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« Check Out NJ`s Sustainability Map | Main | RRI at UN's COP15 climate change talks in Copenhagen » France Softens on SoilThe EU`s Sixth Environment Programme, running through 2012, has 4 main priorities: climate change, biodiversity, health, and resource use, and 7 thematic strategies to address them: Soil quality; Air quality; the Marine environment; the Sustainable use of resources; Waste prevention and recycling; Pesticides; and the Urban environment. France, a Green Plan nation, recently announced that it will rejoin discussions on the EU Directive on Soil, first issued in 2006. The overall objective is the protection and sustainable use of soil, based on the following guiding principles: preventing further degradation of soil and preserving its functions, by use and management patterns; reducing sources of emissions that soil receives as a sink; and restoring degraded soil to a level that enables at least its current or intended use. Posted on November 3, 2009 5:03 PM | Permalink TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: |
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