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Video from HSH the Prince of Monaco at the U.N. during Climate Week

September 23, 2009

Posted by Lisa Speer in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

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arctic, arcticcommision, arcticfisheries, arcticocean, arcticseaice, climateweek, copenhagencountdown, globalwarming, monaco, polarbears, princealbertII, unitednations, unitednationsarctic

NRDC President Frances Beinecke and I did a press conference at the United Nations yesterday with HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and others to highlight the impacts of global warming on the Arctic and the urgent need to both...continued

The U.S. Should Sign the Law of the Sea Treaty

June 8, 2009

Posted by Lisa Speer in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
healthyoceans, lawofthesea, presidentobama, unitednations, worldoceansday

Today is World Oceans Day - and in Washington, the U.S. Senate is in the midst of deciding whether or not to sign on to the United Nations Law of the Sea treaty, which would expand protections for our planet's...continued

Managing a melting Arctic

April 29, 2009

Posted by Lisa Speer in Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
alainhubert, arctic, arcticocean, copenhagen, drilling, fishing, globalleadershipcouncil, globalwarming, larrylunt, melting, oceans, oil, polarbears, shipping, unitednations

As I type, NRDC Global Leadership Council member Larry Lunt and Belgian explorer Alain Hubert, co-founder of the International Polar Foundation, are trekking across Greenland's Humboldt Glacier, getting a firsthand glimpse of the area of the world showing the most...continued

Lisa Speer
Lisa Speer
Director of the International Oceans Program
New York
I direct the International Oceans Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental...
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