World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
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Is your life about adding somehow to the human environment in such a way that there is a net gain, or is it somehow consuming something from the human environment in such a way that there is a net loss?
On 5 June 1972, in the Swedish capital, they began to build their response, in the form of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - the first UN summit on the environment, and the event that really put the issue on the global political agenda.
Core research areas addressed in the 2011 strategy include: nanomaterial measurement, human exposure assessment, human health, environment, risk assessment and management, and the new core area of predictive modeling and informatics.
The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer safeguards human health and the environment.
Beyond improving human lives and the environment, public-private partnerships will create meaningful jobs for local populations.
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The final disguised cost of oil is the damage it does to the environment and human health.
Val Cameron said regulations had been brought in, in 2010, "to protect human health and the environment".
Another reason to stop destroying our environment with human toxins like CO2 is less selfish: for a Love of Nature.
In response, she channelled the simmering debate to educate the public on the impacts of human actions on the environment.
Providing modern contraception also has the potential to stem population growth and relieve human pressure on the environment and natural resources.
Generation Y has grown up in the safest environment in human history.
The research, from the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, is being presented to the annual conference of the British Psychological Society.
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The agency, which granted a permit in October, has said the Eco Park will not cause significant harm to human health or the environment.
We will seek reauthorization and expanded funding for the Superfund program to continue cleaning up hazardous waste sites which threaten human health and the environment.
That is because cars produce local air pollution, which damages human health and the environment, and also produce greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming.
The science, while theoretically appealing, is seriously incomplete and ill-supported by appropriate evidence, particularly in relation to long-term effects on human health and the environment.
The study was conducted by the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Exeter.
Global warming and human impact on the environment are not scientific fact but social phenomena that quite visibly exhibit beliefs and behaviors that are as old as humanity.
Presumably the inside workforce already has some idea of the efforts of firms around the environment and human rights, as would most communities within which a firm operates.
University's Institute for Environment and Human Security and lead author of the report released Wednesday, said the challenge is to better understand the dynamics of climate-related migration and displacement.
At the same time, plants engineered with less precise and predictable genetic techniques are exempt from EPA review, no matter what hazards they may pose to human health or the environment.
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Aron Cramer, president of BSR, a San Francisco non-profit that works on environment and human rights issues, said Apple, one of its members, isn't alone in issuing detailed working conditions reports.
One IGCP project in 2000 was even at the origin of a new field: medical geology, the science dealing with the impact of our natural environment on human and animal health.
Anti-fracking activists are endangering human health and the environment.
Dr Mathew White and colleagues at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health found that individuals reported less mental distress and higher life satisfaction when they were living in greener areas.
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Levels of landfill gas at a site that residents say is so smelly it keeps them up at night do not pose an immediate risk to human health, the Environment Agency (EA) says.
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Working at the interface of science and environmental policy she will bring together long term data sets on biodiversity, the environment and human impacts to explore spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem functioning and help identify where conservation attention needs to focus in the future.
As firms lunge into emerging markets, they also find themselves more exposed to another increasingly global set of actors: activist pressure groups, urging them to adopt international codes of ethical conduct that commit them to better practices with regard to the environment and human rights.
The creative line chosen for the campaign is an extension of the theme chosen for this year event, which is "The Future we Want", but also strengthens the UNESCO's commitment to sustainable development and respect for human rights and the environment, valuing the path of education.
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