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Subscribe to this topic FeedUN Climate Agreement Inches Forward
Despite the two main green house gas emitting countries maintaining their opposing positions, the UN talks in China, in the first week of October, appear to have moved the rest of the world closer to an international agreement.
Voluntary Markets Moving Faster than UN Forest Climate Agreement
In the wake of the Copenhagen UN Climate Talks last December, and the
build up to this winter's gathering in Mexico, it is national donors,
individual governments, the private sector and NGO's that are developing
and pushing forward the forest carbon market in 2010.
Ecuador seeks compensation for not exploiting oil deposits in national park
The Ecuadorian Government plans to promote an environmental project in the Yasuni National Park which had previously been designated for oil exploitation.
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