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Article: ANTARCTIC TREATY AGREEMENT TO MAKE POLLUTERS PAY.
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- Europe Environment
- Article date:
- June 30, 2005
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The 28th international conference on the Antarctic Treaty, staged over two weeks in Stockholm, ended on June 17 with the conclusion of an agreement to make countries or companies responsible for environmental damage pay. "The key result of the conference has been the finalising after 13 or 14 years of negotiations (...) of the Annex on Liability to the Antarctic Treaty's existing Protocol on Environmental Protection", said Tony Press, the Australian Chairman of the environmental protection committee. In order to enter into force, the Annex to the Protocol must now be ratified by the 28 member governments of the Antarctic Treaty with decision-making powers, which may take ...