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U.N. rejects Australia's bid to strip rainforest of heritage status
2014-06-24 09:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United Nations has unanimously rejected an Australian proposal to revoke the heritage status of 74,000 hectares (183,000 acres) of Tasmania's rainforest and enable them to be reopened to logging. Added to the World Heritage List in 1982, the Tasmanian Wilderness 'constitutes one of the last expanses of temperate rainforest in the world', says U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, and sprawls over more than one million hectares (2.47 million acres), or a fifth of the island. At a meeting in Doha,...
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World Heritage Committee takes 10 min reject Australia's bid to strip forests of protection
2014-06-23 22:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The UNESCO World Heritage Committee today unanimously rejected a controversial proposal by the Australian government to strip 74,000 hectares of temperate rainforest from a World Heritage Site in Tasmania. In an embarrassing setback for the Australia government, it took the committee less than ten minutes to unanimously reject the proposal, according to the Guardian. The 74,000 hectares in question were a part of a so-called "peace deal" between environmentalists and loggers in Tasmania, which...
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UN rejects Australia 'feeble' bid to strip Tasmanian forest's heritage status
2014-06-23 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Unesco has unanimously rejected a feeble Australian government bid to reopen 74,000 hectares of Tasmanias world heritage area to logging. At its annual meeting in Doha, the Unesco World Heritage Committee said the Australian government had failed to provide compelling evidence that areas added to the site only last year were detracting from the overall value of the area. No committee members defended the Australian cause as the proposal was discarded in less than ten minutes. Portugals...
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France backs GE bid to buy Alstom energy unit
2014-06-22 22:20:10| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
PARIS, France - The French government Friday said it was backing General Electric's bid to buy most of Alstom's power equipment operations, giving a much needed support to the American firm in a bidding war with Japanese and German rivals.
GE Poised to Win Alstom Bid as France Said to Near Accord
2014-06-22 14:56:15| Biotech - Topix.net
General Electric Co. is moving closer to its biggest acquisition ever, a $17 billion deal for Alstom SA's energy assets, after the French company's board approved the offer.
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