Rio + 14 : Rio plus fourteen

The objective of the conference was to win agreement among the nations of the world to begin negotiations of targets and responsibilities for a second commitment period under the Kyoto protocol. [...] Spotted owl numbers continue to plummet and the BC provincial government announced its plan in April 2006 to abandon the owl in the wild, opting instead to bring it in for captive breeding out of the limelight of the 2010 Olympics. [...] The Minister of the Environment is now proposing, on the advice of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, to not add five populations of Beluga Whale (Ungava Bay, Cumberland Sound, Eastern Hudson Bay, Eastern High Arctic/Baffin Bay and Western Hudson Bay), the Porbeagle Shark, and the Lower Fraser River and Middle Fraser River populations of White Sturgeon to Schedule 1 of SARA. [...] He distributed the document and it ended up on the website of the lawn-care company, the Weedman as verification that the Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has approved the pesticide. [...] The pressure to continue to produce and sell fossil fuels to the U. S. is a threat to both the Canadian and the global environment.