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Environmental protection. Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, groups and governments. [ 1 ] Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where it is possible, to repair damage and reverse trends.
Environmental education (EE) refers to organized efforts to teach how natural environments function, and particularly, how human beings can manage behavior and ecosystems to live sustainably. It is a multi-disciplinary field integrating disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, ecology, earth science, atmospheric science, mathematics ...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. [1][2] It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972. Its mandate is to provide leadership, deliver ...
Fauna and Flora International. Fondation Pacifique. Foundation for Environmental Education. Forest Stewardship Council. Forests and the European Union Resource Network. Frankfurt Zoological Society. Friends of Nature. Friends of the Earth. Global Footprint Network.
Nature conservation is the moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity. A range of values underlie conservation, which can be guided by biocentrism, anthropocentrism, ecocentrism, and sentientism ...
The convention's main objective is explained in Article 2. It is the "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic [i.e., human-caused] interference with the climate system". [1] The treaty calls for continuing scientific research into the climate.
ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution. Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. Barcelona Convention for Protection against Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea, 1976. Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, Basel, 1989.
A Decades-Old Environmental Law in Need of a Makeover ... which also included the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), the Clean Air Act (1970), the Clean Water Act (1972), and ...