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Biodiversity: German pledges 500 million euros at UN talks

Agence France-Presse:  Germany on Wednesday pledged half a billion euros (785 million dollars) to help defend threatened forests and called on others to join its effort as a UN conference on biodiversity engaged top gear. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country wanted to set down a "very clear marker" on attaining the UN's Millennium goal of braking biodiversity loss by 2010. "The Federal government, between 2009 and 2012, will earmark an additional amount of 500 million ... Read »
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