Sustainable development ““ protection of forests, 1997

Submitted by: Environment Permanent Working Party  NCW in Conference assembled, aware of the increasing destruction of the World’s natural forests due mainly to the demand for wood and wood products, aware also that this destruction means the loss of...

Agenda 21, 1997

Submitted by: ICW Committee of GB NCW in Conference assembled (i) recalling the Agenda 21 Action Plan on environment and development issues, drawn up at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, and bearing in mind subsequent developments in New York at the...

Climate change (as amended), 2001

Submitted by: Management Committee The National Council of Women: aware that much scientific evidence has shown that climate change could be a serious problem facing humanity, calls upon Her Majesty’s Government to work through the United Nations to construct a...

Food miles and farmers’ markets, 2002

Submitted by: Foreign Affairs Committee  The National Council of Women, concerned at the effect upon the environment of the international transportation of foodstuffs and also that local supermarkets stock little locally grown food, calls upon Her Majesty’s...

Global warming, 2005

Submitted by: Consumer Affairs and Science and Technology Policy Committee  Concerned at the threat of problems arising from global warming, the National Council of Women urges HM Government to identify the causes of global warming and to:     (a)...