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Law of the Sea Treaty & Republican candidates
November 3, 2007, Comments Off on Law of the Sea Treaty & Republican candidates

November 3, 2007 My Favorite Menace By GAIL COLLINS, Op-Ed Columnist The Law of the Sea Treaty has become a hot-button i ...

UNEP: High hopes and slender means
October 29, 2007, Comments Off on UNEP: High hopes and slender means

Oct 29th 2007 A UN agency struggles with climate change NAIROBI is the third base of operations for the United Nations, ...

Fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4) published
October 25, 2007, 1 Comment

Each person requires a third more land for his or her needs than the planet can supply, says the study. Photograph: Corb ...

Climate Change Meeting at UN
September 24, 2007, 1 Comment

UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to act quickly to deal with climate change. He told a gathe ...

Wednesday Night #1333 – Montreal Protocol & ICAO
September 19, 2007, 1 Comment

19 September 2007 While Montreal lives up to its aspirations as an international city this week with two major conferenc ...

Wednesday Night #1324 – Anne Sophie, Cleo & Kimon
July 18, 2007, 7 Comments

This Wednesday we will sadly say farewell to Anne Sophie Coleman, who leaves Montreal for an exciting new post in Washin ...

Wednesday Night #1289
November 15, 2006, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1289

We hope that some of you were able to attend the Millennium Promises Conference last Thursday, and at the very least, th ...

Wednesday Night #1286 with Pierre Arbour
October 25, 2006, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1286 with Pierre Arbour

How long will there be Life on planet Earth? Unless a solution is found within a relatively short period of time, animal ...

Wednesday Night #1281
September 20, 2006, 3 Comments

Last week’s Wednesday Night discussion was overtaken by events and thus focused mostly on local issues, with the e ...

Wednesday Night #1202
March 16, 2005, 2 Comments

March 16, 2005 Bernard Ebbers It seems only normal that Bernard Ebbers, former C.E.O. of WorldCom, be a topic at Wednesd ...

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