Protesters against global warming gathered near London Heathrow Airport. Participants are opposing airport expansion.
About 150 people are protesting at the moment, according to different radio stations. It is expected, however,that another thousand people from Britain will join the protesters in the following week.
Protesters believe that aviation is a major source of greenhouse gases.
The republic of South Africa has invoke to the coastal countries with the request to don’t harm to ecosystems by use of resources of the World ocean. With such request Martinus fan Skalquake, minister of preservation of the environment and tourism of republic of South Africa , has take action coming to The conference on the international waters in Cape Town. The conference on the international waters is hold for the fourth time by The Global organization of an environment and by the specialized organizations of the United Nations - The Program of development of the United Nations, The Program on an environment of the United Nations and by The World Bank.
” Any coastal state has the right to use ocean’s riches, but we should recognize presence of back side of using of ecological limits “, - minister has emphasized, having specified on importance of international cooperation in the field of protection of resources of ocean.
More than 350 delegates from 135 countries ,within four days ,discussed about the basic problems of international water ecosystem, about new resources of their studying and about the control over water ecosystem condition, about cooperation of the countries in reasonable utilization of water ecosystem. Besides water areas of the seas and oceans which wash coast of the several countries, the concept ” the international waters ” includes the global river and lake systems, and also underground stocks of water for which use arrogate simultaneously several states. In total the world community for these needs allocates the impressive sum of four billion dollars.
Among most sharp questions of discussions - restoration of the lost coral reeves, the international cooperation in protection of ecosystems of the World ocean. Most of all funds for these needs of the United Nations allocates to Africa - in close proximity 100 million dollars per a year. At the western coast of The Black continent passes well-known Bengal flow. It is one of the richest in the world sources of ocean bio-resources where extraction of diamonds, oil and gas from a coastal shelf is conducted.
At 33 percents of a surface of the Earth there is an active appearing of deserts. This process , by continuation of current trends, in 10 years will affect a life of third of population of the planet. It is spoken about it ,widespread , in the report of University of the United Nations in Tokyo. Experts at this moment estimate annual damage from appearance of deserts approximately in 65 billion US dollars. Experts of University of the United Nations explain reduction of the area of the fertile grounds by global warming of a climate and by primitive methods of housekeeping in developing countries, including cutting down of woods and mass destruction of vegetation by cattle.
Appearance of deserts is especially dangerous develops to the south from the Sahara, in China, the Western Asia, South America.
This phenomenon is noted more than in one hundred countries, from it at this time suffer more than 200 million person. More than 50 million from them in ten years will be compelled to leave the dwellings as disappearance of the fertile grounds will deprive these people of resources of survival.
Experts of University of the United Nations ascertain, that the international community yet has not developed effectual measures of struggle against appearance of deserts ,which annually completely destroys up to 7 million hectares of the grounds, suitable to use.
