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Earthwatch was established in 1972 to "monitor major global disturbance in the environment and to give early warning of problems requiring international action". The program is coordinated by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The focus is on providing data to support decision-making in response to the UN General Assembly ...
The Palace of Nations.The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second most important UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters.. While the Secretariat of the United Nations is headquartered in New York City, its many bodies, specialized agencies, and related organizations are headquartered in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe.
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and countries, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for coordinating the actions of member states. [2]
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First week in February every year in the United States National Wildlife Week [185] National Dark-Sky Week: Week of new moon in April Bike to Work Week Victoria: National Pollinator Week [186] Third Week in June Mosquito Awareness Week: June 22–28 [187] Plastic Free July [188] July 1–31 National Clean Beaches Week [citation needed] July 1–7
EarthWatch Incorporated, now DigitalGlobe, a commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content; United Nations System-wide Earthwatch, a United Nations mechanism for sharing environmental information among agencies, published on a central website; Earthwatch, an Australian children's television show from 1979 into the early 1980s
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.
1 December - World AIDS Day; 2 December - World Futures Day [22] 3 December - International Day of Persons with Disabilities; 10 December - Human Rights Day; 18 December - International Migrants Day; 18 December - World Arabic Language Day