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Mercury Policy Project
Internationally, Michael often represents the Ban Mercury Work Group, a coalition of 28 NGOs from around the world on global ... successfully advocated for the adoption of a strong European Union Mercury Strategy which includes an export ban on mercury and closing down the world’s largest mine by 2011, storing surplus mercury ...
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Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances | US EPA
House Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials on the export and storage of commodity-grade mercury and pending legislation, HR. 1534, the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2007. EPA is committed to finding ...
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Health Care Without Harm - Home
The EU has finally agreed to ban the export of a range of mercury-based products. This is good news. Unfortunately, the export ban does not cover mercury thermometers or sphygmos - ... EU Parliament committee stays strong on mercury export ban: The EU parliament ENVI committee supported proposals to include mercury compounds and products in the mercury export ban. If later in the process ...
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Tropical timber import export Africa Asia volume Congo Ghana Guinea Zimbabwe China Zaire France
East Asia became, for a short while, the principal export destination. The Northern EU and the USA are prominent as export destinations. India appears to dominate the market for West Africa ... Asia. Ghana subsequently prohibited all logs exports. However, it now seems likely that that log export ban will be lifted.
www.globaltimber.org.uk

Tropical timber import export Africa Asia volume Congo India Nigeria
Africa Asia volume Congo India Nigeria Indochina Imports of logs from Burma declared ... displaced Thailand as the principal market for Cambodian timber exports after the log export ban of 1995. Such has been Chinese importers' lack of concern for the ... exports, the USA is now a major potential market for Vietnam's export-oriented timber sector. Much of the wood raw material is imported - some ...
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Papua New Guinea
Raw Log Export Ban: PNG remains one of the few countries in the world today that continues to allow the export of raw logs. With the myriad of ... there is considerable internal struggle against this destruction, is sufficient grounds for encouraging a log export ban, if not total trade sanctions, to "encourage" the government of PNG to address its internal ...
www.rainforestinfo.org.au

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. Chapter 3 SPECIES DISAPPEARING climate ecosystem global economy carbon emissions dust storm Dust Bowl overgrazing oceanic fisheries forests deforestation Brazil China Amazon Amazonian rainforest land degrad
Worldwatch Paper 128 (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, March 1996), p. 159. 79. Cat Lazaroff, "Caviar Export Ban Could Save Caspian Sea Sturgeon," Environment News Service, 13 June 2001. 80. Ashley Mattoon, "Deciphering ...
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EJF: TESCO TO BAN UZBEK COTTON IN RESPONSE TO CHILD LABOUR ABUSES
Tesco's breakthrough decision following ongoing discussions with the campaigning group to place a ban on all cotton sourced from Uzbekistan for its clothing range, homeware and corporate purchases. The ... that funds President Karimov‟s government, which receives around £500 million annually in export revenues from the crop. Europe is a major buyer of Uzbek cotton. After several meetings ...
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Request to have US import ban ...
We can not detect any rational reasons for such a general ban. * The Ban has no Ecological Foundation as it has been imposed on all ... from export and on the other hand denies other countries to profit in the same way from their local resources. * The Ban is not ...
highnorth.no

"Woefully Inadequate" U.N. Actions to Ban Landmines
"Woefully Inadequate" U.N. Actions to Ban Landmines Estimated 26,000 people, mostly innocent civilians, killed or injured ... after the introduction of an international voluntary moratorium on the export of landmines, there are still many more mines being laid ... to the ICRC 35 governments have backed an outright ban on anti-personnel mines, of which 16 have unilaterally banned ...
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