Salvaguardar el entorno a nivel global, nacional y local.
Podemos todavía escoger cómo utilizar nuestro medio ambiente. Cuando utilizamos los recursos inteligentemente, hacemos honor a la confianza que han depositado las generaciones futuras. Las amenazas ambientales como el calentamiento global y la crisis del agua afectan principalmente a los niños y niñas. Las enfermedades transmitidas por el agua causan la muerte evitable y la enfermedad a millones de niños y niñas. Las amenazas ambientales continuaran a cobrarse su caro peaje, porque los errores de ahora afectarán también al mundo mañana.
Tenemos que actuar ahora. El mundo pertenece a nuestros hijos e hijas; somos sus cuidadores. Tenemos que preservar nuestros recursos naturales incluso cuando los usamos, para asegurar el derecho de la infancia a un medio ambiente saludable.
Tenemos que actuar ahora. El mundo pertenece a nuestros hijos e hijas; somos sus cuidadores. Tenemos que preservar nuestros recursos naturales incluso cuando los usamos, para asegurar el derecho de la infancia a un medio ambiente saludable.
Campaña Mundial para la Acción Climática
La Campaña Mundial para la Acción Climática (Global Campaign for Climate Action - GCCA) es una iniciativa completamente nueva que incluye a un número de organizaciones nacionales e internacionales para apoyar un sólo objetivo: movilizar a la sociedad civil y mostrar a la opinión pública la importancia de un gran movimiento de acción contra el cambio climático.
La Campaña Mundial para la Acción Climática ha creado TckTckTck, una alianza mundial sin precedentes de organizaciones, uniones comerciales, grupos religiosos y gente. Todos ellos piden un acuerdo justo, ambicioso y vinculante para luchar contra el cambio climático. Estamos en un momento de crisis, con dos caminos ante n...
Saving our forests
The world's forests contain some of the most richest and most diverse
habitats on earth. They represent a vast reservoir of knowledge and
contain a wealth of ecosystems and wildlife, with many species yet to
be discovered. Inhabitants of forests have genuine rights to use the
forests. A balance must be achieved between saving the forest and
protecting the rights of those who have inherited rights to use them.
Not only does there need be focus on deforestation and the real causes
behind it, but also on reforestation programmes across the world. Most
popular campaigns focus on rainforests however many other types of
forest exist and many other types of reforestation programmes take
p...
World Environment Day
World Environment Day (WED) 2010 is aimed to be the biggest, most widely celebrated, global day for positive, environmental action.
Commemorated on 5 June since 1972, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action.
Through WED, we are able to give a human face to environmental issues and enable people to realize not only their responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development.
WED is also a day for advocating partnerships among all stakeholders or perhaps, even more correctly, among all species living on this one plan...
World Water Day
International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of the abysmal sanitation conditions endured by some 2.6 billion people globally. That adds up to an unconscionable 1.5 million young lives cut short by a cause we know well how to prevent.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 4 billion cases of diarrhea each year in addition to millions of other cases of illness are associated with lack of access to water that is safe for human consumption. Per year 2,2 million people die as a result of ...
Student environmental action
For years solar power has presented a clean alternative to more conventional forms of energy.
The
Student Environmental Action Coalition
brings young people in the US together on campaigns supporting
alternative forms of clean energy. Much of their research is based on
states in North America and the impetus of their work is around
university and school campuses. For example, the University of Oregon
Campaign is focusing on making the campus 100% dependant on renewable
and clean energies within 10 years and in Princeton University,
campaigners are working to have solar panels installed on campus. Click here to read more about the extensive campus campaigns and to le...
Water, water, everywhere...
..but would you drink it and who has access it to it?
'Restricted access to clean water is one of the most fundamental
problems facing families in developing countries. It's a staggering
fact that water-borne diseases kill more than two million people a year
in developing countries - most of them children. Unthinkably, more than
6,000 children die each day as a result of drinking dirty, contaminated
water.'
Plan
Clean, drinkable water is a basic human right for everyone. Populations
in Northern countries take this for granted. Despite the abundance of
water resources, in many countries children are being excluded from
access to water. One of the most poignant i...
