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Loading ...Keeping the Environmental Policy Agenda Funded in Mexico / Mantener financiado el programa de política ambiental de México
Friday, December 19th, 2008From the World Bank:
US$401 Million for Environmental Sustainability
The World Bank (WB) Executive Board of Directors approved today a US$401 million loan to the Mexican government for the Environmental Sustainability Development Policy Project to compensate for a tight public sector budget during this trimester.
This financing is in addition to the US$300.75 million loan approved last October […]
A New Strategic Framework on Forests and Climate Change / Un nuevo marco estratégico sobre bosques y cambio climático
Thursday, December 11th, 2008From the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
Forestry takes on the climate change challenge
Global organizations team up to ensure contribution of forests
To ensure that sustainably managed forests play a key role in mitigating the negative effects of climate change, a new strategic framework is being launched jointly by 14 international organizations* known as the Collaborative […]
Mexico Uses Environmental Service Payments to Protect Millions of Hectares
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Synopsis in English: Since 2003 Mexico has put 3.22 billion pesos into environmental services payments (pago por servicios ambientales – PSA). What is a PSA, you might ask. PSA is an environmental policy concept that is quite the rage in recent years, pushed by such institutions as the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), […]
Film Contest on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008World Bank’s Video Call for Submissions
For more details about the contest, click here.
From the World Bank:
Vulnerability Exposed: Social Dimensions of Climate Change
Micro-documentary Film Contest
World Bank’s Social Development Department announced today the launch of a world-wide documentary competition that will highlight the social aspects of climate change as experienced and/or observed by the film-maker(s).
Caroline Kende-Robb, Acting […]