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2 June 2013. Abu Shouk: Senior Hydro-geologist Saleem Abdulaziz, from the Groundwater and Wadis Directorate in the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation and focal point of the Integrate Water Resources Management, prepares an electronic sounding line to monitor the level of water in a water pump in Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), North Darfur.
Abu Shouk is one of the main priorities in North Darfur to implement projects on water due to the difficult terrain to find and keep the water and due to the big number of IDPs (more than 50,000) who use the water for domestic purposes and economical activities (like bricks fabrication).
The average of water consumption in the IDP camps in North Darfur is around ten liters per person a day.
Disputes over scarce water resources have been cited regularly as one of the root causes of the conflict in Darfur.
5 May is the World Environment Day.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
Connecting People to Nature, the theme for World Environment Day 2017, implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to protect the Earth that we share.
Mount Kangchenjunga (Khangchendzonga, 8534 m), the third highest mountain in the world, revered by the Sikkimese as their protective deity!
Thambi (11200 ft), a roadside viewpoint (14 km from Zuluk), offers a majestic panoramic view of Kangchenjunga range.
Old Silk Route, East Sikkim, India
Images of India
Solar panels on the ICTS building roof and facade, providing 30% of the bulding and its 80 staff members’ needs. Naqoura HQ, June 16th 2011. Pasqual Gorriz/UNIFIL photo
From left to right:
Santiago Perea, GHS Fine Art Galeria
Alfonso Quiñónez, OAS Secretary for External Relations
Carlos Urrutia, Ambassador, of Colombia to the United States
Andrés González Díaz, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS
Andres Navia, Art Museum of the Americas
Richard Huber, Chief of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Management at the OAS
Date: June 19, 2013
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
5 June 2014. El Fasher: Deputy Wali (governor) of North Darfur, Mohamed Ali Amein Sufi, interacts with a local singer at the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Ladies Beach: Secluded sandy beach offering swimming and rock pool exploration just south of the Surf Life Saving Club
From COWSLEY HOUSE (accommodation) Website:
Following its demise as a shipping hub, Port Elliot went through difficult times and it was not until the 1880s that the town began to emerge as a holiday destination. Due to the prudish standards of the time it was decreed that male & female bathing be segregated. In February 1884 the beach closest to the breakwater was reserved for females and became known as Ladies Beach, the name is still in use today.
In 1911 the Port Elliot railway station was built, the same timber building is still in use today. The Cockle Train operates, as a tourist attraction, to either Victor Harbor or Goolwa and is a magnificent sight as it steams its way along the picturesque coastline.
As early as 1925 a kiosk was under construction at Horseshoe Bay as the locals began to prepare for the annual tourist season. Today Horseshoe Bay is home to one of the most beautiful and safe swimming beaches in South Australia. Modern day visitors can be amply fed & watered at the Flying Fish Café/Restaurant located right on the beach!
In 1936 the Centenary Steps were constructed by local builder Les Brittain using funds raised by the local community to celebrate the centenary of South Australia. The steps can be used to access the cliff top walking path which takes in Horseshoe Bay, Ladies Beach, Knight’s Beach & Boomer. Also in 1936 another event caused great excitement in the local community – The South Australian Centenary Grand Prix - which saw the townsfolk and visitors come out in force to witness the spectacle of motor racing around the local streets
New Solar Panels inaugurated on the 5th of June 2012, UNIFIL HQ. Solar Farm annual production capacity will raise to 502 MW/hrs. Naqoura HQ, July 7th 2011. UN photo/Pasqual Gorriz
The Secretary of State visited the Thames Barrier as part of World Environment Day 2015.
5 June 2015.
Tracking application for PDA's allows for real time data monitoring of energy production. UNIFIL HQ Naqoura, June 16th 2011. Pasqual Gorriz/ UNIFIL Photo
Just in case you are wondering what this is. This was part of the World Environment Day in Wellington this year, kind of raising awareness for the Environment.
Everyone that appears sharp in this picture “froze” for 5 min during lunch time foot traffic.
Looked pretty cool, I guess a video would have shown this a bit better, but I hope you get the idea. :o)
2 June 2013. Abu Shouk: Technician Ibrahim Youssif Adam, staff member of the Groundwater and Wadis Directorate in the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation and working for the Integrate Water Resources Management, monitors the level of water in a water pump in Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), North Darfur.
