The World Environment Day 
June 5th was World Environment Day.
I wanted to make a sign so that, if passed, does not pass unnoticed.
TRADE - Too many betrayals perpetrated by man against the environment, in recent times. In the Gulf of Mexico, for over a month, BP tries to stem the river of oil flowing from the bottom (one million liters per day), the result of careless exploitation of natural resources. All ratings are the fourth attempt to plug the mouth of the well out of control to be successful, as it seems from the first statement, otherwise the oil spill, transported by large ocean currents, could spread across the Atlantic, and the leap from disaster local to global scale. To stay in Mexico, Cancun, getting ready for the next World Conference on Climate Change (November 29-December 10) that the agenda for the formulation of a new Protocol for the protection of the atmosphere and the climate system. After the resounding flop of last year in Copenhagen, expectations that the summit Cancun will provide continuity for the Kyoto pact, raising a shared program of reducing greenhouse gases, are high. But the persistent deadlock in the negotiations, meanwhile continued in Bonn, did not bode well: on the one hand the United States, China, India and other rapidly developing countries on the other, do not yet seem ripe to become a full member in the mechanism of the commitments reduction in binding. And while bears the expiration of the climate treaty (2012), there is already talk of postponing the decision to the next summit of South Africa.
BIODIVERSITY - not so much the better things are on the front of the initiatives to limit the loss of biodiversity, ie the disappearance of living species caused by the impact of human activities on ecosystems: a central theme of this year Wed. The most recent assessments of biodiversity experts talk about an acceleration in the rate of extinction, which would have been exceeded by several thousand times that due solely to natural factors. Of about a hundred million species on the planet, at least ten thousand WOULD BE disappearing every year because of our unsustainable development. With this heavy burden of guilt on his shoulders, the United Nations World Environment Day intend to do something more than the usual parade of celebrations rhetoric rather an opportunity to inform the world public opinion on repair of concrete actions in place by the various environmental bodies and, above all, to carry out educational campaigns targeting young people.
RESOURCES - "We must be clear that the entire system of planetary ecosystems generate resources and services to human development assessed in economic terms, more than 70 trillion dollars every year," said the Director-General 's UNEP Achim Steiner, on the eve of the Sun in Kigali (Rwanda). "It follows that the mismanagement ol'aggressione ecosystems can have adverse economic effects are much more serious economic crisis. The investment for the rehabilitation of natural ecosystems are offended to be considered need a profitable investment, rather than a liability burden. "
SHARES - The head of UNEP has also announced a series of successful actions currently under development in various locations around the world, with the assistance of national and international environmental programs. For example, in Rwanda, Congo and Uganda, standards and stricter controls implemented in mountain areas where they live gorillas made famous by zoologist Dian Fossey (and the film starring Sigourney Weaver), who stopped the slaughter of these animals, which are increasing their population. Their territory was transformed into magnificent natural parks, is now a pilgrimage destination for tourists and scholars from around the world. In Istanbul in Turkey, in two decades, the water purification system, the first devoted to a few hundred thousand inhabitants, has been extended to 9 million people (95% of the population), leading to the rebirth of surface water and groundwater that have become unusable because of pollution. In India and Vietnam in the recovery of thousands of hectares of land populated by mangroves (coastal vegetation formations bass), has rekindled the plant and animal life, with enormous economic benefits for the local food industry.
UNEP - Established in 1972, together with the founding of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, United Nation Environment Programme) World Environment Day is celebrated simultaneously in many capitals and cities of the world, but the main point of reference two international summits, one in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, the other in Pittsburgh, the United States. In Kigali, the Director of UNEP, as well as presenting a report on the recovery of biodiversity titled Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development, attends a ceremony suggestive of baptism of mountain gorillas. In Pittsburgh, most of the reports as the dominant theme was the hydrosphere of our planet and the need to preserve it from the aggression of pollutants: a theme more timely than ever, which had been chosen before the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In Italy Wed initiatives are directed primarily to students, with the launch by the Minister Gelmini Prestigiacomo and a million-euro project for schools to implement environmental education projects.
Source: http://www.corriere.it/scienze_e_tecnologie/speciali/2010/giornata-mondiale-ambiente/notizie/giornata-mondiale-ambiente-foresta-martin_4599f930-6fec-11df-b547-00144f02aabe . shtml
