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NOBEL
PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTALIST WANGARI MAATHAI "I
love the trees, I love the colour. To me they represent
life, and they represent hope. I think it is the green colour.
I tell people I think heaven is green."
Wangari Maathai
The
Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded this year to Africa's
staunchest defender of the environment, Professor Wangari
Maathai, for her contribution to sustainable development,
democracy and peace.More
information...
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United Nations
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OCTOBER
4 - WORLD HABITAT DAY
Every
year, since 1985 World Habitat Day has been celebrated on
the first Monday in October. This day has been set aside
by the United Nations for the world to reflect on the state
of human settlements and the basic right to adequate shelter
and to remind the world of its collective responsibility
for the future of the human habitat.
The theme of this year's World Habitat Day will be Cities
- engines of rural development. It underlines the importance
of mutually beneficial linkages that are essential for the
development of both cities and rural areas.
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informataion (Font: un-habitat)
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OCTOBER
2nd - INTERAMERICAN WATER DAY
Since 1993 every year the first Saturday of October is commemorated
the Inter-American Water Day. It was promoted by the Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American
Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (AIDIS)
and the Caribbean Water And Wastewater Association (CWWA).
Its objective is to pay tribute to water as the basis of
our existence. The commemoration of this special day highlights
the importance of water for the well-being, health and sustainable
development of all humankind.
More
information...
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Represented
by Stela Goldenstein, permanent member of its Technical
Advisory Committee, the EMS participated on this important
event.
Ms.
Goldenstein, shared the Dialogue 2 Urban Sustainability"
Environment, Economy, Society" Commitment to a Culture
of Partnerships for a Sustainable Urbanisation. More
information...
Available
the draft report of the Second Session
INFO-EMS SPECIAL EDITION
WORLD URBAN FORUM BARCELONA. SEPTEMBER 2004 - 228
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MILENIO
AMBIENTAL
Maureen O'Neil, IDRC (Canada) President, welcomes the
readers of Milenio Ambiental, the EMS magazine. We invite
you to explore this new information proposal carried out
with the journalistic collaboration of Tierramérica
Network and IPS - Inter Press Service. Within
this framework, the EMS, through its Small Grants Research
Program, announces the results
of the call entitled: "Multi-stakeholder
Partnerships for the Sustainable use of water in urban
areas"
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SIGA:
A TOOL FOR PREVENTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS
The EMS has elaborated a Manual
for Environmental Planning of Vulnerable Areas, based
on the application of an Integrated System for Environmental
Management. This tool aims to support the work of municipalities
providing a methodology for the environmental planning
of vulnerable and risk areas, as a key element to prevent
environmental disasters. More
information
Central American Municipal
Technicians are trained in Prevention and Mitigation of
Urban Environmental Risks. San
Pedro Sula, Honduras. 17-21 November 2003. More
information
Technical Evaluation and
Training Workshop in the Mercocities
Montevideo, Uruguay. 17 November,
2003. More
information
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SURVEY ON MUNICIPAL WATER AND SOLID
WASTE MANAGEMENT IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Participate!
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EMS
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In
line with the agreement signed on November 2000, between the MercoCities
Network and the Environmental Management Secretariat for Latin
America of the International Development Research Centre (EMS/IDRC),
two projects have been developed.
More information here (in
Spanish only)
See the Memorandum of Understanding among EMS-FEMICA and MERCOCITIES
NETWORK - click
here (pdf format in Spanish only)
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The EMS has developed many projects within the MERCOSUR and in
all LAC retion in the fields of:
Public-Private
Partnerships
Management of Microbasins
and Urban Pollution
Management of Solid
Wastes
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