CONCENTRATION: Speakers at a conference yesterday said that while many people work very hard to help the environment, their scattered efforts make progress slow

Loa Iok-sin
STAFF REPORTER

Saturday, Jun 06, 2009, Page 4

Decentralization, localization, ethics and more public participation may be solutions to challenges that the environmental campaign is facing worldwide, speakers said at a conference in Taipei yesterday.

“Previously, mistakes and failures by human societies were limited - in both space and time - in the damage they could achieve,” said Brendan Mackey, chairman of Earth Charter Initiative’s (ECI) International Education Advisory Committee.

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