Globalization by Credo Reference: Environment

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientific panel created (1988) by two United Nations organizations, the UN Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization.

From International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was created by the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, or Stockholm Conference. Headquartered at Nairobi, Kenya, UNEP was intended to operate as the focus of environmental activities, within the UN system.

From The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) grew out of an awareness in the 1980s of transboundary environmental problems and the accompanying recognition that efforts to improve matters would be costly (Sjöberg 1994). Launched in 1991 by the World Bank as an experimental facility, the GEF entered a three-year pilot program to test approaches and resolve competing governance schemes.

From International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics
A specialized agency within the European Union, the European Environment Agency (EEA) was created in 1990, and began work in 1993.

Contamination of the air by noxious gases and minute particles of solid and liquid matter (particulates) in concentrations that endanger health. The major sources of air pollution are transportation engines, power and heat generation, industrial processes, and the burning of solid waste.

A gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s surface and its atmosphere which has been attributed to the greenhouse effect.

A severe general shortage of food, usually caused by a population explosion or failure of food crops.

Fishing at rates that exceed the sustained-yield cropping of fish species, resulting in a net population decline

The condition of having a population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash.

Contamination of water resources by harmful wastes; see also sewerage, water supply, pollution, and environmentalism.

A movement or theory that applies feminist principles and ideas to ecological issues.

Movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources, prevention of pollution, and control of land use.

Any of the political parties established in various countries to oppose the destructive environmental effects of many modern technologies and the economic systems and institutions that drive them.

International protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was agreed at Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997.

The process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment.

From International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics
Often associated with religious and agricultural views and practices, stewardship covers a diverse range of related positions in regard to how humans ought to value and treat the environment.

Sustainable development is the promotion of developmental patterns that will enable current human generations to meet their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.