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Inside this Issue: The Forbidden Link: Rural Development, Agriculture, AND Trade The Chair’s Report — Urgency or Complacency? Will Bart Simpson Save the World? Don’t Dismiss the CSD and Its Dialogue The Degradation of Aquatic Ecosystems: The Mekong River Basin Environmental Champions League |
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Friday, May 9, 2008 How Did Your Country Do?Outreach Issues will today and Monday publish the last divisions of Stakeholder Forum’s Global Environmental League Table. Wednesday gave you the Premiership, yesterday gave you division one, and today we give you division 2 and 3: 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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