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Red List not enough
Experts push for an intergovernmental biodiversity panel |
Maywa Montenegro |
04 Dec 2007 |
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| For this enviro, Christmas is shaping up pretty nicely this year. Today, as post-Kyoto discussions commence in Bali, Australia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, sweeping aside decades of Howard's curmudgeonly climate skepticism. Another unexpected gift came last month, when a group of 80 experts convened in France to mull over the future of biodiversity. Their consensus? That we need to establish a new intergovernmental panel -- akin to the IPCC -- to begin aggressiv ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics) |
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