\r\n\r\nThe World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) refers to a summit that occurred in Johannesburg in the last week of August and first week of September 2002.\r\n\r\nIt was held under the auspices of the United Nations and was a follow up to similar summits...
\r\n\r\nThe Ramsar Convention was approved in Ramsar, Iran in 1971. The treaty involving members from all regions of the world took force in 1975. It is the only principle that addresses a specific ecosystem, wetlands. The Convention was formally adopted as The...
\r\n\r\nOn November 28, 2011 the United Nation\’s Climate Change Convention will take place in Durban, South Africa. This convention will bring together the very best minds in the climate change industry as well as representatives from world governments. This...
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Biodiversity Convention (1992) is the first law of its kind, to recognize that the conservation of biological diversity should be a common concern for all of humanity and is a fundamental component of the development process. The Convention...
\r\n\r\nOn a global scale, there is deepening confirmation that the climate is changing, and that word-wide climate change is a factor that is contributing to an increase in volatile and extreme weather patterns the world over. If the planet earth should experience a...