This September, Monaco is proud to partner with Travel+Leisure magazine for the first ever Project Globe – a stylised art and design exhibition featuring some of the world’s most creative minds. This high-visibility initiative aims to raise awareness of responsible travel and help ensure the world’s natural treasures survive for future generations of travelers.
Project Globe will feature 20 works of art inspired by travel and designed by some of the world’s most creative talents and will be auctioned at a gala event on September 18 to benefit Future Generations. An integral part of Project Globe will be Monaco Lounge - a cutting edge, customized installment highlighting Monaco’s past, present and future dedication to the world’s natural environment - and the important international works and mission of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
In 2008, one in six people still has no access to drinking water. Yet many issues – health, food and economic – are dependent on this resource. This special report will shed light on the reasons for such shortage and outline the solutions provided by international players and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today acknowledged seven luminaries in the fight against global warming as this year’s Champions of the Earth.The recipients of the award, which is in its fourth year, include Prince Albert II of Monaco and Balgis Osman-Elasha, a Sudanese climate researcher who has effectively piloted climate-proofing strategies in some of the most affected areas in the world.
Fontvieille, together with Rocca, is one of the two Bearded Vultures released by H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco into the heart of the Mercantour Park in the village of Roubion on 22nd May 2007 (International Biodiversity Day) within the scope of a 3 year partnership with the Mercantour Park and the Alpi Marittime Park for the reintroduction and protection of Bearded Vultures in the southern Alps.
The project enables 2 young birds to be purchased each year which are then released into the 2 parks alternately.
Fontvieille and Rocca were released equipped with tags placed on their backs, one GPS/GSM and the other an Argos. Since the 7th April, Fontvieille’s tag has shown no movement but is still sending out a signal, which has been located in Vanoise close to Termignon, in a very remote and, after the last snowfall, deeply snow-covered area.
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The General Assembly has an opportunity to take real action on global warming. The Global Warming Solutions Act would cut our greenhouse gas pollution 25 percent by 2020 and 90 percent by 2050, as recommended by the governor’s Commission on Climate Change.
Why now? Because we can’t continue to wait and debate. The damage to Maryland’s economy and to our environment - particularly the Chesapeake Bay - if we do nothing is far too great a cost to bear.
The government warned yesterday that European climate change laws being announced in Brussels today could be exploited by protectionist forces in the EU to damage free trade.
American concerns that elements of the climate change package being announced by José Manuel Barroso, the European commission president, could entail erecting trade barriers, were echoed by the energy minister, Malcolm Wicks, and paved the way for a dispute with the French and Germans over how to tax big industrial polluters.
I read Martin Williams’s article (Fears as melting ice brings new interest in Greenland’s oil and gas, January 17) with great interest, particularly his reference to the “campaigners’ assertion that the melting of the ice is further evidence that climate change is not being tackled effectively”. Presumably, this is a reference to current “inadequate” CO2 emission initiatives.
It so happened that I have been reading a book entitled Unstoppable Global Warming. In this book, reference is made to findings that temperatures were an average of 2-4C higher than at present in Greenland one thousand years ago when Norse Vikings occupied parts of west Greenland and lived there until driven out by encroaching ice around 1400 AD. This book makes an interesting assertion that climate change moves in 1500-year cycles (+/- 500 years) with our warming cycle having started around 1850 after an intervening cold period starting around 1400 AD.
The way aircraft take off, fly and land in Britain will undergo a significant overhaul as part of plans to cut aviation emissions by 10% over the next decade. The national air traffic controller, Nats, has pledged to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide generated in British airspace by 2020. Meeting the benchmark will require new approach paths for airports, greater cooperation with neighbouring air traffic regimes and shorter delays on airport taxi-ways. Nats expects its initiatives to reduce the amount of fuel needed each journey by 10%.
Greenland’s ice sheet shrank more rapidly last summer than at any other time in the past 50 years, measurements have shown.
Researchers said the extent of the melt was evidence that the ice sheet was in “inexorable decline” because of global warming.
The researchers found a shift in meteorological patterns over the past 15 years, with a direct correlation being found between Greenland’s weather and the generally warmer weather across both the northern and southern hemispheres. Previously, regional influences have held sway.
This September, Monaco is proud to partner with Travel+Leisure magazine for the first ever Project Globe – a stylised art and design exhibition featuring some of the world’s most creative minds. This high-visibility initiative aims to raise awareness of responsible travel and help ensure the world’s natural treasures survive for future generations of travelers.
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation