Environment & Natural Resources in the 21st Century

A report issued last week by the United Nations "calls for greater efforts to advance environmentally sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which has witnessed the constant reduction of forest areas and the sustained increase of carbon dioxide emissions."

The report, "Millennium Development Goals: Advances in Environmentally Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean", says that the region's deforestation is nearly twice the world's average.

Moreover, carbon dioxide emissions have grown more than 40 percent from 1990 to 2005. The primary factors in the growth have been the production of cement and the use of fossil fuels.

(Thanks to Joan Policastri, Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at DU's Westminster Law Library for calling this to our attention.)