Pe scurt, directorul general a mentionat 3 consecinte ale lucrarilor la Canalul Bistroe. Va urma o scurgere mai rapida a Dunarii, cu efecte secundare asupra bratului Chilia, echilibrul ecologic va fi afectat si vor fi cauzate pierderi economice pentru partea romana, dar si ucraineana. Prin interventiile internationale a fost stopata faza a doua a lucrarilor la Canalul Bistroe. Acum, institutul roman da replica Ucrainei cu ajutorul MMGA, prin propunerea unui proiect. Planul urmeaza sa fie pus in practica pe etape, in urmatorii 10 ani, si va costa 31 de milioane de euro. ?O parte din bani vor veni de la bugetul Romaniei, iar alta va fi atrasa de pe plan national si international?, ne-a declarat directorul Ştiuca.

Planul strategic de reconstructie ecologica a Deltei Dunarii urmareste sa restabileasca, sa refaca si sa mentina starea initiala specifica zonelor umede: hidrologica, biogeochimica si ecologica. La conferinta de ieri s-a mai subliniat ca Ucraina a incalcat 6 conventii internationale, doua acorduri cu Romania si un tratat bilateral. Mai mult, s-a criticat aprobarea lucrarilor de catre Cabinetul ucrainean de Ministri, care nu a prezentat studiul de impact asupra mediului. in finalul expunerii, directorul general ne-a declarat: ?Este curios ca Ucraina vrea cu orice pret acest canal, cu toate ca, din punct de vedere economic, nu se justifica, asa cum au declarat ei. Doar 4% dintre navele ucrainene trec pe la noi, ceea ce inseamna ca ne platesc anual aproximativ 80.000 de euro. Acum insa investesc milioane pentru a face economie la citeva zeci de mii?. Guvernatorul Rezervatiei Biosferei Delta Dunarii, Virgil Munteanu, sustine ca adevaratul motiv reiese chiar din prezentarea facuta de specialistii ucraineni prezenti la Palatul Natiunilor din Geneva: Canalul Bistroe reprezinta un obiectiv strategic si militar pentru Ucraina.

Participantii din statele dunarene si-au exprimat preocuparea fata de urmarile pe care le are construirea acestui canal asupra mediului inconjurator.

Comisia Internationala pentru Protectia Fluviului Dunarea a adoptat o rezolutie prin care a solicitat inca o data Ucrainei sa furnizeze tuturor statelor dunarene informatiile necesare despre proiectul Bastroe, pentru ca ICPDR sa poata evalua potentialele implicatii ale acestuia asupra prevederilor Conventiei de la Sofia din 1994 privind protectia si utilizarea durabila a fluviului Dunarea.

Monitorizare permanenta

Comisia Internationala pentru Protectia Fluviului Dunarea l-a imputernicit pe secretarul sau executiv sa continue dialogul cu autoritatile ucrainene, sa monitorizeze modul de indeplinire de catre Ucraina a angajamentelor asumate si sa prezinte un raport despre rezultatele acestei monitorizari la urmatoarea reuniune anuala a ICPDR.

Cea de-a 7-a Reuniune Anuala Ordinara a ICPDR a adoptat "Raportul Secretarului Executiv al acestei organizatii pe problema proiectului Bastroe in partea ucraineana a Deltei Dunarii?. Documentul mentioneaza implicatiile negative ale proiectului Bastroe asupra calitatii apelor din Delta Dunarii, in special in cazul inceperii de catre Ucraina a activitatilor planificate pentru realizarea celei de-a doua etape a proiectului.

Kievul nu-si tine promisiunile

Secretarul Executiv al ICPDR aminteste in continutul raportului sau promisiunea autoritatilor ucrainene ca, inainte de a trece la realizarea celei de-a doua faze a proiectului Bastroe, sa sprijine elaborarea de catre expertii internationali de mediu, cu participarea ICPDR, a unui studiu international privind impactul proiectului ucrainean asupra mediului inconjurator si implicatiile sale in plan transfrontalier. Totodata, in cadrul conferintei ministeriale a ICPDR, reprezentantii a 20 de organizatii neguvernamentale de mediu din bazinul dunarean au solicitat viitorului guvern ucrainean si Comisiei Europene sa faca tot posibilul pentru a preveni continuarea lucrarilor la Canalul Bastroe si sa repare prejudiciile deja produse mediului inconjurator prin realizarea primei faze a proiectului. (C.M.)

