2007 in the environment

Events

  • The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is released
  • The Baiji, a freshwater dolphin that lived in the Yangtze River in China is declared extinct. The population declined drastically as China became industrialized and made heavy use of the river for fishing, transportation, and hydroelectricity.
  • The town of Wittenoom in Western Australia is disestablished due to asbestos contamination from past mining operations.
  • Friends of the Earth run the Big Ask Campaign calling for a new climate change law in the United Kingdom and 15 other EU member states.

January

March

April

May

  • The International Whaling Commission meeting was held in Anchorage, Alaska in the United States.

July

September

November

  • The COSCO Busan oil spill occurred between San Francisco and Oakland, California in the United States.
  • The hoax Journal for Geoclimatic Studies published a fabricated global warming study entitled, "Carbon dioxide production by benthic bacteria: the death of manmade global warming theory?"
  • Business leaders of 150 global companies published the Bali Communiqué to world leaders calling for a comprehensive, legally binding United Nations framework to tackle climate change.
  • The P8 Group meet for their first P8 summit. It brings together senior leaders from some of the world's largest public pension funds to develop actions relating to global issues and particularly climate change.

December

See also

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