French rapped over marine pollution
- From: Vol 3, Issue 3 (March 2002)
- Category: General
- Region: Europe
- Country: France
THE FRENCH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE has charged the country’s authorities with failing to honour its commitments under the 1992 Ospar convention for the protection of the northeast Atlantic marine environment.
Under the agreement, which came into effect in 1998, France and other EU states agreed to reduce the deposit of dangerous and polluting substances into the sea by 50%. A new report, based on an analysis of 90 rivers running into the Atlantic, says the volume of pollutants transported into the sea over the past ten years is equivalent to ...
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