Abu Shouk is one of the main priorities in North Darfur to implement projects on water due to the difficult terrain to find and keep the water and due to the big number of IDPs (more than 50,000) who use the water for domestic purposes and economical activities (like bricks fabrication).
The average of water consumption in the IDP camps in North Darfur is around ten liters per person a day.
Disputes over scarce water resources have been cited regularly as one of the root causes of the conflict in Darfur.
5 May is the World Environment Day.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
2 June 2013. Abu Shouk: Senior Hydro-geologist Saleem Abdulaziz, from the Groundwater and Wadis Directorate in the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation and focal point of the Integrate Water Resources Management, introduces an electronic sounding line to monitor the level of water in a water pump in Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), North Darfur.
Abu Shouk is one of the main priorities in North Darfur to implement projects on water due to the difficult terrain to find and keep the water and due to the big number of IDPs (more than 50,000) who use the water for domestic purposes and economical activities (like bricks fabrication).
The average of water consumption in the IDP camps in North Darfur is around ten liters per person a day.
Disputes over scarce water resources have been cited regularly as one of the root causes of the conflict in Darfur.
5 May is the World Environment Day.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
From left to right:
Nancy Daves, Responsable de International capacity Building del National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration (NOAA)
Randy Curtis, Senior Policy Adviser, the Nature Conservancy
Yadir Salazar, Minister Counselor, Alternate Representative of Colombia to the OAS
Richard Huber, Chief of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Management at the OAS
Claudia S. de Windt, Chief Environmental Law. Policy and Good Governance Section, OAS Department of Sustainable Development
Russell F. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Department of Commerce
Date: June 19, 2013
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
5 June 2014. El Fasher: A student participate at the final "call for action" during the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
From left to right:
Yadir Salazar, Minister Counselor, Alternate Representative of Colombia to the OAS
Claudia S. de Windt, Chief Environmental Law. Policy and Good Governance Section, OAS Department of Sustainable Development
Russell F. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Department of Commerce
Randy Curtis, Senior Policy Adviser, the Nature Conservancy
Santiago Perea, GHS Fine Art Galeria
Date: June 19, 2013
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
En soutien à la Journée mondiale de l’environnement qui a lieu ce vendredi 5 juin 2020, une vue prise dans la très belle serre aux papillons et son jardin tropical d'Orléans la Source.
🌴🌳🌵🍂🐢🐋🐆🐘
Célébrée chaque année le 5 juin depuis 1974, cette journée encourage les gouvernements, les entreprises, les célébrités et les citoyens à concentrer leurs efforts sur un problème environnemental urgent.
En cette année 2020, le thème est la biodiversité, une source de préoccupation à la fois urgente et existentielle. Les événements récents comme les feux de brousse au Brésil, aux États-Unis et en Australie ou les infestations de criquets en Afrique de l’Est, et maintenant, une pandémie mondiale, démontrent l’interdépendance des êtres humains et des réseaux de vie dans lesquels ils vivent. La nature nous envoie un message.
2019-08-10 © joëlaubryphotographies 📷
www.worldenvironmentday.global/fr/propos-de-la-journee-mo...
5 June 2014. El Fasher: Photo exhibition organized by UNAMID CPIS at El Fasher University, North Darfur, as part of the commemoration program for the World Environment Day.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Photo by Julian Meehan
Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by-SA
On World Environment Day Melbourne citizens gathered at Camberwell Junction outside the office of Josh Frydenberg, the Liberal MP for Kooyong and the Environment and Climate Change Minister in the Turnbull Government. He needs to step up and stop the Adani Carmichael coal mine from being developed as it is inconsistent with Australia's ratification and commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep temperatures well below 2C temperature target.
