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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10220
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/biodiversity

After fiasco of 2010, EU must succeed in halting loss of biodiversity by 2020 - This is strict minimum, says Parliament

Brussels, 22/09/2010 (Agence Europe) - In this year 2010, celebrated by the EU as the International Year of Biodiversity, and just a few weeks ahead of the World Summit of Nagoya , the European Parliament has expressed its regrets at the fact that the EU has failed in its objective of halting the decline in biodiversity by December 2010. Describing this failure as ethically, environmentally and economically unacceptable, the MEPs voted with their rapporteur, Esther de Lange (EPP,...

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