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The right to live in a healthy or satisfactory environment.
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Development Gateway: Climate Change
- One of the primary goals of the Millennium Development plan articulated by the United Nations is climate change "to ensure environmental sustainability as a poverty reduction measure". To that end the Development Gateway website has set up this special set of webpages dedicated to exploring this pressing issue. The site contains material on global efforts to forge international cooperation in governance, donor aid, and policy implementation aimed at reducing the impact of climate change in the developing world. Topically, the site is divided into a number of specific content areas, such as urban development, water resource management, and business environment. Visitors can also peruse materials created in preparation for World Environment Day 2004, which was held in June 2004 in Barcelona. Finally, visitors with an interest in this topic will want to take a look at the expert perspective provided by Motoharu Yamazaki, who serves as head of the Climate Change Programme in Hungary's Regional Environmental Center.
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Human Rights Dialogue: Environmental Rights
- Although both human rights protection and environmental protection are relatively well-developed areas of public policy, recognition of the linkage between the two has been slow to develop. As activists, scholars, and policy practitioners have increasingly encountered situations at the intersection of these two areas, calls for the protection of environmental rights have intensified. Despite recent developments, however, no binding international agreement has had environmental rights as its primary focus. In addition, the issue continues to suffer from inattention due to the fact that it fails to fit neatly within the agenda of either the human rights movement or the environmental movement.
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Joint UNEP-OHCHR Expert Seminar on Human Rights and the Environment
- Geneva. January 17, 2001. Twenty seven human rights and environmental law experts from around the world were called on by the United Nations to debate on ways to bridge environmental and human rights issues. The experts met in a two day workshop in Geneva hosted by the High Commission for Human Rights (HCHR) and the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) to produce a set of recommendations to the UN’s two most important human rights and environment institutions on how to help address human rights violations caused by environmental degradation.
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Rights-Based Approach to Environment
- The costs of environmental degradation include reduced output in production-based sectors, an irreversible loss in bio-diversity, and mounting health costs and mortality due to lack of clean water and increased pollution. Sustainable development therefore, requires a long-term strategy that is cognizant about the costs of pollution and wasteful use of natural resources.
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UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- This site offers up-to-date news and publications about world biodiversity issues as well as providing an incredible array of information on the several projects in which the centre is involved, ranging from habitat to species to protected area issues. The site also offers great Interactive Map Services, which take the visitor through in-depth presentations of topics ranging from Coral Disease to Marine Turtles.
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