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Inside this Issue: NGO-bashing and Private Sector Positioning at Crop Life Side Event Yesterday The Truth Behind the IAASTD Report The Politics of Hunger and Food Aid - Part 2 What is a Well-Prepared Society? Ensuring Partnership Success in the Water and Sanitation Sector Environmental Champions League: Division One |
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Thursday, May 8, 2008 How Did Your Country Do?Outreach Issues will over the next few days be publishing the results of Stakeholder Forum’s Global Environmental League Table. Yesterday’s issue revealed the top of the league, today we give you Division One, and following issues will reveal who is placed in the 2nd – 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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