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International report: Iraq the last country interested in the environment
Date: Monday 02/27/2012 10:34
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development of a global report Iraq at the end of the States concerned with environmental performance in 2012, is considered by parliamentary committees specialized second nature in the absence of care for this area by the state, accusing the Ministry of Environment that it is not effective in their work, but warned of going to canceled and incorporated into the Ministry of Health.
And produced the index by researchers at the universities of Yale and Columbia in the United States, in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, and ranked 132 countries, across 10 categories including politics, the environment, including air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity and forest management, fisheries management.
Based to data from the World Bank and the United Nations, and other institutions, aims the cursor to highlight the achievements of States in the field of environment, as well as shortcomings and policy guidance for this.
said Project Manager Yale supervising the Environmental Performance Index, Angel Hsu: It's around the world has increased access to the standards of drinking water and sanitation in the past 10 years, but fell in other areas, including mitigation of climate change.
and the emissions of gas has recorded one of the factors behind the rank Kazakhstan recent of 129 in the index this year.
It said Hsu "for Kazakhstan , was performed lower on climate change (and quality) air, and this is due to the fact that it is highly dependent on coal. " According to Hsu, the "45% of the carbon dioxide emissions come from power plants in the country's coal-fired, and what I found interesting is that it has very little government policies actively to expand the energy in the electricity sector."
diversion of rivers and other problems of water management Politically charged issues facing the region as a whole withdrawing Kazakhstan also to the bottom of the list.
comes Turkmenistan, from second to last on the index, where the struggles strongly with the emissions, and agricultural drainage water, and waste management.
and ranked number 106, comes Russia, 2012, warning place of danger, but not at the bottom.
However, says Hsu said that during 10 years of data, comes Russia late in the past between the countries surveyed for environmental progress.
scored Moscow, she says, "going in the wrong direction", and in the lower part very of this year's list comes Iraq, are arranged says about Hsu, "it is understandable with environmental concerns, who beat him the need to build a government."
and Baghdad will have to face considerable environmental degradation, and issues of water management, air pollution is not reduced their standards of performance but it is in retreat.
and index 2012, the best performance for Switzerland, Latvia, Norway, Luxembourg, Costa Rica.
came the UK in a ranking of 9, and the United States ranked 49, in came in ranked 116.
For its part, was not surprised by the Committee on Environment and Health in the House of Representatives, the UN report, and carried the citizen and the government responsible for protecting the environment, warning causing the Ministry of Environment Health and sowed him some at the moment.
A member of the Committee Habib Terminal in a telephone conversation with (range) yesterday: "There are no standards for the environment in Iraq, The work of random, without a law to Masati environment, health and development of standards and a clear global fit with the developments in Iraq from the changes to the standards. "
He continued, "The environment in Iraq bad are not identical with what is found in other countries not in terms of the culture of the citizen, who has become far from it , considering it as something secondary, as is the case for the State that are no longer respected, but there was a tendency to abolish the Ministry of Environment and integrated health, it is very dangerous to the lack of a government body overseeing this area. "
However, the terminal said: "Despite the existence of the ministry, but did not achieve anything, "calling to be involved in the Iraq environment is equal to what is found in neighboring countries, to say the least."
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