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Environmental Health
The greatest polluters of Kazakhstan: Steelworks, oilfields and power plants. Many companies do not publish their data.
Thursday, 14 July 2016
Today, top-tens of the biggest polluters of Kazakhstan based on the official data were published. The charts reveal that the environment has been greatly contaminated by steelworks Kazakhmys and ArcelorMittal, oil companies KazMunaiGas and KazTransOil and power plant in Ekibastuz. Interactive map of facilities that exceed the safe threshold limits valid in the EU (1) is now available in clearly understandable form on-line at www.ecocitizens.kz.
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Sustainable Development
IPEN Signs-On to Letter to the European Parliament on TTIP
Sunday, 10 July 2016
IPEN joined over 65 organizations signing-on to a letter to the President of the European Parliament expressing concerns that the European Commission (EC) is failing to respect the European Parliament's 2015 resolution on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
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OSCE office in Yerevan presents awards to best women entrepreneurs in Armenia
Thursday, 07 July 2016
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) office in Yerevan, Armenia presented a "Best Women Entrepreneur for 2016" prize to IPEN Participating Orgnization Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE) for their project to improve entrepreneurial skills and income generating capacities of female farmers through the use of solar fruit- and herb-drying equipment and technologies. The awards were presented to local partners that have promoted good and innovative practices through project activities.
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Waste
Environmental Activists Call Out Canada’s Failure to Reclaim Stinking Trash, Ask PM Trudeau to Re-Import “Overstaying” Garbage
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
Makati City/Quezon City. As Filipinos usher in the Duterte government and his promise of change, environmental activists gathered anew outside the Embassy of Canada in Makati City to denounce the long-drawn-out Canadian garbage dumping scandal that has haunted the outgoing Aquino administration.

At a peaceful rally organized by the EcoWaste Coalition and Buklod Tao, the activists called out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his government’s failure to re-import the illegal trash shipments that have been rotting in Manila and Subic ports.
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Dr. Emma Anakhasyan from NGO Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment speaking during a side event on "Emerging Environmental Health Challenges in the UNECE Region."

Green Economy
Focus on a Green Economy at the 8th Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
IPEN and Participating Organization (PO) representatives from Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (Armenia), Greenwomen (Kazakhstan), Independent Ecological Expertise (Kyrgyzstan), Eco-Accord (Russia), Volgograd Ecopress (Russia) and others participated in the recent 8th Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference in Batumi, Georgia (8 - 10 June, 2016). The theme of this year’s Conference was “Greener, Cleaner, Smarter,” and much of its content focused on a green economy. See detailed information here.
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Asbestos
Kathleen Ruff: How one single-minded activist helped turn the tide on asbestos
Monday, 06 June 2016
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/kathleen-ruff-how-one-single-...
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PCBs
Ram Charitra Sah receives Nepalese Environment Conservation Award 2016
Monday, 06 June 2016
On the occasion of World Environment Day, Ram Charitra Sah, Director of IPEN Participating Organization Center for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED), was presented with the Environment Conservation Award 2016 by K.P. Sharma Oli, Rt. Honorable Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. The award recognized Mr. Sah's work for environment conservation and protection of public health.
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Zero waste
Seminario se realizó el pasado fin de semana en Buenos Aires: Reflexiones sobre nuevas formas de incidencia y activismo se presentaron en seminario sobre consumo, agroecología y residuos.
Friday, 03 June 2016
Buenos Aires, 31 de mayo 2016. El cruce de reflexiones e información en torno a modelos de producción y consumo y las alternativas de la agroecología y basura cero en un contexto de lucha contra el cambio climático y la justicia ambiental, se dio lugar en un Seminario realizado este fin de semana en Buenos Aires.
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Environmental Justice
groundWork Celebrates World Environment Day: Launches Environmental Justice School
Friday, 03 June 2016
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Pamela Miller Elected as IPEN's New Co-Chair
Wednesday, 01 June 2016
IPEN is pleased to confirm that the IPEN General Assembly has formally endorsed Ms. Pamela Miller as the next IPEN Co-Chair.
Pamela has a long history of organizing experience, including her role as the Executive Director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics, contributor to IPEN’s POPRC and Stockholm Convention COP policy work, and organizer with Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic.
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The greatest polluters of Kazakhstan: Steelworks, oilfields and power plants. Many companies do not publish their data.

IPEN Signs-On to Letter to the European Parliament on TTIP

OSCE office in Yerevan presents awards to best women entrepreneurs in Armenia

Environmental Activists Call Out Canada’s Failure to Reclaim Stinking Trash, Ask PM Trudeau to Re-Import “Overstaying” Garbage

Focus on a Green Economy at the 8th Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference

Kathleen Ruff: How one single-minded activist helped turn the tide on asbestos

Ram Charitra Sah receives Nepalese Environment Conservation Award 2016

Seminario se realizó el pasado fin de semana en Buenos Aires: Reflexiones sobre nuevas formas de incidencia y activismo se presentaron en seminario sobre consumo, agroecología y residuos.

groundWork Celebrates World Environment Day: Launches Environmental Justice School

Pamela Miller Elected as IPEN's New Co-Chair

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