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Rainforest pilot project is protecting climate and species
With more than 7.5 Million Euros, the German Ministry of Environment is supporting, via KfW Entwicklungsbank, the conservation of Harapan Rainforest, a 1,000 km2 area on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. [
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Germany and the Maldives intensify environmental cooperation
On 9 March in Berlin the President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed and Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen agreed on intensifying cooperation. [ more]
Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Bali
At the end of the Global Ministerial Environment Forum Federal Environment Minister Dr Norbert Röttgen stated: "I welcome that the UNEP Governing Council has agreed to develop concise proposals on how to organise international environment policy much more efficiently." [ more]
Important step in international climate negotiations
By the end of January 55 countries submitted their national climate protection targets to the United Nations. The list of countries has now been published by the UN Climate Secretariat. [ more]
Germany met Kyoto climate commitments
Germany met its climate protection target under the Kyoto Protocol in 2008 and remains a leader in international climate protection. [ more]
Ceremony launches the International Year of Biodiversity 2010
On 11 January 2010, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme Achim Steiner and other prominent guests launched the International Year of Biodiversity at the Berlin Museum of Natural History. [ more]
Global climate agreement remains our goal
Following the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen made the following statement: "We did not achieve what we hoped for. But we did achieve everything we could - the alternative to this would have been nothing at all." [ more]
Climate protection through conservation of mangroves
Using funds from the Environment Ministry's International Climate Initiative the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) will press ahead with mangrove conservation in Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Samoa and Tonga. [ more]
Germany and Brazil strengthen bilateral climate cooperation
On 03.12.2009 at the Federal Chancellery, Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and Under Secretary General at the Brazilian Ministry for External Relations, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on combating climate change. [ more]
Breakthrough in the fight against biopiracy
After tough international negotiations substantial progress towards an international agreement against biopiracy was achieved in Montreal, Canada on 15 November 2009. The goal of the envisaged agreement is to ensure a more equitable distribution of the economic benefits arising from the use of genetic resources. [ more]
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