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Oceans Without Fish in 40 Years?

Posted on Jun 02, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.

Ok, “without fish” is a little bit of an overstatement, but a new report out by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and leading economists warns us that if fishing policies don’t change, all commercial fisheries could collapse in the next 40 years, which is pretty dramatic. UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner has made it clear that we really are heading towards unprecedented disaster if policies aren’t changed:

“Fisheries across the world are being plundered, or exploited at unsustainable rates. It is a failure of management of what will prove to be monumental proportions unless addressed.”
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Raise the Price of Water, Experts Say

Posted on May 05, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.

Water is a finite resource. It may seem abundant when you look at a globe, but the amount of water in the world that can be used for human purposes is not so large.

With a real water crisis looming, one solution the World Bank and the OECD, representing major economies of the world, are now pushing for is substantially increasing the price of water around the world.

However, this is a controversial topic, since official UN statistics show that about 1 billion people currently lack access to clean drinking water and twice that many don’t have proper sanitation.

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Chile May Protect Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems From Fishing

Posted on Jun 05, 2009 by Jennifer Lance.

A bill has been introduced into the Chilean National Congress that would protect vulnerable marine ecosystems. According to the United Nations, a vulnerable marine ecosystem is defined as:

An ecosystem that is particularly susceptible to disruption, to damage or even to destruction due to their physical characteristics, the activities and interactions of the organisms therein and the impacts they suffer from human activities and the surrounding environment.

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Obama Pledges $279 million for Everglades Restoration

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Jennifer Lance.

In 2000, legislation to restore the Everglades created a partnership between the US federal government and the state of Florida to undertake the largest environmental project in US history called the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP).  Under this agreement, saving the Everglades would take 30 years, and the burden of cost (estimated at $10 billion) would be split equally between the partners.  Unfortunately, the federal government has not been forthcoming with the funding for restoration until now.
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United Nations Officially Declares June 8 as World Oceans Day

Posted on May 05, 2009 by Jennifer Lance.

Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, World Oceans Day has been celebrated on June 8; however, the designation was not part of an official United Nations resolution. That has all changed:

In paragraph 171 of its resolution 63/111 on oceans and the law of the sea, the General Assembly resolved that, as from 2009, the United Nations will designate 8 June as World Oceans Day.

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