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Deadlock in Nagoya talks on biodiversity
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 24th, 2010
AFP: UN talks aimed at brokering a deal to protect the world's diminishing natural resources have made little progress, green groups said ahead of the summit's crucial second phase starting Monday. The 12 days of negotiations in the central Japanese city of Nagoya are aimed at securing agreement on how to stop the rapid loss of the world's plant and animal species, as well as their habitats. However, after the first week, environment groups said the conference was becoming bogged ...
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Russian environmentalists protest lakeside factory
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 24th, 2010
AFP: Around 200 activists gathered Sunday in the centre of the Russian city of Saint Petersburg to protest the impact on the environment of a series of government projects. Among the schemes at the centre of the protest organised by Greenpeace was a plan to reopen a cellulose factory on the shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia as well as a stalled project to build a highway through a forest near Moscow. The cellulose factory had closed in October 2008 but Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ...
Deadlock in Nagoya talks on biodiversity
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 24th, 2010
AFP: UN talks aimed at brokering a deal to protect the world's diminishing natural resources have made little progress, green groups said ahead of the summit's crucial second phase starting Monday.
The 12 days of negotiations in the central Japanese city of Nagoya are aimed at securing agreement on how to stop the rapid loss of the world's plant and animal species, as well as their habitats.
However, after the first week, environment groups said the conference was becoming bogged down in the same...
Russian environmentalists protest lakeside factory
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 24th, 2010
AFP: Around 200 activists gathered Sunday in the centre of the Russian city of Saint Petersburg to protest the impact on the environment of a series of government projects.
Among the schemes at the centre of the protest organised by Greenpeace was a plan to reopen a cellulose factory on the shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia as well as a stalled project to build a highway through a forest near Moscow.
The cellulose factory had closed in October 2008 but Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved its reopening...