As 1.3 billion Chinese thunder into the great pleasures of consumption, municipal waste is certainly a major environmental concern. This graph shows the amount of waste from 1991 to 2003 in Hong Kong. [..]
One person’s dustbin is not the same as another’s. Depending on which continent you live on, on your life style, financial resources, and so on, your trash will be different. This shows two cases from [..]
As numerous studies have demonstrated, women bear the
disproportionate burden of the costs of disasters, if their rights are not ensured and if gender, socio-cultural and political-economic [..]
Maiti Nepal rescues an estimated 2,000 thousand girls each
year, including children and women intercepted at borders and victims liberated from brothels and from various forms of abuse and [..]
Some estimates from Maiti Nepal suggest that trafficking from Nepal may have increased from an estimated 3-5,000 per year during the pre-war times (1990) to possibly 12-20,000 per year in 2010. This [..]
Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest nations is also the country most vulnerable to sea-level rise.
The population is already severely affected by storm surges. Catastrophic events in the past have [..]
Emissions from human activities, and primarily fossil fuels, contribute to climate change, global warming and the greenhouse effect. This is primarily from industry, energy, transportation and related [..]
This set of graphics has been produced by GRID-Arendal in co-operation with the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for the 7th Conference of the Parties [..]
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