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- CAMLR Convention | UNEP - UN Environment Programme
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources A Overview Antarctica is surrounded by an unbroken and dynamic body of water known as the Southern Ocean, which constitutes about 10% of the world's total ocean surface For about 200 years, Antarctica's resources have been unsystematically harvested In many cases the intense level of exploitation resulted in the severe
- State of the marine environment in Antarctica - UNEP
State of the marine environment in Antarctica 18 September 1990 Human activities have had a major effect on the balance of the Antarctic marine ecosystem, this can be seen by damage of large agae such as kelp that is caused by increased UV penetration
- About the United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP
Safeguarding the environment for future generations The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations’ leading global authority on the environment, driving transformational change on the triple planetary crisis: the crisis of climate change, the crisis of nature, land and biodiversity loss, and the crisis of pollution and waste
- Could microbes, locked in Arctic ice for millennia, unleash a . . . - UNEP
In the unusually hot summer of 2016, a bacterium that causes anthrax killed more than 2,500 reindeer in Siberia’s remote Yamal Peninsula, according to one study Normally locked deep in a layer of permanently frozen land, or permafrost, the once-dormant pathogen eventually spread to humans
- Ozone layer recovery is on track, helping avoid global warming . . . - UNEP
NAIROBI, 9 January 2023 – The ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, with the global phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals already benefitting efforts to mitigate climate change This is the conclusion of a UN-backed panel of experts, presented today at the American Meteorological Society’s 103rd annual meeting Examining novel technologies such as geoengineering for the
- Rebuilding the ozone layer: how the world came together for the . . . - UNEP
At that time, they didn’t know the scale of the problem But in 1985, a hole was confirmed in the ozone layer over Antarctica The world’s natural sun shield, which protects humans, plants, animals and ecosystems from excessive ultraviolet radiation, had been breached
- North America | UNEP - UN Environment Programme
UNEP’s North America Office works to spur collective action in the U S and Canada to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste; and to advance sustainable development within the region
- An open invitation from UN Environment Patron of Oceans, Lewis Pugh, to . . .
Lewis Pugh, UN Environment’s Patron of the Oceans is the personification of inspiration To raise awareness about the state of our oceans, Pugh has been swimming in the frigid and freezing waters of Arctic and Antarctica He has been putting his life at risk to show the world the impact of climate change and the vital role our oceans play for humanity
- Protecting Restoring Blue Carbon Ecosystems - UNEP
We work to protect and restore coastal ‘blue carbon’ ecosystems for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services to people and environment Mangroves and seagrass meadows are coastal ecosystems that cover a small portion of the total ocean area but collectively are widely distributed on every continent except Antarctica Mangroves are found in 123 countries worldwide with an estimated
- Polar Research Program | Global Mercury Partnership - UNEP
As part of the Italian Polar Research Programme (PNRA) Italy performed (2012-2014) an intensive campaigns in Ny-Alesund on the Svalbard Islands at the Italian research site and at DOME-C in Antarctica (Italian-French bi-lateral program) The aim of this project was to investigate on mercury
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