Fossil of the Day Award goes to US, Australia and Serbia

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The Climate Action Network (CAN) ranked Serbia third in its Fossil of the Day Award for November 9 because of big polluters in the country.

“The US ranks first in the Fossil of the Day Award for failing to take basic steps to halt fossil fuel production, Australia comes in second place for a diabolic strategy ahead of Transport Day andSerbia comes in third place for giving grace to big polluters,” a press release said.

“The Serbian Government has adopted amendments to the law on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control, in favour of large scale polluters. The National Assembly Committee for the Environment rubber stamped these amendments giving coal fired power stations free reign to continue business as usual without the necessary environmental permits for three more years with support from Members of the Serbian National Assembly,” the press release said.

The Fossil of the Day awards were first presented at the climate talks in 1999, in Bonn, initiated by the German NGO Forum. During United Nations climate change negotiations (www.unfccc.int), members of the Climate Action Network (CAN), vote for countries judged to have done their ‘best’ to block progress in the negotiations in the last days of talks.