Ecuador: President Correa Gives Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT Initiative A Positive Evaluation

Ecuador: President Correa Gives Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT Initiative A Positive Evaluation   Major Expansion Planned in 2012 For Groundbreaking Effort to Protect Western Hemisphere's Most Biodiverse Park from Oil Exploitation   Following a December 20 end-of-year evaluation meeting, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa resolved his commitment to extend the country's Yasuni-ITT Initiative by setting a new fundraising challenge of securing US$291 million in contributions annually in 2012 and...

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