COP-6 adopts guiding principles on alien species Delegates at the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP-6) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on 7-19 April in The Hague, The Netherlands, adopted 15 Guiding Principles for the prevention, introduction and mitigation of the impacts of...

EU MEMBERS PLEDGE TO RATIFY KYOTO PROTOCOL At a 4 March meeting of the Council of the European Union, the 15 EU Environment Ministers committed their countries to ratifying the Kyoto Protocol -- the international agreement designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 percent from 1990 levels by...