTS: Workers’ rights could be reduced to US standards and businesses could relocate to US states and EU countries with the lowest labour standards.
7. A THREAT TO PERSONAL PRIVACY: Leaked documents indicate that TTIP could be used to reintroduce central elements of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which was rejected by the European parliament after popular protest. This could force internet providers to spy on their customers.
8. A THREAT TO FINANCIAL CONTROL: TTIP is set to remove many of the new financial regulations (such as banking safeguards) have been introduced since 2008 to prevent a future financial crash.
9. TTIP IS BEING NEGOTIATED IN SECRECY: While corporate lobbyists are playing an integral role in negotiations, the public have been shut out. All negotiators must sign nondisclosure agreements. There is no access to the draft text of the agreement — even for MPs — so most of what we know is from leaked documents.
10. TTIP IS A DANGEROUS BLUEPRINT FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD: If TTIP is agreed, countries in the global south will come under huge pressure to apply TTIP standards to avoid losing trade. The business lobby are upfront about their aim of creating ‘global convergence toward EU-US standards’. This would see free trade policies forced on poorer countries, that they have had no part in negotiating."
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Due to the lack of urban drainage systems, many urban centres in the DRC suffer from severe erosion, typified by numerous and fast expanding gully heads.
Fast urban growth has been substantially accelerated by conflict-induced population displacements and rural migration accentuated by the economic collapse of the countryside. Due to chaotic and uncontrolled urban growth, vast informal settlements often develop into degradation hotspots, characterized by severe gullies, poor sanitation, erosion and substantial peri-urban deforestation, and highly vulnerable to disasters.
Addressing environmental problems in urban centres is one of the key challenges facing the DRC.
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Érosion majeure, Kananga, Kaisai Occidental, RDC
En raison du manque de systèmes de drainage, de nombreux centres urbains en RDC souffrent d'une importante érosion, comme en témoigne l'augmentation du nombre de ravins.
La croissance urbaine s'est fortement accélérée suite aux déplacements de populations dus aux conflits et à l'exode rural, un phénomène accentué par l'effondrement de l'économie dans les campagnes. En raison de l'urbanisation chaotique et incontrôlée, de vastes installations informelles deviennent souvent les lieux les plus touchés par la dégradation environnementale. Caractérisés par de profonds ravinements, le manque d'assainissement, l'érosion et un important déboisement péri-urbain, ils deviennent donc particulièrement vulnérables aux catastrophes naturelles.
La résolution des problématiques environnementales dans les centres urbains est en somme l'un des défis clés auxquels est confrontée la RDC.
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