United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP)

United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP)

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Secretariat: Mayte Gómez and Rosenda Zagal

·         Chair: Karen Armas Reséndiz

·         Moderator: Giomar Farid

·         Conference Officer: Jimena Prado Ramírez

        Topics

            a. Global warming and its consequences on health issues.


b. How to stop the disappearance of species and its effects on the food chain.

Moderator: 

Guiomar Farid Torres Guerrero                                                                           

Hobbies:                                                                       

 Watch TV, eat candies, stay and talk with my friends. 

As well as to eat fruit, listen to music and use my ipod.                                                     

Dislikes: 

Garlic, onions ,melon. watermelon, biology, insects and homework,

 Topic A : Global warming and its consequences on health issues.


Global warming is all about adverse climate change caused by the trapping of green house gases (like carbon dioxide) in the earth’s atmosphere that affects biodiversity and poses a serious health hazard. Counter measures to facilitate living in hotter temperatures like air-conditioning and refrigeration will unfortunately consume more electricity from power plants that burn coal, releasing carbon dioxide. This will further spike global warming and have a seriously damaging influence on human health.

Recent outbreaks of malaria, dengue fever (“break bone” fever), Hanta virus and similar diseases in the West due to climate change are the consequences of global warming, according to some Harvard Medical School doctors. The incidence of kidney stones is likely to go up and so are many other conditions. The long term serious consequence to human health is likely to threaten our very existence on this planet.


Read More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2307/1941591

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—a multidisciplinary scientific body established by the United Nations in 1988 to advise governments—concluded that on balance an anthropogenic influence upon the global climate was now “discernible.”

This greatly extends the temporal-spatial scale of environmental health beyond our usual concern with localized and immediate exposures to toxic or infectious agent’s .For a major research task, therefore, is the application of current knowledge to forecasting probable health effects. The primary objective is to provide indicative forecasts of an important consequence.

1.     Anthony J McMichael (t.mcmichael@LSHTM.ac.uk)a,

2.     Andrew Hainesb, professor of primary health care

 Author Affiliations

1.     ^a Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT

2.     ^b Joint Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and University College London Medical School, London NW3 2PF

1.     Correspondence to: Professor McMichael

Bibliography:

Read more: Health Effects of Global Warming | Medindia http://www.medindia.net/patients/lifestyleandwellness/health-effects-of-global-warming.htm#ixzz1v9HwR0E8

The consequences of global warming. Page consulted on May 17^th at: http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fcons.asp

Global Warming. Page consulted on May 17^th at: http://www.earthtimes.org/encyclopaedia/environmental-issues/global-warming/

http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7111/805.short

Topic B: How to stop the disappearance of species and its effects on the food chain.

Actually the quantity of species that are disappearing is very alarming because right now the species are disappearing in 1000 faster than the normal extinction time, all of this is just caused principally by the destruction of rainforests and natural ecosystem because the 80% of the natural wild life is just localized in naturals rain forest, as the example of panama that the scientist discovers that the 80% of species of beetles where discover in just 19 trees in  one panamas rain forest, but what does this affects humans, well it affects, principally the food chains, the constant disappearance of species, makes a hole in a complicated food chain web, that has to be reorganized faster by nature because if not the complex ecosystem in which the extinct specie or species use to live and reproduce will be destroy by the death of the hunter animals that eat them, that makes the last consumer species to die, causing and excess of death bodies that pollute the natural space that finally is destroyed by the predominance of one or more than one plant species, after the disappearance of the complete ecosystem, the death space later years, become another new ecosystem, probably this cannot affect nature and food chains, but by the high number of diary number of extinct species make a lot off ecosystems disappear and the use of those spaces for human activities, elite that ecosystems been born , so after all ecosystems are destroy humans has no to eat and we have killed all the world just for money.

Bibliography: No data, No data, consulted on Monday 21 may 2012 on : http://library.thinkquest.org/26634/text/forest/animal/extinction.htm

UNEP	Delegate	Country
1	Torres Suárez Arturo	SPAIN
2	Huizar Guzman Víctor E.	SWITZERLAND
3	Rodríguez Rodríguez Ricarda	NORTH KOREA
5	Aguilar Gabriela	FRANCE
6	Buenrrostro Miguel Ángel	POLAND
7	Hinojosa Contreras Ximena	GERMANY
8	Mendez Pimentel Christopher	UKRAINE
9	López Reyes Andrés	UK
10	Salcido Luna María Fernanda	INDONESIA
11	De León Banda Mariana	CHINA
12	Domínguez Santiago Horacio	MEXICO
13	Cuevas Puigferrat Pablo	USA
14	González Enríquez Melanie	CANADA
15	Alcántara Miranda Jocelyn	NORWAY
16	Pérez Henández María Ximena	RUSSIAN FEDERATION
17	Castillo Sandra	INDIA
18	Durón Aguilera Luis Hector	NETHERLANDS
19	Miguel Ángel Maillard	AUSTRALIA
20	Martínez Espinosa Diana Rocío	ITALY
21	RODRIGUEZ RUBIO MARIA FERNANDA	ICELAND
22	PAZ GONZALEZ CLAUDIA DANIELA	SWEDEN