Following the suspension of the Conga project in 2011, at the request of the Peruvian central government, the environmental impact assessment report previously approved in 2010 was reviewed by independent experts.

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The committee recommended that the Kenyan government halt the project until an Environmental and Historical Impact Assessment report is provided to UNESCO.

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Two days earlier the Dutch environmental-assessment agency announced the results of a report it had been asked to produce on possible errors in the most recent review by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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