Despite some success, like acid rain and ozone protection, environmental issues continue to afflict us.

FORBES: Environmental Regulations: The New Frontier

President Obama and President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon met today and discussed a wide range of multilateral and regional issues, including security, environmental protection and the economy.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

It has to become more open and transparent. (At Mexico's insistence, its press officers have been gagged since May 1st.) It is increasingly asked to adjudicate on sensitive issues such as food safety and environmental protection that have become the stuff of trade disputes in a globalising economy.

ECONOMIST: Free trade in peril

They are fighting a new kind of trade dispute about sensitive policy issues, such as food safety and environmental protection, that were once exclusively domestic.

ECONOMIST: At daggers drawn

It's time to reinvigorate our talks that bring together Israelis, Arabs, and the international community to address regional issues, such as water resources and environmental protection and to clear the way to more trade between Israel and Arab nations.

CNN: AllPolitics - Clinton-Netanyahu Transcript

As a result, environmental issues were debated in the Senate for the first time, laying the foundation for the US Environmental Protection Agency.

UNESCO: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

The Monywa mine has now become a national cause, encompassing issues that will be central to Burma's post-military development - land rights, environmental protection, freedom to protest, and balancing the interests of big investors with those of ordinary Burmese citizens.

BBC: Spirit of defiance at Burma's Monywa mine

The BBC's Jonathan Head, who recently visited the Monywa mine, says it has now become a national cause, encompassing issues that will be central to Burma's post-military development - land rights, environmental protection, freedom to protest, and balancing the interests of big investors with those of ordinary Burmese citizens.

BBC: Burma courts charge protesters over copper mine protest