• 5 Feb 2010
  No Time to Put Climate Science on Ice

  Nairobi, 5 February 2010 - The science of climate change has been on the defensive in recent weeks, owing to an error that dramatically overstated the rate at which the Himalayan glaciers could disappear. Some in the media, and those who are skeptical about climate change, are currently having a field day, parsing every comma and cough in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2007 assessment. Some strident voices are even dismissing climate change as a hoax on a par with the Y2K computer bug. As a result, the public has become increasingly bewildered as the unremitting questioning of the IPCC and its chair assumes almost witch-hunting proportions in some quarters. The time has really come for a reality check.
• 20 Jan 2010UNEP to lead environmental recovery efforts in Haiti
• 13 Jan 2010Haiti Earthquake—UNEP/OCHA Disaster Management Teams on Standby – Staff Member Caught up in Tragedy Sends Eye Witness Account from Port au Prince
• 11 Jan 2010UN International Year of Biodiversity Kicks Off in Berlin - 2010 is Litmus Test of International Community’s Resolve to Conserve and Enhance Planet’s Natural Assets
• 15 Oct 2009Pittsburgh Selected North American Host City for World Environment Day 2010

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