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    It’s Clean Up the World Weekend — Get Involved!

    By Keith R | September 14, 2007

    Topics: Environmental Protection, Marine/Coastal Issues, Waste & Recycling | No Comments »

          
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    This weekend across the world, including much of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), people will be joining NGOs and community groups in events designed to clean up beaches, coastal waters, rivers, lakes, parks, reserves and their surroundings as part of the annual Clean Up the World Weekend. Copied below is the official press release from the event’s global co-sponsors.

    To get the list of the organizers in LAC nations and how to contact them, click here to download the PDF file.

    Looking over the list, I’m pleased that LAC is well represented. But I’m also dismayed that once again there are important places that are conspicuous by their absence. Why, given their many beaches, the importance of tourism to their economies, and their trash problems, do I not see Barbados, Costa Rica, Jamaica or the Dominican Republic in this list??? (even poor, ravaged Haiti is on the list, but not its richer neighbor, the DR! For shame!). Why are Cancun, Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco, Fortaleza, Recife and Punta del Este missing??? Where are Antigua, Belize, the Caymen Islands, Dominica, St. Lucia? Why are only some, but not all, of the LAC national capitals on that list? Shouldn’t Mexico City, Asunción, Montevideo, Santiago de Chile, San Juan (Costa Rica), San Salvador, Quito, Bridgetown and Georgetown be there?

    Events in the LAC region will be held in:

    Argentina
    Buenos Aires
    Calafate
    Chos Malal
    Cuidad Mendoza
    Comodoro Rivadavia
    Concepción de la Sierra
    Córdoba
    El Dorado
    Entre Rios
    Hurlinghan
    Mar del Plata
    Pilar
    Puerto Iguazu
    Puerto Madryn
    Rosario
    San Javier
    San Salvador de Jujuy
    Santa Rosa
    Santiago del Estero
    Sunchales
    Aruba
    Bolivia

    Chayanta
    Cochabamba
    La Paz
    Potosí
    Rurrenabaque
    Brazil
    Balneario Barra do Sul
    Balneario Camboriu
    Brasilia
    Cabo Frio
    Cacha – Pregos
    Curitiba
    Itanhaem
    Manaus
    Parnamirim
    Petropolis
    Rio de Janerio [Praias de Botafogo, Urca, Flamengo, Copacabana, Ipanema, Leblon, São Conrado, Barra da Tijuca e Prainha, Lagoas Rodrigo de Freitas & Marapendi and in Sepetiba, Itacoatiara, Itacuruçá e Mangaratiba]
    Salvador
    São Paulo
    Uberlandia
    Vera Cruz
    Vitória
    Chile
    Chacabuco
    Ciudad de Osorio
    Diego de Almargo
    San Bernardo
    Colombia
    Barranquilla
    Bogotá
    Cali
    Cartagena
    Medellin
    Monteria
    Cuba
    Ciego de Avila
    Cienega
    Habana del Este
    La Habana
    Morón
    Ecuador
    Guayaquil
    Loja
    El Salvador
    Santa Tecla
    Guatemala
    Antigua
    Haiti
    Port-au-prince
    Honduras
    Francisco Morazan
    México
    Acuña
    Aguascalientes
    Ciudad Juárez
    Ciudad Victoria
    Cuautla
    Gómez Palacio
    Guadalajara
    Hermosillo
    Huixquilucan de Degallado
    La Paz
    Monterrey
    Nezaghualcoyctl
    Pachuca
    Tlaxco
    Torreon
    Tuxtla Gutiérrez
    Zacapu
    Netherlands Antilles
    Kralendijk
    Nicaragua
    Managua
    Panamá
    David
    Paraguay
    Departamento Central
    Perú
    Arequipa
    Chiclayo
    Chimbote
    Cusco
    Huamanga
    Huancayo
    Lima
    Mayorazgo
    Puno
    San Miguel
    Puerto Rico
    San Juan
    Uruguay
    Durazno
    Fotin de Santa Rosa
    Rivera
    Soca
    Venezuela
    Caracas
    Lechería
    Monagas

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    From Clean Up the World:

    Global campaign tackling greatest environmental challenge: climate change

    Community-based action on climate change involving an estimated 35 million people across the planet in 2007 will culminate in the Clean Up the World Weekend on 14-16 September.

    More than 650 non-government organisations, community groups, local councils and other agencies in 115 countries are currently working on projects in 2007 to improve the health of the environment.

    The focus of many community activities around the world has been on limiting the impacts of climate change though activities such as waste reduction and recycling, water and energy conservation, and revegetation.

    On Clean Up the World Weekend, organisations will engage volunteers to take part in activities designed to clean up, fix up and conserve their local environment.

    The Australian founder and chairman of Clean Up the World, Ian Kiernan said communities in many countries are demonstrating that simple actions can make a real and lasting difference.

    “Millions of people simply conserving water, and recycling waste adds up to a huge environmental benefit for the planet.

    “Our aim is to encourage individuals to take responsibility for the environment through a range of affordable actions. What is inspiring is the variety of activities that participating organisations have initiated in their countries in response to this challenge.”

    Among those undertaking activities as part of the weekend, Our Earth Foundation in Poland and the Tonga Solid Waste Management Project in the Pacific are conducting nationwide clean ups and Programa TV Na Praia in Brazil is coordinating a day of activities to launch their anti-litter campaign.

    The Clean Up the World campaign is in its 15th year and has the support of the United Nation’s Environment Programme (UNEP). The 2007 theme ‘Our Climate, Our Actions, Our Future’ channels community action towards addressing the causes of climate change.

    Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP praised the efforts of organisations across the world that are involved in Clean Up the World.

    “Climate change and other environmental challenges impact every corner and community on the planet. Our generation is witnessing the early stirrings of extreme weather events, melting ice and other climatic manifestations, and it is truly impressive to see so many communities responding to the challenge with grassroots enthusiasm and commitment. In this context, Clean Up the World is playing a leadership role by providing practical action and this is exactly how the world will start making a difference”, he said.

    Mr. Steiner added: “This week, we are celebrating not only the 15th anniversary of Clean of the World, but we are also celebrating the Montreal Protocol which was ratified 20 years ago with the aim to eliminate the production and consumption of ozone-depleting chemicals. These two environmental endeavours show that the departure point for success must be a joint effort with participation from all realms of society: governments, private sector and civil society.”

    Details of organisations participating in Clean Up the World in 2007 can be found at www.cleanuptheworld.org

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