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100 relations: Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Amina J. Mohammed, Amina Mohamed, António Guterres, Aquatic ecosystem, Barbara Hendricks (politician), Biodegradable plastic, Biodiversity, Civil society, Climate change, Coastline of China, Collective action, Consciousness raising, Convention on Biological Diversity, Coral reef, Deontological ethics, Dichotomy, Earth, Effects of global warming on oceans, Elizabeth Wilson, Environmental issue, Evidence-based policy, Evo Morales, Federal government of the United States, Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Fisheries management, Fishing industry, Fishing industry in China, Food chain, Food security, Global catastrophic risk, Global change, Global citizenship, Global Fishing Watch, Global issue, Governors Island, Hashtag, Headquarters of the United Nations, History of the world, Human, Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, Ingredients of cosmetics, Isabella Lövin, Island country, Knowledge sharing, Leadership, Lisbon, List of water sports, M. J. Akbar, March for Science, ..., Marine biology, Marine conservation, Marine pollution, Marine protected area, Marine technology, Microplastics, Mukhisa Kituyi, National interest, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, New York City, Noise pollution, Ocean acidification, Ocean current, Ocean governance, Oceanography, Overfishing, Peter Thomson (diplomat), Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags, Plastic bag, Plastic pollution, Political campaign, Private sector, Problem solving, Research development, Resource management, Seabed, Small Island Developing States, Social media, Solutions journalism, Spaceship Earth, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Subsidy, Sustainable business, Sustainable Development Goals, Technology transfer, The Ocean Cleanup, The Pew Charitable Trusts, UNESCO, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, United Nations-Oceans, United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Vessel monitoring system, Voluntary commitment, Waste management, Wildlife Conservation Society, World community, World Environment Day, World Oceans Day, Wu Hongbo, Yangtze. Expand index (50 more) »
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Albert II – Website of the Palace of Monaco (Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi; born 14 March 1958) is the reigning monarch of the Principality of Monaco and head of the princely house of Grimaldi.
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Amina J. Mohammed
Amina J. Mohammed (born 27 June 1961) is the current Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of Environment of Federal Republic of Nigeria from November 2015 to December 2016.
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Amina Mohamed
Amina Chawahir Mohamed Jibril (Aamina Maxamed Jibriil; امينة محمد جبريل) (born 5 October 1961) is a Kenyan lawyer, diplomat and politician.
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António Guterres
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres GCC GCL (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Aquatic ecosystem
An aquatic ecosystem is an ecosystem in a body of water.
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Barbara Hendricks (politician)
Barbara Anne Hendricks (born 29 April 1952) is a German politician and member of the SPD party.
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Biodegradable plastic
Biodegradable plastics are plastics that are decomposed by the action of living organisms, usually bacteria.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Civil society
Civil society is the "aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens".
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Coastline of China
China’s coastline covers approximately 14,500 km (around 9,010 mi) from the Bohai gulf in the north to the Gulf of Tonkin in the south.
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Collective action
Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their status and achieve a common objective.
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Consciousness raising
Consciousness raising (also called awareness raising) is a form of activism, popularized by United States feminists in the late 1960s.
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Convention on Biological Diversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty.
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Coral reef
Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.
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Deontological ethics
In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek δέον, deon, "obligation, duty") is the normative ethical position that judges the morality of an action based on rules.
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Dichotomy
A dichotomy is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets).
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Effects of global warming on oceans
Effects of global warming on oceans provides information on the various effects that global warming has on oceans.
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Elizabeth Wilson
Elizabeth Welter Wilson (April 4, 1921 – May 9, 2015) was an American actress whose career spanned nearly 70 years, including memorable roles in film and television.
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Environmental issue
Environmental issues are harmful effects of human activity on the biophysical environment.
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Evidence-based policy
Evidence-based policy is a term often applied in multiple fields of public policy to refer to situations whereby policy decisions are informed by rigorously established objective evidence.
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Evo Morales
Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959), popularly known as Evo, is a Bolivian politician and cocalero activist who has served as President of Bolivia since 2006.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.
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Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
The Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit), abbreviated BMU, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Fisheries management
Fisheries management is the activity of protecting fishery resources so sustainable exploitation is possible, drawing on fisheries science, and including the precautionary principle.
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Fishing industry
The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products.
