What kind of present will Copenhagen give the world this Christmas?
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Europe poured €34.5 million of EU taxpayers’ money into increasing and modernizing its oversize bluefin tuna fleets over the very period it was coming to concede that excess fishing capacity was a key factor in overfishing and illegal fishing of collapsing bluefin stocks.
India's eve of the Copenhagen climate conference announcement of voluntary measures to reduce the country's carbon intensity have been welcomed by WWF-India. Prime Minister Dr Manmoham Singh said the intention was to reduce India's carbon intensity by 20-25 percent of 2005 levels by 2020.
A message for world leaders on the urgency for decisive action on climate changte is on its way to Copenhagen - in the form of The People’s Orb - a shimmering 20cm silver sphere containing a 350 gigabyte mosaic of stories, voices, images and action on climate change collected from around the world .
An unprecedented combination of climate change and increasing human pressures could have a devastating effect on coral reefs in the near shore areas of Southern Madagascar. The Tuléar reef is the third largest in the world, and one of only five large continuous reef systems in the world.
The fate of valuable marine species – including Atlantic bluefin tuna – likely will be decided at an upcoming United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) meeting next week.
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