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523.0. "Trondheim to host UN environmental conference" by TLE::SAVAGE () Fri Oct 09 1992 10:43

    From: [email protected] (Cynthia Kandolf)
    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    Subject: UN conference to Trondheim
    Date: 8 Oct 92 18:16:44 GMT
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    From _Adresseavisen_, a daily newpaper published in Trondheim,
    Wednesday 7 October 1992.  Translated by yours truly.  Correction of
    translation errors is appreciated.  
 
    Important UN Conference to Trondheim
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    (by Egil M. Opland)
 
    Trondheim has recieved a unique opportunity to be internationally known
    as an environmentally concerned city.  In May 1993, experts from 150
    countries will gather for a UN conference in Trondheim to follow up on
    the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil. 
 
    On the Norwegian side, work has been going on for several months to get
    the conference of experts here.  It was first officially stated that
    the UN had chosen Norway when the national budget was made public
    yesterday.  
 
    In Brazil, 158 nations signed the Treaty for the Protection of Earth's
    Biodiversity.  Experts and bureaucrats from thoe nations which signed
    it will be invited to this follow-up meeting.  It is expected that most
    of these countries will be represented at the conference, Adresseavisen
    was told.
 
    Karl Baadsvik, director of the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
    (NINA), and Peter Johan Schei, director of the Directorate for Natural
    Management (DN) came up with the idea for a meeting of experts.  At the
    same time they recommended that the meeting be held in Trondheim, which
    has a strong biological research and technical environment. [The
    Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) is located here, which tends to
    attract research firms. -cgk]
 
    The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), which coordinates the
    work for the Treaty, considers the conference in Trondheim very
    important.  In the course of just one week, delegates will lay the
    technical groundwork for the political continuation of the Treaty,
    which was regarded as one of the most important final documents from
    the Brazil meeting.
 
    Technical arrangements in Trondheim will be handled by DN and NINA in
    cooperation with the Center for Environment and Development at the
    University [of Trondheim, which includes NTH. -cgk].
 
    "The conference is unmistakably a feather in the cap both for Norway
    and for the research environment in Trondheim.  Many countries have
    been working hard to arrange this conference," says Karl Baadsvik,
    director of NINA.
 
    Detailed planning will now begin in full.  Among other things, a
    committee in charge of the arrangements, with delegates from several
    countries, will be named.
 
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    -Cindy Kandolf
     [email protected]
     Trondheim, Norway