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Fishing industry in China
China, with one-fifth of the world's population, accounts for one-third of the world's reported fish production and two-thirds of the worlds reported aquaculture production.
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Food chain
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or trees which use radiation from the Sun to make their food) and ending at apex predator species (like grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivores (like earthworms or woodlice), or decomposer species (such as fungi or bacteria).
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Food security
Food security is a condition related to the availability of food supply, group of people such as (ethnicities, racial, cultural and religious groups) as well as individuals' access to it.
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Global catastrophic risk
A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event which could damage human well-being on a global scale, even crippling or destroying modern civilization.
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Global change
Global change refers to planetary-scale changes in the Earth system.
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Global citizenship
Global citizenship is the idea of all persons having rights and civic responsibilities that come with being a member of the world, with whole-world philosophy and sensibilities, rather than as a citizen of a particular nation or place.
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Global Fishing Watch
Global Fishing Watch is a website launched in September 2016 by Google in partnership with Oceana and "to provide the world’s first global view of commercial fishing activities." At any moment, 200,000 vessels are publicizing their locations via the Automatic Identification System (AIS).
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Global issue
Informally, a global issue is issue that any social, economic, political or environmental problem that adversely affects the global community and our environment, possibly in a catastrophic way.
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Governors Island
Governors Island is a island in New York Harbor, approximately from the southern tip of Manhattan Island and separated from Brooklyn by Buttermilk Channel, approximately.
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Hashtag
A hashtag is a type of metadata tag used on social networks such as Twitter and other microblogging services, allowing users to apply dynamic, user-generated tagging which makes it possible for others to easily find messages with a specific theme or content; it allows easy, informal markup of folk taxonomy without need of any formal taxonomy or markup language.
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Headquarters of the United Nations
The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz.
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History of the world
The history of the world is the history of humanity (or human history), as determined from archaeology, anthropology, genetics, linguistics, and other disciplines; and, for periods since the invention of writing, from recorded history and from secondary sources and studies.
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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.
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Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) is an international issue around the world.
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Ingredients of cosmetics
Cosmetics ingredients come from a variety of sources but, unlike the ingredients of food, are often not considered by most consumers.
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Isabella Lövin
Isabella Lövin (born 3 February 1963) is a Swedish politician for the Green Party who has served as Minister for International Development Cooperation since 2014 and as spokesperson of the Green Party since 2016.
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Island country
An island country is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands.
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Knowledge sharing
Knowledge sharing is an activity through which knowledge (namely, information, skills, or expertise) is exchanged among people, friends, families, communities (for example, Wikipedia), or organizations.
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Leadership
Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to "lead" or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.
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Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.
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List of water sports
There are dozens of commonly played sports that involve water.
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M. J. Akbar
Mobashar Jawed "M.J." Akbar is an Indian politician, who is the Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs, and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, from Madhya Pradesh.
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March for Science
The March for Science (formerly known as the Scientists' March on Washington) is an international series of rallies and marches held on Earth Day.
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Marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of marine life, organisms in the sea.
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Marine conservation
Marine conservation refers to the study of conserving physical and biological marine resources and ecosystem functions.
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Marine pollution
Marine pollution occurs when harmful, or potentially harmful, effects result from the entry into the ocean of chemicals, particles, industrial, agricultural, and residential waste, noise, or the spread of invasive organisms.
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Marine protected area
Marine protected areas (MPA) are protected areas of seas, oceans, estuaries or large lakes.
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Marine technology
Marine technology is defined by WEGEMT (a European association of 40 universities in 17 countries) as "technologies for the safe use, exploitation, protection of, and intervention in, the marine environment." In this regard, according to WEGEMT, the technologies involved in marine technology are the following:, wegemt.org.uk naval architecture, marine engineering, ship design, ship building and ship operations; oil and gas exploration, exploitation, and production; hydrodynamics, navigation, sea surface and sub-surface support, underwater technology and engineering; marine resources (including both renewable and non-renewable marine resources); transport logistics and economics; inland, coastal, short sea and deep sea shipping; protection of the marine environment; leisure and safety.
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Microplastics
Microplastics are small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment.
