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Unesco blocks Australias proposals to open up Tasmanian rainforest to logging

2014-06-25 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: The UN has rejected a proposal from the Australian government to revoke the special protection afforded to 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian rainforest, in order to allow logging operations in the region to resume. The controversial request was unanimously rejected within just seven minutes at a meeting of the Unescos world heritage committee in Doha, as delegates from Germany, Colombia and Portugal argued against the delisting. The news agency Reuters reported that members of the Portuguese delegation...

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Environmentalists await Unesco verdict on future of protected Tasmanian forests

2014-06-16 16:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: The Unesco world heritage committee is about to rule on a proposal to have 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest delisted in order to open it up to the timber industry. It is also debating whether or not to list the Great Barrier Reef as highly endangered because of pollution. If the forests were delisted, Australia would be the first developed country to have the protected status of a natural environment reversed on economic grounds. The government has claimed that the area subjected to logging...

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Unesco commends Soco decision to halt drilling in world heritage site

2014-06-14 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has said it commends British oil and gas exploration firm Socos decision to abandon drilling plans in a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) world heritage site. Earlier this week, the firm and WWF, which had conducted a year-long campaign against its operations in the Virunga national park, released a joint statement. It stated that Soco would halt operations in the national park, commit to avoiding operations in other world heritage...

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UNESCO concerned Australia decision on dumping coal waste in Great Barrier Reef waters

2014-05-02 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: The UNs world heritage body has said it has concerns over the decision by the Australian government to allow the dredging and dumping of millions of tonnes of sludge from new coal export terminals into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. UNESCO said that the project was approved by the Abbott government despite an indication that less impacting disposal alternatives may exist. Abbot Point is a deepwater coal port located in Queensland, whose expansion was approved in 2012...

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