They added that the vast environmental changes brought about by the process will increase droughts and sandstorms over the rest of the country, and devastate many of the world’s greatest rivers, in what experts warn will be an "ecological catastrophe".

The plateau, says the academy, has a staggering 46,298 glaciers, covering almost 60,000 square miles. At an average height of 13,000 feet above sea level, they make up the largest area of ice outside the polar regions, nearly a sixth of the world’s total.

The glaciers have been receding over the past four decades, as the world has gradually warmed up, but the process has now accelerated alarmi?gly. Average temperatures in Tibet have risen by 2 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 20 years, causing the glaciers to shrink by 7 per cent a year, which means that they will halve every 10 years.

Prof Dong Guangrong, speaking for the academy – after a study analysing data from 680 weather stations scattered across the country – said that the rising temperatures would thaw out the tundra of the plateau, turning it into desert.

He added: "The melting glaciers will ultimately trigger more droughts, expand desertification and increase sand storms." The water running off the plateau is increasing soil erosion and so allowing the deserts to spread.

Sandstorms, blowing in from the degraded land, are already plaguing the country. So far this year, 13 of them have hit northern China, including Beijing. Three weeks ago one storm swept across an eighth of the vast country and even reached Korea and Japan. On the way, it dumped a mind-boggling 336,000 tons of dust on the capital, causing dangerous air pollution.

The rising temperatures are also endangering the newly built world’s highest railway, which is due to go into operation this summer. They threaten to melt the permafrost under the tracks of the £1.7bn Tibetan railway, constructed to link the area with China’s northwestern Qinghai province.

Perhaps worst of all, the melting threatens to disrupt water supplies over much of Asia. Many of the continent’s greatest rivers – including the Yangtze, the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Mekong and the Yellow River – rise on the plateau.

In China alone, 300 million people depend on water from the glaciers for their survival. Yet the plateau is drying up, threatening to escalate an already dire situation across the country. Already 400 cities are short of water; in 100 of them – including Beijing – the shortages are becoming critical.

Even hopes that the melting glaciers might provide a temporary respite, by increasing the amount of water flowing off the plateau – have been dashed. For most of the water is evaporating before it reaches the people that need it – again because of the rising temperatures brought by global warning.

Yao Tandong, head of the academy’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute, summed it up. "The full-scale glacier shrinkage in the plateau regions will eventually lead to an ecological catastrophe," he said.

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Initiativa se bucura de sprijinul financiar al Ambasadei Olandei in Romania si se deruleaza pe o perioada de sase luni. Activitatile se concentreaza pe trei specii: lup, urs si vidra – toate cele trei fiind specii periclitate si protejate pe plan global. Proiectul reprezinta primul pas in doua programe pe termen lung, unul pentru protectia carnivorelor mari – lup, urs si ras -, iar celalalt pentru protectia vidrelor.

in primele sase luni, scopul primordial este de a cerceta conflictele dintre carnivore (speciile susamintite) si oameni intamplate in ultimii trei ani pe teritoriul Transilvaniei. Prin conflicte intelegem pagubele produse in gospodarii (in cazul vidrei in elestee, pastravarii, lacuri de pescuit), turme de oi, atacuri asupra oamenilor, etc. Investigarea acestor incidente se face prin mai multe mijloace: analiza parerii si atitudinii persoanelor afectate de aceste cazuri (pagubiti, apropiati) si a organelor responsabile (directii silvice, asociatii de vanatori) prin utilizarea unor chestionare; efectuarea unor studii de caz despre posibilele cauze care au condus la aceste conflicte, despre marimea reala a pagubelor si despre eventualele mijloace de protectie care pot fi implementate pe plan local.

La sfarsitul proiectului rezultatele si datele colectate pe parcurs vor fi publicate. Scopul final este de a informa corect si obiectiv oamenii despre aceste trei specii (urs, lup, vidra) inconjurate de numeroase superstitii si temeri nefondate. in acelasi timp nu se poate neglija faptul ca uneori chiar produc pagube. De multe ori insa, aceste pagube, incidente pot fi evitate prin metode de preventie / protectie relativ simple si implementabile si pe plan local.

Prin aceasta cale am dori sa-i rugam pe toti cei care au cunostinte despre asemenea cazuri sa ne contacteze la sediul asociatiei (str. Crinului nr.22) in timpul programului (intre orele 9.00-14.00) sau la numarul de telefon 264-726.