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Mukhisa Kituyi
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National interest
The national interest, often referred to by the French expression raison d'État ("reason of State"), is a country's goals and ambitions, whether economic, military, cultural or otherwise.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Noise pollution
Sound pollution, also known as environmental noise or noise pollution, is the propagation of noise with harmful impact on the activity of human or animal life.
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Ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Ocean current
An ocean current is a seasonal directed movement of sea water generated by forces acting upon this mean flow, such as wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbing, temperature and salinity differences, while tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon.
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Ocean governance
Ocean governance is the conduct of the policy, actions and affairs regarding the world's oceans.
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Oceanography
Oceanography (compound of the Greek words ὠκεανός meaning "ocean" and γράφω meaning "write"), also known as oceanology, is the study of the physical and biological aspects of the ocean.
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Overfishing
Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish from a body of water at a rate that the species cannot replenish in time, resulting in those species either becoming depleted or very underpopulated in that given area.
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Peter Thomson (diplomat)
Peter Thomson, OF (born 1948 in Suva), is a Fijian diplomat who served as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations from September 2016 until September 2017.
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Phase-out of lightweight plastic bags
In many countries of the world, there has been a phase-out of lightweight plastic bags.
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Plastic bag
A plastic bag, polybag, or pouch is a type of container made of thin, flexible, plastic film, nonwoven fabric, or plastic textile.
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Plastic pollution
Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic products in the environment that adversely affects wildlife, wildlife habitat and humans.
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Political campaign
A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group.
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Private sector
The private sector is the part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the State.
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Problem solving
Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, to find solutions to problems.
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Research development
Research development (RD) is a set of strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity-building activities designed to facilitate individual faculty members, teams of researchers, and central research administrations in attracting extramural research funding, creating relationships, and developing and implementing strategies that increase institutional competitiveness.
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Resource management
In organizational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective development of an organization's resources when they are needed.
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Seabed
The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, or ocean floor) is the bottom of the ocean.
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Small Island Developing States
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are a group of small island countries that tend to share similar sustainable development challenges, including small but growing populations, limited resources, remoteness, susceptibility to natural disasters, vulnerability to external shocks, excessive dependence on international trade, and fragile environments.
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Social media
Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.
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Solutions journalism
Solutions journalism is an approach to news reporting that focuses on the responses to social issues as well as the problems themselves.
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Spaceship Earth
Spaceship Earth or Spacecraft Earth is a world view encouraging everyone on Earth to act as a harmonious crew working toward the greater good.
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Stockholm Resilience Centre
The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), is a non-profit, independent research institute specialising in sustainable development and environmental issues.
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Subsidy
A subsidy is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (or institution, business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy.
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Sustainable business
Sustainable business, or a green business, is an enterprise that has minimal negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that strives to meet the triple bottom line.
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Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a good collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations in 2015.
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Technology transfer
Technology transfer, also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the places and ingroups of its origination to wider distribution among more people and places.
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The Ocean Cleanup
The Ocean Cleanup is a foundation that develops technologies to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and prevent more plastic debris from entering ocean waters.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), founded in 1948.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio 2012, Rio+20, or Earth Summit 2012 was the third international conference on sustainable development aimed at reconciling the economic and environmental goals of the global community.
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United Nations-Oceans
The United Nations-Oceans (UN-Oceans or UN-O) is an inter-agency coordination mechanism of the United Nations, set up to enhance cooperation and coordination of activities concerned with the world oceans and coasts.
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United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement
On June 1, 2017, United States President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would cease all participation in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation.
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Vessel monitoring system
Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) is a general term to describe systems that are used in commercial fishing to allow environmental and fisheries regulatory organizations to track and monitor the activities of fishing vessels.
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Voluntary commitment
Voluntary commitment is the act or practice of a person admitting themself to a psychiatric hospital, or other mental health facility, voluntarily.
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Waste management
Waste management or waste disposal are all the activities and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
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Wildlife Conservation Society
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society (NYZS) and currently works to conserve more than two million square miles of wild places around the world.
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World community
The term world community is used primarily in political and humanitarian contexts to describe an international aggregate of nation states of widely varying types.
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World Environment Day
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on the 5th of June every year, and is the United Nation's principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment.
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World Oceans Day
World Oceans Day takes place every 8 June.
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Wu Hongbo
Wu Hongbo (born May 1952) is a Chinese diplomat.
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Yangtze
The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.
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References
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