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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Addresses Climate Change and Business Conference

10 August 2010: Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, addressed, via video link, partnered with facebook advertising agency the sixth Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference, which convened in Sydney, Australia, from 10-12 August 2010.

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UN-REDD Recounts Recent Activities Related to Governance

10 August 2010: In its latest media release, the UN-REDD Programme highlights several recent governance-related activities, describing the Programme's engagement of partners on governance issues and REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks) at conferences around the world.

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Greening the Blue Launches Resources Tab

10 August 2010: UN's Greening the Blue launched a resources section on its website that includes background information needed to move a UN organization towards greater sustainability.

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UN Secretary-General Launches Global Sustainability Panel

9 August 2010: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched a new High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability tasked with finding ways to lift people out of poverty while tackling climate change and ensuring environmentally-friendly economic development.

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UNIDO Organizes Workshop on Development of CCS Roadmap

August 2010: The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has organized a workshop in the framework of the development of a Global Technology Roadmap for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Industry.

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UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Initiative Releases 2009 Report

August 2010: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI), a global UN-led programme that supports country-led efforts to mainstream poverty-environment linkages into national development planning, has released its 2009 Annual Progress Report.

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UNIDO's "Making It" Magazine Focuses on Policy Issues

August 2010: The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has published the latest issue of its magazine "Making It: Industry for Development" on the theme “The Policy Choice.” With this theme, the magazine aims to highlight the notion that the real question about industrial policy is how it should be practiced, not whether it should be practiced.

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IFPRI Releases Dataset on Adaptation in South Africa

August 2010: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has released a dataset of household surveys from the Limpopo Basin in South Africa from 2005.

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UNICEF Report Focuses on Climate Impacts on Children in Kenya

August 2010: The UK Committee for UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and UNICEF Kenya have released a report titled "Climate Change in Kenya: Focus on Children." 

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UNEP Provides Update on Billion Tree Campaign

29 July 2010: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has reported that participants from seven additional countries have joined its Billion Tree Campaign, bringing the total number of countries represented to 185.

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