Waste Management
Beth
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25 Jul 2011
The Comoros lacks an organized system for the proper collection and management of waste and sanitation. This constitutes a major health risk.
Population growth and urbanization have brought a substantial increase in the amount of household refuse, untreated hospital waste, and transportation-related trash such as waste oil and dumped cars. Management of waste water and rain water is becoming a major source of concern in both urban and rural environments. The problem is particularly acute in...
Beth
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20 Jul 2011
Fiji has a National Solid Waste Management Strategy, which was approved in 2006, an Environment Management Act, which was approved in 2005, and a National Liquid Waste Management Strategy, which was approved in 2007.
The natural environment is an integral part of Fiji’s products and services and the quality of nature plays a significant role in the success of any socioeconomic development. As such, the generation and disposal of waste has a direct and an indirect impact on the...
Beth
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20 Jul 2011
The Government of Samoa has developed fiscal and policy incentives and other measures to encourage environmentally sustainable imports and local products with low waste or degradable waste content. Samoa has also ratified and implemented relevant Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) or conventions relating to waste and pollution control.
Municipal waste in Samoa has several features that make it unique from municipal waste found in larger industrialised nations. As the economy of Samoa...
Beth
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08 Jul 2011
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July 07 2011 -- President James Michel has called on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take on the responsibility of becoming ‘the guardians of sustainability of our planet’ and to reclaim the concept of sustainability in the modern world order.
“Islands are more vulnerable and more threatened today than they have ever been in their history. We all know that for islands, the spectre of climate change is existential. Even those that will not be completely engulfed by...
Beth
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28 Jun 2011
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The United Nations and its partners this week launched a 20-year, $200 million environmental recovery programme in south-west Haiti that aims to benefit more than 200,000 people and show that sustainable rural development, from fisheries to tourism, is indeed practical.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
By UN News
The United Nations and its partners this week launched a 20-year, $200 million environmental recovery programme in south-west Haiti that aims to benefit more than 200,000 people and...
