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8月25日ー８月31日： 今週のニュース： 8月31日: Hot summer sparks global food crisis 8月30日: UN forum told one billion lives threatened by bad water 8月29日: Africa: The Energy-Poverty Nexus 8月29日: Bush Under Fire for CO2 Climate Threat Downgrade 8月28日: China in an energy quandary 8月28日: Greenhouse gas emissions down 2.5% 8月28日: EPA Relaxes Pollution Rules 8月28日: Environment panel calls for carbon tax in 2005 8月27日: Piloting Weather Insurance in India 8月27日: Ecologists fear disaster as oil rush takes grip in quake zone 8月25日: GAO: Cheney stifled energy probe 環境ネット ホームページ |
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Aug.31h, 2003
Hot summer sparks global food crisis This summer's heatwave has drastically cut harvests across Europe, plunging the world into an unprecedented food crisis, startling new official figures show. Independent |
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Aug.30h, 2003
UN forum told one billion lives threatened by bad water Nearly one billion people -- or one in every six people in the world -- lack access to safe drinking water and the developed world must understand this threat, a UN-sponsored forum heard. Yahoo News |
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Aug.29h, 2003
Africa: The Energy-Poverty Nexus Cross-sectoral integration fundamental to service delivery African ministers are looking at ways to integrate energy services in hopes of improving the odds of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Ministers from a wide range of sectors – education, health, water, agriculture – from 20 African countries joined representatives of NGOs, the private sector and donor organizations at a recent series of World Bank-sponsored workshops looking at links between energy service delivery and poverty reduction. World Bank Feature Story |
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Aug.29th, 2003
Bush Under Fire for CO2 Climate Threat Downgrade OSLO - Environmentalists accused President Bush yesterday of further undermining international efforts to curb global warming with a likely ruling that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Reuters |
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Aug.28th, 2003
China in an energy quandary China now ranks second globally to the United States in installed electricity capacity (338 gigawatts in 2000) but its use of electricity is just 38 percent of the world's average. If by 2050 its population peaks at 1.6 billion and per capita energy use reaches the world average, it will be adding the generating capacity of Canada every four years. China currently burns more than a billion tonnes of coal a year to produce 75 percent of its energy. Even the most optimistic assumptions foresee coal consumption growing by about 5 percent a year. Asia Times |
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Aug.28th, 2003
Greenhouse gas emissions down 2.5% The amount of "greenhouse gases" linked to global warming that were emitted in Japan in fiscal 2001 fell by 2.5% from the previous year, but the government believes this was only a temporary phenomenon as a warm winter and a cool summer reduced the use of air conditioners. Kyodo News |
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Aug.28th, 2003
EPA Relaxes Pollution Rules The Bush administration on Wednesday revised clean air regulations to make it easier for power plants and refineries to repair and upgrade their facilities -- drawing an immediate threat of a legal challenge from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Reuters |
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Aug.28th, 2003
Environment panel calls for carbon tax in 2005 A government advisory panel tasked with studying environmental taxes adopted a proposal Wednesday for the introduction of a carbon levy by as early as 2005 Japan Times |
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Aug.27h, 2003
Piloting Weather Insurance in India World Bank, IFC-supported initiative helps bring certainty to small farmers Weather insurance is not only a tool for big farmers in rich countries—several hundred smallholders in India are now buying insurance policies that protect them against extreme changes in weather patterns. World Bank Feature Story |
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Aug.27th, 2003
Ecologists fear disaster as oil rush takes grip in quake zone It will be the largest energy project in the world, but ecologists fear that a huge pipeline and three drilling platforms on and around the Russian island of Sakhalin, which borders Japan, may spell environmental disaster. The project is likely to bring a company led by British and Dutch giant Shell hundreds of billions of dollars and the Kremlin $49bn EnviroLink |
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Aug.25th, 2003
GAO: Cheney stifled energy probe Congressional investigators said Monday that Vice President Dick Cheney had stymied their investigation into his energy task force by refusing to turn over key documents. EnviroLink |
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8月11日ー８月17日： ８月１０日-１６日までストックホルムにて２００３年世界水週間がひらかれました。ウガンダではアメリカ大手電力会社ＡＥＳが＄５.５億ドルの大型水力発電計画への参加を中止しました。ウガンダ政府はケニア、ルワンダ、タンザニアなどの隣国への電力供給計画を立てていましたがこれにより新たな資金源を見つける必要がでました。 アフリカの貧困と水（セミナー報告書） 今週のニュース： 8月15日: Fate Of Controversial Ugandan Dam Project In Question 8月14日: African Fish Harvest Drop Blamed On Global Warming 8月14日: Oil Tanker Cracks In Two Off Pakistan's Coast 8月13日: Warming Waters Threaten Great Barrier Reef, Say Scientists 8月12日: World Bank Sanctions Two Firms 8月12日: Study Finds Agent Orange Still Contaminating Vietnam 8月11日: The 2003 World Water Week opened yesterday in Stockholm, 環境ネット ホームページ |
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Aug.15th, 2003