The evidence – which is being taken seriously by national and international bodies and authorities – suggests that almost everyone is being exposed to a new form of pollution with countless sources in daily use in every home.

Two official Department of Health reports on the smog are to be presented to ministers next month, and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has recently held the first meeting of an expert group charged with developing advice to the public on the threat.

The UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) calls the electronic smog "one of the most common and fastest growing environmental influences" and stresses that it "takes seriously" concerns about the health effects. It adds that "everyone in the world" is exposed to it and that "levels will continue to increase as technology advances".

Wiring creates electrical fields, one component of the smog, even when nothing is turned on. And all electrical equipment – from TVs to toasters – give off another one, magnetic fields. The fields rapidly decrease with distance but appliances such as hair dryers and electric shavers, used close to the head, can give high exposures. Electric blankets and clock radios near to beds produce even higher doses because people are exposed to them for many hours while sleeping.

Radio frequency fields – yet another component – are emitted by microwave ovens, TV and radio transmitters, mobile phone masts and phones themselves, also used close to the head.

The WHO says that the smog could interfere with the tiny natural electrical currents that help to drive the human body. Nerves relay signals by transmitting electric impulses, for example, while the use of electrocardiograms testify to the electrical activity of the heart.

Campaigners have long been worried about exposure to fields from lines carried by electric pylons but, until recently, their concerns were dismissed, even ridiculed, by the authorities.

But last year a study by the official National Radiological Protection Board concluded that children living close to the lines are more likely to get leukaemia, and ministers are considering whether to stop any more homes being built near them. The discovery is causing a large-scale reappraisal of the hazards of the smog.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer – part of the WHO and the leading international organisation on the disease – classes the smog as a "possible human carcinogen". And Professor David Carpenter, dean of the School of Public Health at the State University of New York, told The Independent on Sunday last week that it was likely t? cause up to 30 per cent of all childhood cancers. A report by the California Health Department concludes that it is also likely to cause adult leukaemia, brain cancers and possibly breast cancer and could be responsible for a 10th of all miscarriages.

Professor Denis Henshaw, professor of human radiation effects at Bristol University, says that "a huge and substantive body of evidence indicates a range of adverse health effects". He estimates that the smog causes some 9,000 cases of depression.

Perhaps strangest of all, there is increasing evidence that the smog causes some people to become allergic to electricity, leading to nausea, pain, dizziness, depression and difficulties in sleeping and concentrating when they use electrical appliances or go near mobile phone masts. Some are so badly affected that they have to change their lifestyles.

While not yet certain how it is caused, both the WHO and the HPA accept that the condition exists, and the UN body estimates that up to three in every 100 people are affected by it.

Case History: ‘I felt I was going into meltdown’

Until a year ago, Sarah Dacre reckoned she had a "blessed life". Running her own company, and living in an expensive north London home, the high-earning divorcee described herself as "fab, fit and 40s". Then suddenly the sight in her right eye failed: she first noticed it when she was unable to read an A-Z map. Soon she was getting pains and numbness in her joints. She could not sleep and spent nights "pacing about like a caged lion". Her short-term memory failed and if she took notes to remind her, she would forget she had made them.

The symptoms got worse whenever she was exposed to electricity. She could not use a computer for more than five minutes without becoming nauseous. Even using a telephone landline gave her a buzzing in the ear and made her feel she was "going into meltdown".

Invisible "smog", created by the electricity that powers our civilisation, is giving children cancer, causing miscarriages and suicides and making some people allergic to modern life, new scientific evidence reveals.

The evidence – which is being taken seriously by national and international bodies and authorities – suggests that almost everyone is being exposed to a new form of pollution with countless sources in daily use in every home.

Two official Department of Health reports on the smog are to be presented to ministers next month, and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has recently held the first meeting of an expert group charged with developing advice to the public on the threat.

The UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) calls the electronic smog "one of the most common and fastest growing environmental influences" and stresses that it "takes seriously" concerns about the health effects. It adds that "everyone in the world" is exposed to it and that "levels will continue to increase as technology advances".

Wiring creates electrical fields, one component of the smog, even when nothing is turned on. And all electrical equipment – from TVs to toasters – give off another one, magnetic fields. The fields rapidly decrease with distance but appliances such as hair dryers and electric shavers, used close to the head, can give high exposures. Electric blankets and clock radios near to beds produce even higher doses because people are exposed to them for many hours while sleeping.

