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Thursday, October 1st, 2009From the International Energy Agency (IEA): IEA proposes approaches to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the key sectors, industry and power “In the global fight against climate change, the industry and power sectors both play a key role,” said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today in Paris. “Industry is one […]
UNEP/CARICOM: Drastic Climate Change Consequences for Insular Caribbean / PNUMA/CARICOM: drásticas consecuencias por cambio climático en el Caribe Insular
Saturday, December 27th, 2008Although this report (English only) was finished in October, it was formally unveiled at the global climate change talks in Poland in November, but did not get much media play because of all the other actions, initiatives, reports and declarations made in Poznan at the same time. But it deserves much more attention and hopefully […]
Legislators from the Americas to Meet on Climate Change
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008From the World Bank: CLIMATE CHANGE: LEGISLATORS FROM THE AMERICAS TO MEET IN MEXICO Organized by the Mexican Congress and GLOBE, with the support of the WB and COM+ Mexico will host the first Forum of the Americas of the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) about climate change, to be held on […]
UNDP Launches Unique Carbon Facility
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has jumped into the growing carbon finance market with its own offering — carbon credits with a human development twist, as it were. UNDP says that the trouble with the current carbon market is that it tends to fund projects in only a handful of countries and with little […]
The Carbon Market 2007, Worldwide and in LAC
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007At this year’s Carbon Expo, the World Bank’s Carbon Finance Unit released its latest annual report on the state of, and trends in, the global carbon finance market. A PDF of the report in English (so far, copies in other languages are not being offered) can be downloaded at this link. The accompanying press release […]
IDB Board Approves Climate Change Initiative
Friday, March 9th, 2007Note: for background on the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative (SECCI), see our November post. The draft working papers outlining the strategy can be downloaded via the following links: Ch I – The Renewable Energy Ch II -Opportunities Constraints Ch III – Barriers and Good Practices to Increase Clean Energy Ch IV – Carbon […]