EASTERN EUROPE ENVIRONMENT
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has helped broker a deal with seven Balkans countries involving them reducing the environmental damage caused by their mining industries. Welcoming the agreement, UNEP highlighted the potential problems caused by mining for zinc, cadmium, copper, bauxite, silver and gold in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, and (effectively independent) Kosovo. All their governments, along with Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania signed up to a detailed plan, agreed at a conference, ...
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