Not-so-green France hosts conference on biodiversity
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France plays host Monday to a five-day international conference on biodiversity, but stands criticised itself for failing to live up to its self-proclaimed standards on promoting conservation, according to many ...
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Though European leaders are about to sign a new treaty, the event has been dubbed a diplomatic vanity trip and an environmental extravagance
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French government moves to ban the  country's only genetically modified (GMO) crop drew fire on  Sunday from the speaker of the country's parliament, farmers  and biotechnology industry groups.
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French President Jacques Chirac: on his way out figures among the top &#x2019;euro-saures&#x2019; who, in accordance with the laws of evolution, must give way to a new kind of leader.Comment
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Heads of state from French-speaking nations are gathering in the west African nation of Burkina Faso for a two-day summit to discuss the crisis in Ivory Coast.
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Creative yet fair and ethical fashion that embraces social and environmental values and supports development is set to draw designers from developing countries and Europe to Paris this week for an unprecedented kind of fashion event.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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Data center operators are looking for alternative ways of powering their facilities and green technologies that are cleaner are gaining new attention, according to attendees at this week's Afcom data center conference.
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Car makers at the Paris Motor Show this week competed for best green credentials, unveiling environmentally-friendly cars designed to attract consumers on grounds of cost as well as conscience.
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BERLIN: Britain&#39;s Queen Elizabeth yesterday opened a conference on climate change during a state visit to Germany during which she underlined the countries&#39; post-Second World War reconciliation, calling on both nations to &quot;learn from history and not be
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The greening of industry is creating a constellation of new careers, and they're not your everyday forestry professions.
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These pictures were taken at Chez Clement, in Paris, this evening. A good time was had by all!  The tag for photos from this conference is leweb307.
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PARIS -- Forty-five nations answered France's call yesterday for a new environmental body to slow inevitable global warming and protect the planet, perhaps with policing powers to punish violators.
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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Australia will host a conference here this week to try to win international support for a campaign to save endangered seabirds from being wiped out by fishing and pollution, the government said.
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A new report on ecological damage from greenhouse gases dominated the sidelines of a U.N. conference on global warming Saturday as delegates from nearly 200 nations assembled to prepare for the launch next year of the Kyoto Protocol.
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BERLIN, May 21 (IPS) - New scientific evidence confirms that human action,  such as carbon emissions causing global  warming, and  industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity -  and, in some  cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and  adapt at unexpected speed to new living  conditions.