hypa ANALYSIS
hypa is famous for it's global analysis which looks at issues relating to current events and helps us fill our web pages with stuff. hypa has access to sources of information from all over the world, and from many diverse contacts. Each week we look at an issue connected to our chosen topic of the week.
The Kyoto Summit
As governments and pressure groups of different colours meet in Japan to discuss the future of our environment, hypa can reveal which organisation rates as one of the biggest environmentally destructive bodies currently in existence.
As the United Nations considers reforming itself, it might like to consider this: the World Environment Organisation (WEO) produces more paperwork than any other single body. Last year alone it produced reports, memoranda and other documents that amounted to 187,550 tons of paper.
Amongst this waste were reports on the impact of a proposed design for a disposable toothbrush made from polythene fibres, an examination of the use of lard as an industrial lubricant and, perhaps most ironic of all, a 589 page report on how the WEO could use technology to reduce it's paper consumption. WEO rumour has it that 12,500 copies of that report were sent to governments and interested parties.