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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8603
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment

Participants at Conference on Climate Change in Milan find agreement on use of GMO trees

Brussels, 10/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The representatives of 180 countries meeting in Milan on the occasion of the 9th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Climate Change to define the rules for application of the Kyoto Protocol, managed to reach agreement on the role of genetically modified trees in the storage of greenhouse gases. These trees have the property of storing such gases during their growth thus delaying the dispersal into the atmosphere of the gases, and hence thus...

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