Fate Of Controversial Ugandan Dam Project In Question Uganda announced yesterday that it is looking into alternative funding for an ambitious and controversial $550 million hydropower project after U.S. energy firm AES pulled out Wednesday, citing the country's failure to reach a financing agreement with the World Bank on the project. UNWire |
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Aug.14th, 2003
African Fish Harvest Drop Blamed On Global Warming Scientists said today that global warming is to blame for a fall in fish harvests in Africa's Lake Tanganyika, a trend that threatens the diets of several poor nations. UNWire |
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Aug.14th, 2003
Oil Tanker Cracks In Two Off Pakistan's Coast An oil tanker that ran aground off Pakistan's coast has broken in two, officials said today. UNWire |
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Aug.13th, 2003
Warming Waters Threaten Great Barrier Reef, Say Scientists The Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage site, may suffer coral bleaching 100 days a year by 2050 without tougher restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, a scientific report published yesterday indicates. UNWire |
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Aug.12th, 2003
World Bank Sanctions Two Firms The World Bank has sanctioned two firms involved in a Bank-financed project in Bulgaria. Both firms, Schlumberger S.A. (formerly known as Schlumberger Industries S.A.) based in Montrouge, France, and its former subsidiary, Ganz Meter Company Ltd., based in Godollo, Hungary, were issued public letters of reprimand. A reference to the letters of reprimand will be posted on the World Bank’s external website for a period of two years. The World Bank’s decision is final, and there is no appeal. World Bank |
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Aug.12th, 2003
Study Finds Agent Orange Still Contaminating Vietnam The defoliant Agent Orange, a toxic chemical sprayed over Vietnam by the United States during the Vietnam War that is said to have affected more than 620,000 people, is still contaminating the food and the population in the country, a new study released yesterday indicates. UNWire |
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Aug.11th, 2003
The 2003 World Water Week opened yesterday in Stockholm, gathering more than 1,000 experts from 100 countries to discuss solutions to global and regional water crises. 2003 World Water Week |
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8月4日ー８月10日： ８月７日米国務省において気候変動についての日米政府間ハイレベル協議が開かれました。鈴木環境大臣を始め、多くの日米政府高官が集まり炭素隔離リーダーシップフォーラムへの参加やよりクリーンで効率的な技術の研究及び開発に対する一層のコミットメント、地球観測サミット及び地球観測に関する10年計画枠組への合意のために2004年春に日本が主催する閣僚会議など、両国の気候変動に対する協力と決意を再確認した。 今週のニュース： 8月8日: 第3回気候変動に関する日米政府間ハイレベル協議 8月7日: Haiti's Forests In Grave Danger, Newspaper Reports 8月6日: Study Identifies Oceans' Wildlife Hotspots 8月6日: World Bank, Catholic Church To Study Benefits Of GM Foods 8月5日: Persistent Organic Pollutants Protocol To Enter Into Force 8月5日: Inter-American Biodiversity Information Meeting to develop blueprint for technical and scientific exchange 8月4日: Budapest Declaration - Initiative Endorsed by Unique Coalition of Stakeholders 環境ネット ホームページ |
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Aug.7th, 2003
第3回気候変動に関する日米政府間ハイレベル協議 8月7日午前10時より正午まで（米国東部時間）、米国務省において、第3回気候変動に関する日米政府間ハイレベル協議が開催された。日本側より、鈴木環境大臣、美根外務省地球環境問題担当大使、浜中環境省地球環境審議官、市川経済産業省大臣官房審議官他、米国側より、コノ−トン環境評議会議長、ドブリアンスキー国務次官、ジョンソン環境保護庁副長官代行他が出席した。 外務省 プレスリリース |
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Aug.7th, 2003
Haiti's Forests In Grave Danger, Newspaper Reports Three tiny remnants are all that remain of Haiti's once-plentiful forests, and even those are under siege as the country's poor plunder them for resources and government agencies argue over how best to preserve them, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday. UNWire Agence France-Presse |
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Aug.6th, 2003
Study Identifies Oceans' Wildlife Hotspots By studying fishing records, a pair of scientists has identified oceanic biodiversity hotspots and is calling for them to be granted the same protections as rainforests, the London Independent reports today. UNWire |
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Aug.6th, 2003
World Bank, Catholic Church To Study Benefits Of GM Foods The World Bank and the Roman Catholic Church have announced they will conduct independent studies on genetically modified foods and their role in combating hunger worldwide, Folha de Sao Paulo reported Monday. UNWire |
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Aug.5th, 2003
Persistent Organic Pollutants Protocol To Enter Into Force The Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) will enter into force Oct. 23 following France's ratification, the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe said today. UNWire UNECE |
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Aug.5th, 2003
Inter-American Biodiversity Information Meeting to develop blueprint for technical and scientific exchange More than eighty stakeholders and biodiversity information experts from the Americas will attend the joint meeting of the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) and the Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cancun, Mexico, August 12-14, 2003. World Bank Press Release |
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Aug.4th, 2003
Budapest Declaration - Initiative Endorsed by Unique Coalition of Stakeholders Calling for the integration of local and institutional knowledge, new partnerships, and cooperation in the agricultural sector, a Budapest Declaration urges the implementation of a two and half year global assessment on how Agricultural Science, Knowledge and Technology can provide a decisive contribution to the improvement of rural livelihoods and poverty reduction in low income countries. World Bank Press Release |
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