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01/11/2010
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Spelman Welcomes Nagoya Agreement
Caroline Spelman has welcomed the new agreement reached in Nagoya for setting targets to protect the natural environment. The Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "These have been long and hard negotiations, but we have successfully achieved a new global plan to help protect our natural environment. We have also agreed an historic protocol which has been 18 years in the making, establishing a regime where developing countries will allow access to their genetic and natural resources in return for a share of the benefits for their use. She added: "The new agreement states we will take effective and urgent action to halt the loss of habitats and species in order to ensure that by 2020 our natural environment is resilient and can continue to provide the essential services that we would otherwise take for granted. This will secure the planet's variety of life, our well being and help eradicate poverty. We have also secured an agreement to link climate change, global poverty and biodiversity together in protecting the world's forests, which is essential if we are to achieve our aims in these areas. This was a key objective for the UK and this week I announced £100 million specifically to fund biodiversity projects in forest regions."
Company Fined After Worker Dies
A Durham company has been fined £120,000 at Grimsby Crown Court after safety failings led to the death of a man at its coal processing plant in Immingham. Hargreaves (UK) Services Ltd of Esh Winning, Durham, a major energy support services company, pleaded guilty to a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act. The company was also ordered to pay £35,000 in costs. The prosecution followed the death of Alan Noddle, who suffered fatal injuries when he was run over by a loading shovel in July 2007. Mr Noddle, 48, from Carcroft, Doncaster, worked as a maintenance fitter for Hargreaves’ sister company, Norec Ltd, and was working at the Hargreaves’ Astra Site at Immingham Docks on the day of the fatal incident. He died when he was struck by a large loading shovel being used to transfer coal from one area of the plant to another. The driver of the vehicle could not see Mr Noddle as he walked across the stockyard because the large bucket on the loading shovel blocked his view.
Study Reveals Gaelic Student Shortfall
According to a new study, up to 860 people would have to become bilingual in Gaelic each year to halt the decline of the language. The study, carried out by the Royal Society journal, found the language was in danger of becoming extinct. However researchers said that by copying Welsh initiatives it could revitalise growth. The study mapped the decline of Gaelic speakers from 250,000 100 years ago compared to about 65,000 today. The decline is believed to be caused by people switching to English to open up social and economic opportunities. Similar action was said to also be needed in Scotland.
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Caroline Spelman has welcomed the new agreement reached in Nagoya for setting targets to protect the natural environment. The Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "These have been long and hard negotiations, but we have successfully achieved a new global plan to help protect our natural environment. We have also agreed an historic protocol which has been 18 years in the making, establishing a regime where developing countries will allow access to their genetic and natural resources in return for a share of the benefits for their use. She added: "The new agreement states we will take effective and urgent action to halt the loss of habitats and species in order to ensure that by 2020 our natural environment is resilient and can continue to provide the essential services that we would otherwise take for granted. This will secure the planet's variety of life, our well being and help eradicate poverty. We have also secured an agreement to link climate change, global poverty and biodiversity together in protecting the world's forests, which is essential if we are to achieve our aims in these areas. This was a key objective for the UK and this week I announced £100 million specifically to fund biodiversity projects in forest regions."
Company Fined After Worker Dies
A Durham company has been fined £120,000 at Grimsby Crown Court after safety failings led to the death of a man at its coal processing plant in Immingham. Hargreaves (UK) Services Ltd of Esh Winning, Durham, a major energy support services company, pleaded guilty to a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act. The company was also ordered to pay £35,000 in costs. The prosecution followed the death of Alan Noddle, who suffered fatal injuries when he was run over by a loading shovel in July 2007. Mr Noddle, 48, from Carcroft, Doncaster, worked as a maintenance fitter for Hargreaves’ sister company, Norec Ltd, and was working at the Hargreaves’ Astra Site at Immingham Docks on the day of the fatal incident. He died when he was struck by a large loading shovel being used to transfer coal from one area of the plant to another. The driver of the vehicle could not see Mr Noddle as he walked across the stockyard because the large bucket on the loading shovel blocked his view.
Study Reveals Gaelic Student Shortfall
According to a new study, up to 860 people would have to become bilingual in Gaelic each year to halt the decline of the language. The study, carried out by the Royal Society journal, found the language was in danger of becoming extinct. However researchers said that by copying Welsh initiatives it could revitalise growth. The study mapped the decline of Gaelic speakers from 250,000 100 years ago compared to about 65,000 today. The decline is believed to be caused by people switching to English to open up social and economic opportunities. Similar action was said to also be needed in Scotland.
(BMcN/GK)
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