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by Green Horizon
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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In February, Hungarian Environment Minister Gabor Fodor accused neighbouring Austria of failure to deal with river pollution
emanating from a leather factory situated on a river that flows through both countries.
Fodor made the allegations after visiting the Raba River (the Raab in Austria) at Szentgotthard, a Hungarian town near the Austrian
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by Green Horizon
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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Poland’s newprimeminister,DonaldTusk,
travelled toMoscow in February to argue for
a land-route alternative to Russia’s proposed
Nord Stream offshore gas pipeline, a 1,200-
kilometre direct seabed link from Russia to
Germany via the Baltic Sea. |
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by Green Horizon
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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Russia intends to establish a state caviar monopoly and crack down even harder on poachers
to save the sturgeon population fromextinction, a Russian state official revealed in January.
Caviar, produced from the sturgeon’s delicate eggs, commands such high prices on the
international market that poaching threatens to kill off the ‘tsar fish’ for good. State control
over illegal harvesting has weakened considerably since the break-up of the Soviet
Union, while pollution is also major factor in the drastic decline of the sturgeon population. |
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by Green Horizon
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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On March 17, Hungary’s government quickly and unanimously
adopted a national climate change strategy to assist the
country in meeting obligations under proposed EU legislation
tabled in January, one of which is to slash emissions by 18 percent
(from 1990 levels) by the year 2020. Strategy financing will derive
from sales of Kyoto carbon credits and funds from the Hungarian
government’s environment and energy operational programme,
ENDS reported in mid-February. Environment Minister
Gabor Fodor stressed that energy consumption must be “separated”
from economic growth. |
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by Green Horizon
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
In January, Friends of the Earth Europe (FOEE) and BirdLife International
obtained a leaked report from the European Commission (EC)
concerning the EU’s proposal to establish a mandatory target of 10 percent
for the use of biofuels in transport.
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