300 тон зараженной воды в день. До Владикостока эта вода не дойдет, а вот с Тихоокеанским побережьем Америки все не так просто. Туда идут океанские течения.http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/21/fukushima-

http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=55384

Japan: was ready for many new projects with Russia but now is hesitant and may decide to cancel

http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=55321

Japan unwilling to shake Russian ties - Asian Review - Globaltimes.cn

И напоследок, пока в отеле есть быстрая связь (дома во Владике такой не будет), немного картинок японской Нагойи. Что успела ухватить в последний день, после многодневных заседаний в комплексе Конгресса, где проходили переговоры Конвенции по Защите Биоразнообразия ( Read more... )

A new, very important environmental treaty, Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing of Genetic Resource (Nagoya ABS Protocol), is born ( Read more... )

The city of Nagoya is preparing for a typhoon -- meanwhile the last day at the meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention of Biological Diversity, held in Nagoya, is unusually quiet. Everybody is waiting what comes out of this final push behind closed doors ( Read more... )

The COP-10 Meeting in Nagoya reached an impasse, over the Protocol over Benefit Sharing, which would be second protocol to the Convention on Bioogical Diversity ( Read more... )

Environmentalists gave yesterday an embarrassing award to Canada, a Dodo award (Dodo - a bird, symbol of biodiversity loss). Canada is blocking some important parts of ASB Protocol pretaining to the rights of Indigenous Peoples which it refuses to recognize in the international law...Canadian reputation internationally is failing ( Read more... )

Some digital images of this UN environmental Convention -- hopefully it will not fail as the one in Copenhagen last year. The main document coming out of this meeting -- a new Protocol on the Access to Benefit Sharing... Still not clear whether they will have agreement on it by the end of the Convention.

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