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Flowchart: Alternate Process: National Environmental Awareness Week (NEAW). National Environmental Awareness Week (NEAW) is observed from June 1-7. It is an annual event and the attention is intended to focus public attention on environmental issues. A number of activities have been planned by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) to mark National Environmental Awareness Week 2008. There will be a church service to mark the start of the week on Sunday, June 1 at the Boulevard Baptist Church, in St. Andrew. The service gets underway at 9:00 a.m. The Week links with World Environment Day, June 5 and World Oceans Day, June 8 commemorated each year by United Nations member countries. The environment cannot speak, but reacts, and sometimes violently too. Some of these various reactions can be experienced. As sea levels rise, persons of low-lying islands and coastal cities throughout the world face flooding. Governments and Environmental Matters As glaciers retreat, governments are looking anxiously at future water supplies and for the one-third

Flowchart: Alternate Process: of the world’s population living in dry lands, especially in Africa, changing weather patterns linked to climate change threaten to increase desertification, drought and food insecurity. Society’s Dependence Society’s dependence on fossil fuels is putting at risk social and economic progress and our future security. Fortunately, there are many policy and technological options available to turn from the crisis, but we need increased political will to use them. Developed countries in particular can do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encourage energy efficiency. They can also support clean development in fast-growing economies such as Brazil, China and India, as well as adaptation measures in those countries that face the greatest hardships from climate change. There is overwhelming consensus that this is due to emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), from burning fossil fuels. Examination of ice cores shows that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere than at any time in the past 600,000 years. Read more

Inside this Issue

1. Disaster Preparedness Month

2. Atlantic Caribbean Hurricane Season

3. World Environment Day

4. World Oceans Day

5. National Environment Awareness Environmental