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- February 6, 2012: Water and Our World - Climate Change: Can we change?
- February 7, 2012: Another Drop: Raul Ponce-Hernandez
- February 7, 2012: Municipal PPP Learning Symposium
- February 7, 2012: What's Water Worth? Paving the Way to Water-centric Leadership
- February 7-8, 2012: Issues & Trends in Industrial Wastewater Treatment
- February 8-10, 2012: FCM Sustainable Communities Conference and Trade Show
- February 9, 2012: Leveraging Technology To Optimize Utilities
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Items tagged: united nations
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December 5, 2010 - 8:29 am
Within the evolving field of sustainability, businesses have faced a rapidly evolving series of priorities. Climate change, energy efficiency, corporate citizenship, material efficiency, waste and ethical production have all become common business language. Now, with the United Nations, the Carbon Disclosure...
Categories: Features
October 12, 2010 - 12:00 am
On July 28, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly, noting that “approximately 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and that more than 2.6 billion do not have access to basic sanitation,” adopted a resolution recognizing water as a human right.
The resolution declaring “the...
Categories: Features
July 29, 2010 - 12:11 pm
Yesterday, the United Nations adopted a resolution proclaiming the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation. Presented by Bolivia and 33 other States, the resolution that would "entitle everyone to available, safe, acceptable, accessible and affordable water and sanitation" received 122 votes...
Categories: International, News
January 5, 2010 - 9:42 am
More than two dozen leading United Nations water experts will convene in Hamilton, Ontario from February 2-4 to plan fresh strategy for a coordinated approach to the global water crisis that increasingly threatens both human health and international security.
At its first-ever meeting in Canada, the...
Categories: International, News, Ontario
January 5, 2010 - 8:35 am
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The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.
Categories: Events
March 5, 2009 - 10:28 am
The Council of Canadians is encouraging the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) to vote in favour of a resolution that would call for all municipalities to phase out the sale and purchase of bottled water where appropriate. The vote is expected to take place this Saturday, March 7, at the upcoming...
Categories: National, News
February 23, 2009 - 9:00 pm
Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, has issued a statement on international agreement to work towards a UN treaty that would reduce the amount of mercury entering the environment.
The minister supports the treaty "to control this harmful substance."
"Canada was among the first countries...
Categories: International, National, News
October 23, 2008 - 8:18 am
Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians and founder of the Blue Planet Project, has been appointed as the first senior advisor on water issues by Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, president of the 63rd session of the United Nations.
Barlow, reacting in Ottawa to the announcement...
Categories: International, National, News
May 15, 2008 - 2:08 pm
As governments struggle with a sudden crisis in the price of food, a companion crisis in availability of water also threatens billions of people. To meet the challenge of feeding growing populations and the global hungry, massive reductions in the amount of food wasted after production are needed. The...
Categories: News
May 7, 2008 - 2:19 pm
This month the Centre for Environment at the University of Toronto will host The Value of Water, a one-day workshop that will address address issues such as freshwater scarcity and security, political and human rights implications, corporate risks and investment opportunities, legal and regulatory frameworks...
Categories: News
January - February 2012
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