One Leap Backwards for Biodiversity, One Giant Step Forward for Industry
Biodiversity loses at UN convention on biodiversity

By Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle; photos by Langelle

[Note: IPOs stand for Indigenous Peoples Organizations]

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emerged, along with its cousin
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), out of the Rio Earth
Summit in 1992. Its mission is ostensibly to recommend solutions to the
escalating biodiversity crisis, which is manifesting in the extinctions of
hundreds of species every day and which threatens the existence of entire races
of people.

The CBD was thought to be one of the more approachable UN bodies-where

Date: 5-May-2008
Australian taxpayers will give BHP Billiton an estimated $117 million in diesel fuel subsidies during the four-year
expansion of the company’s Olympic Dam mine, according to figures
released today by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

“The Fuel Tax Credits scheme, which cost taxpayers $4.9 billion in the 2006-07 financial year, will allow BHP
Billiton to claim an average of $29 million a year in diesel rebates
for the four years of construction at Olympic Dam,” said ACF Executive
Director Don Henry.

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