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Inside this Issue: Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? Biofuels: Would the CSD Choose Inertia (Again?) The Politics of Hunger and Food Aid - Part 1 Environmental Champions League: How Did Your Country Do? Climate Change Ethics: Turn Up the Volume Who Cares About Drylands and Desertification? |
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008Environmental Champions LeagueHow Did Your Country Do?Following on from Felix Dodds Column ‘Food for Thought’ in yesterdays issue, Outreach Issues will over the next few days be publishing the results of Stakeholder Forum’s Global Environmental League Table. Besides today’s premiership, following issues will reveal who is placed in the 1st – 4th divisions, as well as the Sunday League. The RULES are as follows: RANKING happens according to how a country is doing in relation to five Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). THE FIVE MEAs are the Bio-Safety Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Rotterdam Convention on the International Trade of Hazardous Chemicals, Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea SCORING was awarded according to a country’s commitment to each convention, giving: ONE POINT for signing the treaty TWO POINTS for ratifying a treaty MINUS ONE POINT for not having signed a treaty
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