In the first half of 2011 alone, a number of acute disruptions to seasonal atmospheric and climate norms have occurred, and latest scientific projections indicate the pace of global temperature increase is accelerating. The likelihood of the complete loss of Arctic summer sea ice by 2030, faster melting of the vast Greenland ice sheets, and […]
The Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf has killed 273 endangered fin whales, and exported more than 1,200 tonnes of fin whale meat and blubber to Japan since 2008. These shipments, worth an estimated US $17 million, and Iceland’s escalating whale hunts, are clear abuse of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) as well as the Convention […]
The United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was created in 2003 to allow emission-reduction or removal projects in developing countries to earn carbon credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2. These certified emission reduction (CERs) can be traded and sold, and used by industrialized countries to a meet part of their emission reduction targets […]
Since 2001, when Nissui purchased Gorton’s, more than 2,700 whales have been killed by Kyodo Senpaku. This is part of the more than 175,000 whales that Nissui is responsible for killing since it began hunting whales in the 1930s. Over its long history of whaling, Nissui killed over 1,700 humpback and over 44,000 fin whales, […]
Illegal logging has concrete, adverse impacts on both the U.S. and global economies. Left unchallenged, illegal logging depresses global prices for timber and timber products by an average of 7 – 16 percent. Among U.S. imports, approximately 25 percent of all hardwood plywood and 10 percent of sawn timber may be from illegal sources. For […]
The breadth and magnitude of climate change ranks it as the gravest threat that humanity has ever faced. And while Parties may offer reasons why the Montreal Protocol cannot or should not act to enlarge its mandate to include limiting and eliminating GHG emissions from ODS, ODS substitutes, and ODS by-products, none of these reasons […]