Radio frequency fields – yet another component – are emitted by microwave ovens, TV and radio transmitters, mobile phone masts and phones themselves, also used close to the head.

The WHO says that the smog could interfere with the tiny natural electrical currents that help to drive the human body. Nerves relay signals by transmitting electric impulses, for example, while the use of electrocardiograms testify to the electrical activity of the heart.

Campaigners have long been worried about exposure to fields from lines carried by electric pylons but, until recently, their concerns were dismissed,?even ridiculed, by the authorities.

But last year a study by the official National Radiological Protection Board concluded that children living close to the lines are more likely to get leukaemia, and ministers are considering whether to stop any more homes being built near them. The discovery is causing a large-scale reappraisal of the hazards of the smog.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer – part of the WHO and the leading international organisation on the disease – classes the smog as a "possible human carcinogen". And Professor David Carpenter, dean of the School of Public Health at the State University of New York, told The Independent on Sunday last week that it was likely to cause up to 30 per cent of all childhood cancers. A report by the California Health Department concludes that it is also likely to cause adult leukaemia, brain cancers and possibly breast cancer and could be responsible for a 10th of all miscarriages.

Professor Denis Henshaw, professor of human radiation effects at Bristol University, says that "a huge and substantive body of evidence indicates a range of adverse health effects". He estimates that the smog causes some 9,000 cases of depression.

Perhaps strangest of all, there is increasing evidence that the smog causes some people to become allergic to electricity, leading to nausea, pain, dizziness, depression and difficulties in sleeping and concentrating when they use electrical appliances or go near mobile phone masts. Some are so badly affected that they have to change their lifestyles.

While not yet certain how it is caused, both the WHO and the HPA accept that the condition exists, and the UN body estimates that up to three in every 100 people are affected by it.

Case History: ‘I felt I was going into meltdown’

Until a year ago, Sarah Dacre reckoned she had a "blessed life". Running her own company, and living in an expensive north London home, the high-earning divorcee described herself as "fab, fit and 40s". Then suddenly the sight in her right eye failed: she first noticed it when she was unable to read an A-Z map. Soon she was getting pains and numbness in her joints. She could not sleep and spent nights "pacing about like a caged lion". Her short-term memory failed and if she took notes to remind her, she would forget she had made them.

The symptoms got worse whenever she was exposed to electricity. She could not use a computer for more than five minutes without becoming nauseous. Even using a telephone landline gave her a buzzing in the ear and made her feel she was "going into meltdown".

4.1. Identificarea potentialelor institutii de implementare
4.2. Evaluarea posibilitatilor de lucru cu sectorul privat
4.3. Evaluarea posibilitatilor de lucru cu sectorul neguvernamental
4.5. Asigurarea implicarii institutiilor care asigura implementarea
4.4. Revizuirea structurilor organizationale existente
4.6. Pregatirea Planului de Implementare a Proiectului
4.7. Pregatirea bugetului pentru implementare si stabilirea procedurilor contabile
4.8. Asigurarea finantarii
4.9. Asigurarea integrarii eficiente a PAM in procesul de planificare statutar

¬ Municipalitatile: Municipalitatea va avea principala responsabilitate de a implementa majoritatea recomandarilor din plan. Ea este responsabila de managementul si supravegherea unei serii de probleme de mediu: managementul apelor reziduale, colectarea si depozitarea deseurilor solide, asigurarea unor rezerve de apa si mentinerea ariilor verzi. Consiliul municipal va avea un rol esential in stabilirea bugetelor, adoptarea si obtinerea fondurilor.
¬ Companiile utilitare: Acestea au un rol hotarator in implementarea proiectului. Utilitatile sunt direct responsabile de asigurarea unor servicii specifice cum sunt asigurarea apei potabile, managementul apei menajere, colectarea si depozitarea deseurilor solide.
¬ Autoritatile regionale (judetene, raionale): Acestea pot oferi potentiale fonduri pentru rezolvarea problemelor care se extind dincolo de jurisdictia unei municipalitati. De exemplu, autoritatile regionale aferente pot facilita un acord intre cateva municipalitati pentru managementul unui serviciu comun sau a unei probleme de mediu comune.
¬ Autoritatile nationale: Acestea stabilesc politicile de mediu care ofera cadrul legal pentru rezolvarea problemelor de mediu, in unele cazuri ofera asistenta tehnica si financiara.
¬ Sectorul privat: Municipalitatea poate angaja companii particulare sa indeplineasca servicii publice, ca de exemplu colectarea si managementul deseurilor solide.
¬ Organizatiile neguvernamentale: ONG-urile pot avea un rol important in implementarea unei game largi de activitati conexe protectiei mediului (conducerea programelor de educatie privind mediul, implementarea programelor de monitorizare a mediului care implica cetatenii, conducerea unor expertize de mediu instalarea si utilizarea echipamentelor de mediu, etc.)
¬ Industria: PAM va identifica cateva industrii ? atat private cat si de stat ? care vor avea responsabilitati specifice pentru reducerea nivelului poluarii.
Eforturile comunitatii de implementare vor implica o cooperare a acestor institutii. GI in colaborare cu municipalitatea poate avea un rol deosebit in identificarea institutiilor potrivite, agentiilor, organizatiilor si persoanelor care sa participe la faza de implementare.

