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Linkages Between Trade and Climate Change / Vinculos entre el comercio y el cambio climático
Friday, June 26th, 2009From the World Trade Organization (WTO):
WTO and UNEP launch a report explaining for the first time the connections between trade and climate change
The world cannot continue with “business as usual” and there is a profound need for a successful conclusion to the current negotiations on both climate change and trade opening.
The WTO/UNEP report on “Trade [...]
Trends in Clean Energy Investment
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009From the UN Environment Programme (UNEP):
Economic Crisis Hits EU and US Clean Energy As Emerging Economy Investments Rise 27% to $36 billion
However Renewables Draw More Investment than Fossil-Fueled Energy Technologies in ‘08
Geothermal Sees Fastest Growth – Wind Power Tops Overall Investment, Solar Posts Largest Gains
$155 billion was invested in 2008 in clean energy companies and [...]
Challenges to Sustainable Agriculture in LAC
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009I am in New York attending the Seventh Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-17). This Session is focused on the thematic cluster of agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa. As is the case with the opening day of most such international fora, today all too many opening [...]
FONTAGRO to Fund IDB Studies on Climate Change Impact on Agriculture
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
FONTAGRO extends agreement with IDB
The Bank will manage the Fund until 2011 and finance climate change impact studies
The Inter-American Development Bank and the Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (FONTAGRO, for its initials in Spanish) have extended until 2011 their agreement whereby the IDB will continue to manage the Fund, [...]
US & Mexico Increase Cooperation on Climate Change & Clean Energy
Thursday, April 16th, 2009From the White House:
U.S.-MEXICO ANNOUNCE BILATERAL FRAMEWORK ON CLEAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
President Obama and President Calderon today announced plans to strengthen and deepen bilateral cooperation by establishing the US-Mexico Bilateral Framework on Clean Energy and Climate Change. During their first conversation in January 2009, then President-elect Obama and President Calderon discussed the need [...]
Argentina Preparing REDD Strategy
Thursday, April 16th, 2009The Director for Climate Change of Argentina’s Environment & Sustainable Development Secretariat (SAyDS) told a workshop of 100+ energy, economic and environment specialists and representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) today that SAyDS is preparing a national strategy to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions through a reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) program, [...]
FAO: Agriculture Should be in New Climate Agreement / El nuevo acuerdo sobre el cambio climático debe incluir la agricultura
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009From the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
Climate change talks should include farmers
Agriculture in developing countries could play crucial role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions
FAO has urged policy makers to include agriculture in negotiations for a new climate change treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol.
“Agricultural land is able to store and sequester carbon. Farmers [...]
Climate Change as Employment Opportunity for the Caribbean
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009From the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat:
CLIMATE CHANGE AS A GENERATOR OF EMPLOYMENT IN KEY ECONOMIC SECTORS OF THE CARIBBEAN
As the international community continues to give significant attention to the global phenomenon, Climate Change, Mr. Garfield Barnwell, Director of Sustainable Development at the CARICOM Secretariat posited some insights into how the Caribbean Region could transform this [...]
Japan Gives $5 mil. to IDB’s SECCI / Japón contribuye US$5 millones al SECCI del BID
Monday, March 30th, 2009From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
Japan to Contribute $5 Million to IDB’s Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Fund
IDB and two Japanese development agencies planning separate agreements
The Japanese government will contribute $5 million to a fund managed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) that promotes investments in economically and environmentally sound energy options.
Japan will make the [...]
Grant Competition Launched for Innovative Climate Adaptation Solutions
Monday, March 23rd, 2009From the World Bank:
Development Marketplace Grant Competition Launched for Innovative Climate Adaptation Solutions
The 2009 Global Development Marketplace (DM2009) today launched its annual global search for innovative local projects and project ideas, with the focus this year on how to help poor and vulnerable communities disproportionately affected by current and predicted climate threats. Innovating organizations from [...]