Biodiversity
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Biodiversity
Brussels wants to save the animals
4 May 2011PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
10 December 2009El Mundo Madrid
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Biodiversity
Copenhagen treaty may endanger rainforests
26 October 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
Biodiversity
Copenhagen treaty may endanger rainforests
26 October 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
Ireland
The People vs Shell
8 September 2009Village Dublin -
Biodiversity
European nature needs nurture
12 May 20097Le Monde Paris
Changing our energy system is the key to curbing CO2 emissions and global warming. In the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15), the European Union has announced plans to generate 20% of its energy using renewable sources. 
Shell’s Corrib project, piping gas from the Irish Atlantic to the remote area of Erris, Co. Mayo, has been controversial from the outset, with the Dutch giant suspected of flouting health and safety regulations where the proposed pipeline makes landfall. Michael McCaughan reports from a recent public hearing that pitted the community and activists against Shell experts. 
The success of E.U. plans to arrest biodiversity erosion by 2010 looks compromised, according to the European Commission.