Seeing it disappearing into the bamboo forest, Liu Bin, the 28-year-old keeper, had tears in his eyes. "Xiang Xiang is just like my child, who has grown up and will leave the family to live a life independently," said Liu, "I hate to part with Xiang Xiang but I hope it can survive on its own and will not forget me."

Born in 2001, Xiang Xiang, whose mother was ar?ificially inseminated, has spent the last three years in a 200,000-square-metre wildness training compound. With three years’ training, Xiang Xiang has learned how to build a den, forage for food and mark its territory, and it has also developed defensive skills by howling and biting just as a wild giant panda would do, said Zhang Hemin, head of the China giant panda protection centre here.

Experts from the centre performed Xiang Xiang’s last physical check-up and gave it a number of inoculations, before releasing. Xiang Xiang has been released at the height of the bamboo shoot season, making it easier for it to find food, informed Zhang. "The release of Xiang Xiang marks a significant change in ways of saving the endangered species by training the pandas to live in the wild before releasing them, which would top the agenda of China’s efforts to that effect," said Zhao Xuemin, deputy head of the State Forestry Administration.

Chinese scientists have given priority to artificial breeding and protection of the hairy creatures before releasing them to nature, Zhao said, adding that the release also marks the start of China’s efforts to carry out wildness training on other endangered species. According to Zhao, China also plans to release Chinese alligators, David deer, wild horses and red ibis, among others, into the wild after wildness training.

Acest parteneriat implica adesea o relatie contractuala intre institutia publica si o companie privata care obliga ambele parti sa ofere servicii specifice. Acest aranjament contractual presupune desemnarea responsabilitatilor si riscurilor pentru una sau mai multe dintre urmatoarele activitati:
¬ Finantarea proiectului utilizand fonduri publice si (sau) private;
¬ Proiectarea si (sau) realizarea utilitatilor;
¬ Operarea si intretinerea utilitatilor sau serviciilor.
Exista urmatoarele tipuri de relatii public-privat: servicii contractuale; utilitati publice; facilitati financiare de dezvoltare; privatizare; facilitati comerciale. Cooperarea cu sectorul privat include in sine atat avantaje cat si dezavantaje.
Sunt cinci considerente de baza pentru a lucra cu sectorul privat:
¬ Potentialul acces la o tehnologie mai avansata;
¬ Proiectare, constructie si (sau) operare cu costuri eficiente;
¬ Finantare flexibila;
¬ Delegarea responsabilitatilor si riscurilor;
¬ Costuri garantate (un parteneriat intre municipalitate si o companie particulara poate aduce anumite beneficii comunitatii prin garantarea costurilor).
Exista doua potentiale dezavantaje majore in lucrul cu sectorul privat: pierderea controlului local asupra finantarii, operarii si mentinerii utilitatilor (partenerul privat poate sa controleze metoda de realizare a serviciilor, conformarea cu standardele de tratare, nivelurile de descarcare etc.) si riscurile financiare (acest lucru este cu atat mai evident atunci cand compania particulara se confrunta cu probleme financiare sau decide sa se retraga din proiect).
Cooperarea cu sectorul privat poate oferi beneficii foarte mari dar municipalitatea trebuie sa compare atent beneficiile si riscurile. Daca se decide ca o companie privata sa implementeze o parte a PAM, trebuie sa se aleaga foarte atent aceasta companie. Va trebui sa se identifice companiile care au experienta in probleme si tehnologii similare.