French organization calls for a vegetarian Copenhagen Conference. In a letter to Denmark’s Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen regarding the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Vegetarian Association of France said “…We would like to propose that you arrange for meals with the lowest possible carbon imprint to be served for everyone throughout the summit, namely vegetarian meals or, even better, vegan ones.
This would be a very strong symbolic gesture underlining the willingness of participants to curb the increasing pace of climate degradation.” As the Association stated, “If ever there was a time to give a strong signal, it is now.” Within France, government leaders are well aware of livestock’s enormous share of greenhouse gas emissions.
In an interview during a recent public event titled “Paris en route to Copenhagen,” the city’s Deputy Mayor Mr. Denis Baupin affirmed the city’s climate plan to promote an increase in organic fruits and vegetables in schools, government and other institutions.
The Honorable Denis Baupin - Deputy Mayor of Paris for Sustainable Development, Environment and Climate Plan (M): We must necessarily reduce the meat in our diet. With regard to livestock, there are greenhouse gas emissions associated with not only livestock occupying the land, but also the processes in the passage from feeding the livestock to consuming the meat, plus all the transportation that is involved. But it's also a lot of methane. And methane is a greenhouse gas that is widely underestimated.
So there really are many reasons today to reduce our consumption of meat, and therefore encourage people to do.
VOICE: Our gratitude Deputy Mayor Baupin and the Paris government for your acknowledgment of the need to stop livestock’s excessive emissions. We also thank the Vegetarian Association of France for raising consciousness among world leaders about the Earth-saving veg diet. We pray that the December Climate Change Conference in Denmark yields results that will rescue our planet.
Supreme Master Ching Hai has been steadfastly calling for the veg-promoting endeavors of governments, organizations, and individuals at this crucial time, as in an August 2009 climate change videoconference in Thailand.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: To sum up, to all the leaders I call on them once more to put their love first for their countrymen and women, and for all the children to accept with courage the deed that must be done, to use the mighty power in their hand entrusted by people to save the world. The global livestock industry is now contributing almost about as much to global warming as the energy sector, or even more.
And I know it contributes at least 80% of it. To the organizations of the world, including the media who understand the strength of a social movement, thank you for your work to inform and encourage people to the exciting and humane, beneficial, chic, animal-free – the vegan way of life. To the individuals, thank you for doing your part to save our planet, but please to make it in time, we have more to do and we have little time. Just be vegan. And please, be quick. Our days are numbered.
http://www.vegetarisme.frhttp://www.evana.org/index.php?id=50628&lang=en Iran and Russia collaborate to protect Caspian Sea. As two of five total nations that border the world’s largest inland sea, Iran and Russia recently signed a cooperation agreement to work together in research and monitoring water quality to preserve this important water body. They will also continue to participate in a previously established program intended to help bordering countries achieve sustainable development and manage the richly diverse habitat for the long-term benefit of its inhabitants.
Iran and Russia, our respectful accolades for your partnership on this worthy endeavor. Through such commitment and cooperation as yours, may the Caspian Sea flourish for future generations.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112259§ionid=3510212 http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/capacitybuilding/caspiansea/index.phpExtra NewsScientists warn that 50% of the fresh water fish species in South Australia are in urgent need of ecosystem rehabilitation, suggesting that residents consider halting the diversion of precious water from wetlands by prioritizing aquatic life over their lawns.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/26/2754098.htm?section=justinThe US-based environmental charity, Conservation Fund, uses forest management practices to increase carbon dioxide absorption by 350,000 tons in a California redwood forest, demonstrating the power of forests to store CO2 emissions.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120849322
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