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forest carbon markets media document filetype: pdf

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    UNEP: Opportunities and roles for financial institutions in forest carbon markets
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Rio Earth summit: theatrics, but no big agreements | Nation & World | The Seattle Times - 0 views

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Rio+20 Hillary Clinton engergy greenhouse gas emissions

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  • Proposals set out at the beginning, such as providing universal energy access and doubling renewables by 2030, were left on the cutting-room floor.
  • Conservation International Vice President Carlos Manuel Rodríguez said he was encouraged that Scandinavian leaders pledged support for systems that would place an economic value on clean waterways, intact forests and other important ecosystems.
  • Grenada announced its transport and electricity sectors will use only clean-energy sources by 2030; Unilever promised to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2020.
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  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed delegates Friday, in Obama's place. She spoke of forging partnerships that would harness "the power of the market" rather than relying solely on governmental action. "It should be said of Rio that people left here thinking, as the late Steve Jobs put it, not just big, but different."
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Science must guide us towards a more sustainable future - SciDev.Net - 0 views

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  • As economists in these countries struggle to handle vast deficits, they need reminding that the easy credit which, in part, led to the debt crisis, has fuelled a rapacious consumerism that has exacerbated the environmental crisis.
  • strengthening science advisory mechanisms and local governance.
  • for example, by establishing effective technology transfer mechanisms to get novel solutions to the marketplace where they can be disseminated, and by taking measures to fill the gap if the market fails.
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OECD launches 'green economy' consultation with developing countries - SciDev.Net - 0 views

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OECD Rio+20 green economy developing countries subsidies

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  • Turok pointed out that the mechanisms proposed for achieving the green economy — including markets and pricing, government subsidies and regulation, government investment, capacity building, and stakeholder partnerships and collaboration — contradicted each other.
  • "If African countries don't [value and deploy their natural resources] they will have more foreigners grabbing their assets."
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  • Both Urama and Tomasi said that the green economy's nebulous definition could be advantageous, because it would enable nations to define it for themselves and to plan how to achieve it according to their specific circumstances.
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