95 per cent of Australia's coal must remain unexploited to be consistent with limiting temperatures to 2C according to a 2015 peer reviewed study by Ekins and McGlade
If all of the Galilee Basin coal was burned, it is estimated that 705 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would be released each year – more than 1.3 times Australia’s current annual emissions. If all Galilee coal mines go ahead = 705 MT CO2/year or 1.96% of current annual global emissions of 36Gt CO2. Reminder on the science re Galilee Basin coal from climate scientist Will Steffen from September 2015 (PDF). Or read the more recent Climate Council report (May 2017) Risky Business: Health, Climate and Economic Risks of the Carmichael Coalmine
Thambi (11200 ft) is a roadside viewpoint (14 km from Zuluk) that unwraps suddenly to Mount Kangchenjunga (Khangchendzonga, 8534 m). On a clear day Thambi View Point offers a majestic panoramic view of Kangchenjunga range.
Old Silk Route, East Sikkim, India
Images of India
2 June 2013. Abu Shouk: (Left to right) Technicians Saleem Abdulaziz, Alamin Adam and Ibrahim Youssif Adam, all staff members of the Groundwater and Wadis Directorate in the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation and working for the Integrate Water Resources Management, monitor the level of water in a water pump in Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), North Darfur.
Abu Shouk is one of the main priorities in North Darfur to implement projects on water due to the difficult terrain to find and keep the water and due to the big number of IDPs (more than 50,000) who use the water for domestic purposes and economical activities (like bricks fabrication).
The average of water consumption in the IDP camps in North Darfur is around ten liters per person a day.
Disputes over scarce water resources have been cited regularly as one of the root causes of the conflict in Darfur.
5 May is the World Environment Day.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
they live each day greener , purer through simple practices and traditions.
I have mentioned this before, it is interesting to note that in this littleHimalayan kingdom of Bhutan, they havent yet encashed on horde tourist opportunities because they want to keep their country cleaner and greener, where they stick to traditional house building practices involving natural materials , the greener, purer environment seems to be made by its own citizens.
Do we need more lessons..!
Let everyday be one where we are aware of our environment.
5 June 2014. El Fasher: A lecturer gives his presentation at the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
5 June 2014. El Fasher: UNEP staff members welcome the attendants of the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
5 June 2014. El Fasher: A lecturer gives his presentation at the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
For World Environment Day 2015 I joined a group going up into the Victorian Central Highlands to look at the old growth forests, home to the critically endangered Leadbeater's Possum as well as being a unique ecosystem and a catchment area for Melbourne's water supply.
Tragically the area is being logged, with the vast majority (93%) going to low grade wood pulp or wood chip and less than 1% going to quality hardwood. The loggers claim that they are doing sustainable logging, but they are only replacing the Mountain Ash trees that they value, not the whole unique and diverse ecosystem.
Our hosts told the story through art, song and storytelling, including a very cold looking (and large) possum. They are working on protecting the forest by creating a Central Highlands National Park, which will generate more jobs through tourism than will be lost when logging stops (about 100 jobs)
5 June 2014. El Fasher: UNEP staff members distribute T-shirts and baseball caps to the attendants of the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
5 June 2014. El Fasher: Staff members of the Ministry of Environment distribute information materials to the attendants of the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfyu Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
La natura e gli alberi centenari del Parco di Shebenik in Albania, al confine con la Macedonia, stanno vedendo avvicendarsi giovani botanici che raccolgono campioni di piante, esperti che tracciano sentieri, altri ancora che lavorano per sensibilizzare pastori e residenti su caccia e sfruttamento di un territorio montano aspro e meraviglioso, rendendolo pronto anche ad accogliere un turismo consapevole.
Sono queste alcune delle attività del Programma della Cooperazione Italiana di assistenza al Ministero dell’Ambiente albanese per l’uso sostenibile e la conservazione della biodiversità.
Dall'Albania all'Amazzonia, l'impegno della Cooperazione allo Sviluppo a favore della tutela ambientale viene ricordato il 5 giugno, World Environment Day dal 1972.
Foto ©Annalisa Vandelli
Cooperazione Italiana in Albania
Our journey to a more sustainable future continue with… an App! Discover it and jump on board for Expo 2015 Milano to celebrate the World Environment Day together.
a local group of Charter for Trees, Woods and People celebrate Wangari Maathai, 39th anniversary of her Green Belt Movement, World Environment Day and London Tree Week during Tottenham Green Market with Tree ID walk, stories and quiz.
