Only a few weeks ago I was in Mexico to announce that this Latin American country will be the main host for World Environment Day 2009, less than 200 days before the crucial climate convention meeting in Copenhagen.
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30 October 2008: Over 600 participants representing
governments, regions and other local authorities gathered in Saint Malo,
France, from 29-30 October 2008, for the “First World Summit of Regions,
Climate Change: Regions in Action.”
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30 October 2008: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held a
meeting in New Delhi, India, with leading Indian business leaders and Rajendra
Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director-
General of TERI, to discuss the corporate initiatives undertaken by the TERI
Business Council to reduce the impact of climate change.
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29 October 2008: Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the UN
Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) told a news conference at UN
Headquarters, NY, US, that “the nexus between land degradation and climate
change is clear,” with global warming being likely to lead to more extreme
weather events, which could lead to soil erosion and loss of land cover.
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29 October 2008: On the sidelines of the 10th Conference of
Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, taking place in
Changwon, Republic of Korea, from 28 October-4 November 2008, the Ramsar
Secretariat, the Danone Group and IUCN have entered into a partnership
targeting climate change.
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29 October 2008: The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Board, at its 42nd meeting on 24-26 September 2008, in Bonn, Germany, decided
to make the draft document of “Elaboration of CDM Accreditation Requirements”
as contained annex 1 of the 26th progress report of the CDM-Accreditation
Panel, available for public comment from 29 September 2008 to 27 October 2008.
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29 October 2008: In a speech delivered at the University of
Philippines, in Manila, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon indicated that his
“most immediate concern” was that the financial crisis could “eclipse the
global effort to address climate change.” He noted that, while developing
countries face the same pressures as the US and Europe, they lack the resources
to tackle the crisis.
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28 October 2008: The Second Committee on Economic and
Financial issues, of the 63rd UN General Assembly (UNGA), considered the report
of the Secretary-General on the Implementation of the Outcome of the UN
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the UN Human
Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) (document A/63/291).
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28 October 2008: In a video message to the tenth meeting of
the Conference of the Contracting Parties of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands,
taking place in Changwon, Republic of Korea, from 28 October-4 November 2008,
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the appropriateness of the
conference’s theme, “Healthy wetlands, healthy people.”
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