SPECIAL FOCUS:
CREATING SUSTAINABILITY

SPECIAL FOCUS:
Toppling the Population Pyramid

SPECIAL FOCUS:
Innovative Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation:
The Case of Oil Exploration in the Yasuni ITT Rainforest

SPECIAL FOCUS:
Preventing Food Insecurity: Role of Media and NGOs

United Nations Conference, November 29th, 2011

Featured articles:

• Dr. Christine K. Durbak, Founder and Chair of WIT, Opening Statement
• H.E. Mr. Yuriy Sergeyev, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Statement
• Mr. William Pope, Senior Advisor, United States Mission to the United Nations, Statement
• Prof. Alexander J. Motyl - Holodomor in Ukraine and Food Insecurity Today
• Dr. Mark G. Robson - Food Insecurity: Preventing Political Famines
• Mr. Tutui Nanok - Exposing causes of Food Insecurity in Horn of Africa
• Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, Division for Sustainable, Development, DESA, UN
• Lloyd C. Irland - Chornobyl Update - Governance, Market Reform and Private Forest Landownership in Developing a Sustainable Forest Policy in Ukraine
• Food For Thought - Soybean Endangers Brazil Amazon Rainforest
• Good News - How activists and scientists saved a rainforest island
• Voices - Second Intersessional Meeting of UNCSD
• Barnett Koven - Voices - Achieving the Education MDG: World Information Transfer Addressing the 2011 ECOSOC High Level Segment of the Annual Ministerial Review
• Author Dr. Bernard D. Goldstein - Point Of View - Unconventional Natural Gas Drilling

APPENDIX

World Famines:

• Famine in South Sudan
• Famine in Laos
• Famine in Ireland
• Famine in Ethiopia
• Famine in Darfur
• Famine in China
• Famine in Cambodia

Summer-Fall 2011, vol. XXIII No.2,3

NUCLEAR POWER: HISTORY REVISITED

20th International Conference on Health and Environment:
Global Partners for Global Solutions

July 2012

 
Our time at the United Nations has given us invaluable experiences, instilling in us all greater aspirations for a more peaceful and sustainable world. We reflect back on our time in the hopes of inspiring greater education, progressive debate, and broader perspectives. While our interns range in age, gender, race, geographical location, and area of study, we have come to understand that we are all united by a international call to sustainable awareness and action, as we are all part of one global economy, ecology, and community.
 
From the U.N. Economic and Social Council meetings on topics relating to development, such as unemployment, technology, and aid, to interactive discussions with UN officers, we have learned that like WIT, the United Nations and the greater international community have embraced the age of sustainable development. Drawing on such engaging dialogues and debates, our July 2012 issue of the Ecology Enquirer aims tackle current environmental and health issues that may be underrepresented on the world stage and raise greater awareness of these issues.

WIT’s Summer Speakers Series 2012

Impressions from Rio+20
 
During the course of WIT’s 2012 summer internship program, a number of speakers from various academic and professional backgrounds are invited to speak to the interns and share their knowledge and experiences. They represent a variety of fields that relate to WIT’s work in the United Nations, giving the interns a great opportunity to learn about different perspectives on critical international health and environmental issues. In addition, WIT’s spring interns had a chance to attend the Rio+20 Conference in June, sharing their experiences in this edition of the Speakers Series.