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IDB Finances Mexican Work on Climate Change / BID financiará agenda de México sobre cambio climático
Friday, November 21st, 2008From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
IDB supports climate change agenda in Mexico
Finances innovations and reforms for climate change mitigation and adaptation, along with climate action plans in over 10 Mexican states
The Inter-American Development Bank will finance the first national study on the economic impact of climate change, measures to mitigate that impact and climate change [...]
LAC Legislators to Discuss Linkages Between Climate and Financial Challenges / Legisladores de ALC abordarán doble desafío de crisis financiera y climática / Legisladores abordarão o duplo desafio das crises financeira e climática
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008From the World Bank:
Ahead of UN Climate Conference in Poznan-Poland, Senior Legislators to Address Twin Challenge of Financial and Climate Crisis
Seventy senior legislators from across the Americas will gather in Mexico City November 21-23 to examine how to overcome the twin challenges of the global financial and climate crises. The meeting is intended to help [...]
Brasil vai elaborar cenário nacional de emissões de gases de efeito estufa em 2030 / Brazil to Prepare National Scenario for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 2030
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Synopsis in English: The World Bank is funding the preparation of a national scenario for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for Brazil for the year 2030, which Brazil hopes to have ready to forward in 2009 to the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Brazilian team includes the Science and Technology [...]
Carbon Financing for Sustainable Farming / Financiación del carbono para estimular la agricultura sostenible
Thursday, November 6th, 2008From the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
Harnessing carbon financing to boost sustainable farming
Win-win-win for development, climate efforts
Some 100 experts from five continents meet today to chart the way to harnessing a large new flow of funding – carbon finance – to agricultural development and to improving the lives of poor farmers the world over.
Billions [...]
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), [...]
More LAC Nations Covered by Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Temas Note: When the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility was first officially announced by the World Bank a few months ago, only five Latin American nations (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guyana, Mexico, Panama) were to participate. Because of strong interest in the Facility, it has been decided recently to expand its developing country participants, and as [...]
ECLAC to Analyze Economic Impacts of Climate Change for 8 LAC Nations/ CEPAL analizará en 8 paises los impactos económicos que pueda provocar el cambio climático
Monday, October 27th, 2008From the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC):
Concern Grows Over Impact of Climate Change on Economies in the Region
Participants discussed the region’s role in addressing climate change and alternatives to mitigate its effects, among other issues.
The possible imposition of trade barriers on products from the region due to carbon emissions in [...]
Brazil’s CPFL Receives Award for Leadership in Socially & Environmentally Sustainable Development
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008From the International Finance Corporation (IFC):
Brazil’s CPFL Energia Receives IFC Client Leadership Award
CPFL Energia S.A., Brazil’s largest private electricity company, today received IFC’s Client Leadership Award, which recognizes the company’s efforts in bringing electricity to 6.3 million new customers and creating more than 7,000 jobs. The company is also making exemplary efforts to reduce energy [...]
Plan for Establishing Caribbean Public Health Agency Agreed
Monday, October 13th, 2008From the Caribbean Community (CARICOM):
CARICOM MINISTERS OF HEALTH AGREE ON A PLAN TO ESTABLISH CARPHA
Ministers of Health of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have endorsed a plan of action for the transition of the Regional Health Institutions into the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) by 2010. The endorsement was made at the annual Caucus of the [...]
Research Agenda Agreed on Climate Change and Health
Thursday, October 9th, 2008From the World Health Organization (WHO):
WHO agreed on a research agenda on climate change and public health
A meeting of experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Madrid agreed today to a research agenda to develop an evidence-based framework for action on the human health implications of climate change. The plan builds on a [...]
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