5 June 2014. El Fasher: Staff members of the Ministry of Environment distribute information materials to the attendants of the celebration of the World Environment Day at El Fasher University, North Darfur.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfyu Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with a photo exhibition, technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
UNIFIL Deputy Force Commander Brigadier General Patrick Phelan addresses a ceremony for the inauguration of a new Solar Energy System during World Environment Day at UNIFIL HQ Naqoura, June 5th 2012. Pasqual Gorriz/ UNIFIL Photo
From left to right:
Yadir Salazar, Minister Counselor, Alternate Representative of Colombia to the OAS
Claudia S. de Windt, Chief Environmental Law. Policy and Good Governance Section, OAS Department of Sustainable Development
Russell F. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Department of Commerce
Randy Curtis, Senior Policy Adviser, the Nature Conservancy
Date: June 19, 2013
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
Photo by Julian Meehan
Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by-SA
On World Environment Day Melbourne citizens gathered at Camberwell Junction outside the office of Josh Frydenberg, the Liberal MP for Kooyong and the Environment and Climate Change Minister in the Turnbull Government. He needs to step up and stop the Adani Carmichael coal mine from being developed as it is inconsistent with Australia's ratification and commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep temperatures well below 2C temperature target.
95 per cent of Australia's coal must remain unexploited to be consistent with limiting temperatures to 2C according to a 2015 peer reviewed study by Ekins and McGlade
If all of the Galilee Basin coal was burned, it is estimated that 705 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would be released each year – more than 1.3 times Australia’s current annual emissions. If all Galilee coal mines go ahead = 705 MT CO2/year or 1.96% of current annual global emissions of 36Gt CO2. Reminder on the science re Galilee Basin coal from climate scientist Will Steffen from September 2015 (PDF). Or read the more recent Climate Council report (May 2017) Risky Business: Health, Climate and Economic Risks of the Carmichael Coalmine
Photo by Julian Meehan
Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by-SA
On World Environment Day locals gather on a wintery Monday morning to tell Josh Frydenberg that they want Australia to move rapidly to solar, wind and storage and actually reduce our emissions, not just see the Paris Agreement as some kind of diplomacy bargaining chip.
The CEFC Board is up for renewal, and Finkel seems likely to only deliver a gas promoting LET not a real transition. With continued posturing on the "gas crisis" (when there is a global gas glut) and "clean coal", constituents are not happy with public funding being diverted from clean energy back to coal and gas. As Australia's emissions continue to climb its a big FAIL on #WorldEnvironmentDay
Josh Frydenberg needs to step up and stop the Adani Carmichael coal mine from being developed as it is inconsistent with Australia's ratification and commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep temperatures well below 2C temperature target. 95 per cent of Australia's coal must remain unexploited to be consistent with limiting temperatures to 2C according to a 2015 peer reviewed study by Ekins and McGlade
If all of the Galilee Basin coal was burned, it is estimated that 705 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would be released each year – more than 1.3 times Australia’s current annual emissions. If all Galilee coal mines go ahead = 705 MT CO2/year or 1.96% of current annual global emissions of 36Gt CO2. Reminder on the science re Galilee Basin coal from climate scientist Will Steffen from September 2015 (PDF). Or read the more recent Climate Council report (May 2017) Risky Business: Health, Climate and Economic Risks of the Carmichael Coalmine
So, Did ya party Today ??
Birthdays come and birthdays go, anniversaries, parties, festivals and celebrations keep us busy for a good part of the year. but, sadly many of us simply forget to celebrate the mother of all that exists around us and mother nature is not liking it one bit. Not anymore. No awards for guessing this one, today is the World Environment Day. And guess what the parties come home this time. India plays host country to all things Green this year. We have been named Global Host of World Environment Day 2011. I hope we all lived up to it…did ya ?
