9 October 2008: Commissioned by the UN Environment Programme
(UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Paris Re and Marsh have
produced an index-based weather cover for the wind energy sector. The study analyzes
the technical, legal and financial feasibility of implementing weather coverage
in Mexico.
6 October 2008: A bi-regional EU-Latin America and the
Caribbean (EU-LAC) forum convened in Paris, France, on 6 October 2008, to
address the challenges of globalization and its effect on the economy, social
cohesion and the environment. Pamela Cox, World Bank Vice President for Latin
America and the Caribbean, addressed the forum, highlighting that some
countries in Latin America and its citizens “and particularly the extreme poor,
are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.”
3 October 2008: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) is co-organizing with the province and the city of
Milan, a Conference on Cities and Climate Change, which is scheduled to convene
from 9-10 October 2008, in Milan, Italy.
2 October 2008: The World Bank has announced an 87% increase
in funding for renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) projects and
programmes in developing countries in the past fiscal year.
26 September 2008: Leading industrialized nations met at the
World Bank, and pledged more than US$6.1 billion to the recently created World
Bank Climate Investment Funds (CIF).
26 September 2008: Pascal Lamy, World Trade Organization
(WTO) Director-General, addressed the 2008 WTO Public Forum highlighting that
trade in “environmental goods and services, in particular in climate-friendly
technology, can make vital pollution prevention and reduction equipment more
accessible to countries in need; thereby easing the climate crisis.”
16 September 2008: Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), participated in
the Energy Leaders Summit organized by the Financial Times and World Energy
Council, in London, UK, on 16-17 September 2008. Addressing heads of the main
traditional and new energy companies, as well as government representatives and
financiers, who met to discuss the future of energy beyond 2025, Gurría
highlighted the need for public-private partnerships for the development and
deployment of “large-scale transformative energy technologies.”
September 2008: Global consultations for the development of
a “Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change for the World Bank
Group” continue receiving comments online from civil society, until 15
September 2008.
3 September 2008: A new World Bank report estimates that
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in sub-Saharan Africa could
potentially amount to 740 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year.
2 September 2008: The Third High Level Forum on Aid
Effectiveness is taking place from 2-4 September 2008, in Accra, Ghana. Over
100 high-level country representatives, as well as heads of bilateral and
multilateral development agencies, donor organizations, and civil society
organizations, will discuss ways to increase the transparency of aid and make
it more results-oriented.
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