November 2008: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and
other US governors are co-hosting the Governors’ Global Climate Summit, which
will convene in Los Angeles, California, US, from 18-19 November 2008. In
addition to government and sub-national “climate leaders” from, inter alia,
China, India, the US, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, participants will include
representatives from non-governmental organizations, academia and the private
sector.
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11 November 2008: In his monthly press conference, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon indicated that the global financial crisis continues to be a priority, and noted that it presents an opportunity to address climate change
since “green growth can create millions of jobs” at a time of economic hardship.
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The fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) and the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) are scheduled to take place from 29 March to 8 April 2009, in Bonn, Germany.
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10 November 2008: The UN World Tourism Organization’s
(UNWTO) Business Council, with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, will convene a
UNWTO Regional Conference on Climate Solutions for the Tourism Industry for the
Middle Eastern and Mediterranean countries in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, from
23-24 November 2008.
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6 November 2008: The World Bank, in partnership with SEB and
Scandinavian institutional investors, will raise funds for projects seeking to
mitigate climate change or promote adaptation to its effects, through the issue
of a “World Bank green bond.”
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6 November 2008: The UN Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO) and the International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies are
jointly organizing the World Hydrogen Energy Summit, to be held in Istanbul,
Turkey, from 15-17 July 2010.
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November 2008: The UN Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the School of Geography and Environment at Oxford University, has developed a dataset of climate change country profiles for 52 developing countries.
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9 November 2008: The Fifth International Weather Forum took
place from 6-9 November 2008, in Brussels, Belgium. The event was co-sponsored
by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the European Community,
MeteoFrance and other organizations. It brought together meteorologists,
experts in climate, journalists, weather presenters and broadcasters from all
over the world to discuss climate change and ways to better inform the public.
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8 November 2008: The International Conference “The European
Forest-Based Sector: Bio-Responses to Address New Climate and Energy
Challenges?” took place from 6-8 November 2008, in Nancy, France. The
Conference aimed to provide policy makers with information regarding the role
of the forest-based sector in relation to the physical processes of the carbon
cycle, the competition between wood and other materials, and the energy market.
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8 November 2008: Participants to the 44th session of the International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC), which was held in Yokohama, Japan, from 3-8 November 2008, discussed developments under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regarding forests and their potential implications for tropical forests and the world tropical timber economy, but did not adopt a decision on this agenda item.
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