Every year, the efforts around the world to become environment friendly are channelized by coming up with a theme. This year the theme is ‘Forests: Nature at your Service’. The theme surprises me greatly. What surprises me is that when I was in primary school, in human history, we were taught about how the early man would ‘Worship’ the elements of nature viz ‘Fire’ , ‘Air’ , ‘Water’, ‘Earth” and ‘Trees’. But as we have progressed by leaps and bounds (have we, really ? ) we have beat the shit out of our ecosystem which actually keeps us living. Have it not been for the flexible and kind and tolerant behavior of the environment, we would dead before we count our last breaths. So much for returning a favor of amazing sights and sounds, magnificent landscapes, mind-boggling creatures, the air, water, life itself that we, as the most intelligent beings on earth were entrusted responsibility of. At times I even wonder do we even belong here ? A good part of Earth is water. There are many more creatures under the sea that we know. Also the land is shared by so many of other animals. If you look at it this way, we come in fact down the list somewhere, and haven’t realized it yet..!! I would think twice before calling myself belonging to the ‘most intelligent species’ on the planet looking at the pollution (made by us) jamming all our five senses. It should rather be the ‘most spoilt brat species’ on the planet.
Fortunately, as they say, it is never too late to do the right thing, we have finally woken up from the slumber and counting how much have we lost. How much do we owe it to the environment and how much of stink have created in our backyard. One such way is to unite and take part in various activities to reverse the damage. We can also spread awareness amongst others to do the least. Also, interestingly, there are more activities that I came to know about, from friends and the net, happening in the smaller towns and villages than in the major metros. I may be wrong, but that’s what I saw.
That’s about it. I hope some of these words ring in your head the next time you are throwing that plastic wrapper out the car window or when you run out of fresh air on your jog by the beach next time.
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Photo by Julian Meehan
Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by-SA
On World Environment Day Melbourne citizens gathered at Camberwell Junction outside the office of Josh Frydenberg, the Liberal MP for Kooyong and the Environment and Climate Change Minister in the Turnbull Government. He needs to step up and stop the Adani Carmichael coal mine from being developed as it is inconsistent with Australia's ratification and commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep temperatures well below 2C temperature target.
95 per cent of Australia's coal must remain unexploited to be consistent with limiting temperatures to 2C according to a 2015 peer reviewed study by Ekins and McGlade
If all of the Galilee Basin coal was burned, it is estimated that 705 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would be released each year – more than 1.3 times Australia’s current annual emissions. If all Galilee coal mines go ahead = 705 MT CO2/year or 1.96% of current annual global emissions of 36Gt CO2. Reminder on the science re Galilee Basin coal from climate scientist Will Steffen from September 2015 (PDF). Or read the more recent Climate Council report (May 2017) Risky Business: Health, Climate and Economic Risks of the Carmichael Coalmine
Photo by Julian Meehan
Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by-SA
On World Environment Day locals gather on a wintery Monday morning to tell Josh Frydenberg that they want Australia to move rapidly to solar, wind and storage and actually reduce our emissions, not just see the Paris Agreement as some kind of diplomacy bargaining chip.
The CEFC Board is up for renewal, and Finkel seems likely to only deliver a gas promoting LET not a real transition. With continued posturing on the "gas crisis" (when there is a global gas glut) and "clean coal", constituents are not happy with public funding being diverted from clean energy back to coal and gas. As Australia's emissions continue to climb its a big FAIL on #WorldEnvironmentDay
Josh Frydenberg needs to step up and stop the Adani Carmichael coal mine from being developed as it is inconsistent with Australia's ratification and commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep temperatures well below 2C temperature target. 95 per cent of Australia's coal must remain unexploited to be consistent with limiting temperatures to 2C according to a 2015 peer reviewed study by Ekins and McGlade
If all of the Galilee Basin coal was burned, it is estimated that 705 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would be released each year – more than 1.3 times Australia’s current annual emissions. If all Galilee coal mines go ahead = 705 MT CO2/year or 1.96% of current annual global emissions of 36Gt CO2. Reminder on the science re Galilee Basin coal from climate scientist Will Steffen from September 2015 (PDF). Or read the more recent Climate Council report (May 2017) Risky Business: Health, Climate and Economic Risks of the Carmichael Coalmine
Cover page for a Imaginary magazine called "ENVIRONMENT" done in National Geographic style. :)
Submitted for theme Go Green here
A young Rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) in the wild in Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve (Bengal, India) playing with a plastic wrapper left by the tourists.
#BeatPlasticPollution
5 June 2018
India
UNIFIL Solar Farmer Christian Roner (left) shows to Deputy Force Commander Brigadier General Patrick Phelan(centre) and Anthony O'Mullen chief IT, the new Solar Energy System. Naqoura HQ, June 5th 2012. Pasqual Gorriz/UNIFIL photo
ARIZONA.
