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	Air & Climate Newsletter October 09, 2008

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Climate Change: Latin America is part of the solution
With the effects of climate change already being felt across Latin America and the Caribbean, countries in the region working together with the World Bank have become part of the solution in fighting climate change while fostering economic growth, Pamela Cox, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, said at the EU-Latin American Forum organized by the Government of France. She shared the frustration of many of the region’s leaders about the present financial turmoil, however, she emphasized that the region is better prepared to confront it due to diversified trade relations, ...

Nature-based enterprises can help rural poor adapt to environmental threats
Expanding nature-based enterprises can increase income for the world’s rural poor. This approach, as outlined in the latest World Resources Report 2008, can also develop the rural poor’s resilience to social and environmental threats such as climate change. Three-quarters of the 2.6 billion people who live on less that US$2 a day are dependent upon local natural resources for their livelihoods. Threats such as climate change and ecosystem degradation are beginning to strain those livelihoods, and it will be necessary to shape development strategies that build resilience against such threats and ...

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Children artists join forces with the UN to combat climate change
Young artists from around the world are lending their support to global efforts to combat climate change through Paint for the Planet, an exhibit and ...
European auto industry calls on EU to help sustain changeover to low-emission car fleet
The European automobile manufacturers are deeply concerned about the evolving financial crisis and the consequent drop in consumer confidence and economic ...
MEPs vote to equip power plants to store CO2 underground
The European Parliament`s Environment Committee wants all larger power stations built from 2015 onwards to be equipped with the new carbon capture and ...
Ozone controls failing to protect human health and the environment
Existing controls are failing to reduce the air pollutant ground level ozone to a level that protects human health and the environment, and climate change ...
European Commission launches public consultation on monitoring of aviation emissions
The European Commission has launched an online public consultation on guidelines for the monitoring, reporting and verification of CO2 emissions from ...
Stern launches climate research institute
A new research institute to investigate how businesses can help the country move to a low carbon economy was recently launched by Lord Stern, ...
Department of Energy and Climate Change established in the UK
Ed Miliband, the new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, welcomed the creation of a new department to tackle the twin challenges of energy ...
Early abatement more cost effective according to new climate model
Global warming potential (GWP) is used to measure the relative effect on the climate of a tonne of a greenhouse gas, such as methane, relative to the ...

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