Grand Canyon (From Helicopter)
USA.
2009
CANON EOS 450D / Rebel XSi
CANON 18-55mm EF-S F3.5-5.6 IS
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Dans 4 jours : Vendredi 5 juin 2009 :
Journée mondiale de l'Environnement 2009
La Journée mondiale de l'Environnement est célébrée chaque année, le 5 juin, dans plus de 100 pays. Le thème pour 2009 est le changement climatique, et les conséquences plus globales des changements environnementaux, et ainsi que les réponses que les sociétés peuvent y apporter.
La lutte contre le changement climatique et pour la préservation des écosystèmes, qui sont à la base même de nos systèmes économiques, est un problème pour chacun de nous. Tous les efforts individuels, si petits soient-ils, peuvent contribuer au développement durable de nos systèmes économiques et des communautés à travers le monde. (Unesco)
Egalement le 5 juin, sortie mondiale du film HOME (Yann Arthus-Bertrand) sur différents médias (ciné, TV, internet, DVD)... donc accessible à tous !!!
Synopsis : En 200 000 ans d'existence, l'homme a rompu l'équilibre sur lequel la Terre vivait depuis 4 milliards d'années. Réchauffement climatique, épuisement des ressources, extinction des espèces : l'homme a mis en péril sa propre demeure. Mais il est trop tard pour être pessimiste : il reste à peine dix ans à l'humanité pour inverser la tendance, prendre conscience de son exploitation démesurée des richesses de la Terre, et changer son mode de consommation.
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In 4 days : Friday, June 5, 2009 :
World Environment Day 2009
World Environment Day is celebrated every year on 5 June in more than 100 countries. The theme for 2009 is climate change and the broader consequences of environmental change, and what societies can do in response.
Combating climate change and preserving ecosystems services that underpin our economies is an issue for everyone. Every individual's efforts, no matter how small, can contribute to the sustainable development of our economies and communities around the world. (Unesco)
Also on the June 5, the film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, HOME (Yann Arthus-Bertrand) will be released in over 50 countries in the world, and will be available in various medias (cinema, TV, internet, DVD)...
Synopsis : In 200.000 years on Earth humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion yeas of evolution. The price of pay is high, but it's too late to be a pessimist : humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the Earth's riches and change its patterns of consumption.
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This bit of rock is the only other place in the universe that Man has managed to set foot. How far can we go?
Photo by Julian Meehan
Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by-SA
On World Environment Day locals gather on a wintery Monday morning to tell Josh Frydenberg that they want Australia to move rapidly to solar, wind and storage and actually reduce our emissions, not just see the Paris Agreement as some kind of diplomacy bargaining chip.
The CEFC Board is up for renewal, and Finkel seems likely to only deliver a gas promoting LET not a real transition. With continued posturing on the "gas crisis" (when there is a global gas glut) and "clean coal", constituents are not happy with public funding being diverted from clean energy back to coal and gas. As Australia's emissions continue to climb its a big FAIL on #WorldEnvironmentDay
Josh Frydenberg needs to step up and stop the Adani Carmichael coal mine from being developed as it is inconsistent with Australia's ratification and commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep temperatures well below 2C temperature target. 95 per cent of Australia's coal must remain unexploited to be consistent with limiting temperatures to 2C according to a 2015 peer reviewed study by Ekins and McGlade
If all of the Galilee Basin coal was burned, it is estimated that 705 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would be released each year – more than 1.3 times Australia’s current annual emissions. If all Galilee coal mines go ahead = 705 MT CO2/year or 1.96% of current annual global emissions of 36Gt CO2. Reminder on the science re Galilee Basin coal from climate scientist Will Steffen from September 2015 (PDF). Or read the more recent Climate Council report (May 2017) Risky Business: Health, Climate and Economic Risks of the Carmichael Coalmine
UNDP in Georgia is one of Georgia’s leading partners in environment protection. For World Environment Day 2014, they decided to crowdsource for new ideas to let people tell them what they wanted to do show their commitment to a green future. Here are some of the fabulous results.
Read more about this great story
Photos: Vladimer Valishvili/UNDP