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Greening Water law

Source: 
UNEP
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http://www.unep.org/delc/PDF/UNEP_Greening_water_law.pdf

Governments and law-makers need to integrate environmental concerns into water-use legislation to avert an impending global water crisis, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), titled "Greening Water Law".

According to the report, launched Tuesday at World Water Week in Stockholm, competition is increasing between the rapidly growing human population-which needs water for drinking, sanitation, food production and economic development-and species and ecosystems, which rely on water to sustain their existence.

Author(s): 
UNEP
Author: Preeti Aggarwal

UK launches investor forum to spur green finance

Source Name: 
Reuters
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http://af.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=AFLDE6860HZ20100907

The British government launched an initiative on Tuesday to unlock new investment in low-carbon technologies and make London a global hub for green finance.

The launch of the Capital Markets Climate Initiative (CMCI) is being marked by an event at the London Stock Exchange.

Policy makers and investment banks such as Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) and Morgan Stanley (MS.N) will meet to discuss obstacles to cleaner energy.

Author: Anonymous

Nations rethink Copenhagen commitment on climate funding

Source Name: 
Financial Express
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http://www.financialexpress.com/printer/news/678011/

The informal climate change ministerial talks in Geneva hosted by the Swiss government to overcome the hurdle of tong-term financing of mitigation and adaption measures and its regulation on climate change evoked mixed responses from the players and NGOs.

The success of the climate change talks in Cancun in November will hinge mainly on the funding and financial issues.

Author: Preeti Aggarwal

No noises ahead of Cancun

Source Name: 
Indian Express
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http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/678135/

Around this time last year, there was frenetic activity in the climate change circuits in the lead up to the widely anticipated summit meeting in Copenhagen, even though it had become sufficiently clear that a comprehensive and global agreement — that was the stated objective of the conference — was not going to be realised in the Danish capital.

Author: Anonymous

First high-resolution maps of carbon trapped in tropical forests revealed

Source Name: 
India Talks - http://www.indiatalkies.com/2010/09/highresolution-maps-carbon-trapped-tropical-forests-revealed.html
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http://www.indiatalkies.com/2010/09/highresolution-maps-carbon-trapped-tropical-forests-revealed.html

Using satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists have come out with the first high-resolution maps of carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices.

Author: Anonymous

Hope of deal in Cancun fades as rich break vow

Source Name: 
Economic Times
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6503132.cms?prtpage=1

Hope of progress on a global climate deal at the year-end Cancun summit is rapidly dimming with rich countries backtracking on their commitment to provide climate funds. Finance is a key issue for rebuilding trust among developing and developed countries. 

The two-day informal Geneva Dialogue on Climate Finance held late last week focused on sources of long-term climate finance, particularly the role of public and private funds. The developing world is concerned about the increased emphasis by industrialised countries on private sources and markets for climate funds. 

Author: Anonymous

Carbon Mapping Breakthrough

Source Name: 
Science Daily
Source Url: 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100906160105.htm

By integrating satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the World Wildlife Fund and in coordination with the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), have revealed the first high-resolution maps of carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices. 

Author: Preeti Aggarwal

JBIC to Lend $2.5 Billion for Environmental Projects Overseas

Source Name: 
Bloomberg
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2010-09-06/jbic-to-lend-2-5-billion-this-fiscal-year-for-environment-projects-abroad.html

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation plans to offer $2.5 billion in loans this fiscal year for clean-energy and water-supply projects abroad to help Japanese companies market their environmental technologies.

The state-controlled lender known as JBIC will seek to ally with local commercial banks to provide syndicated loans totaling about $5 billion for such projects in the 12 months through March 2011, Takashi Hongo, head of the bank’s environment finance engineering section, said yesterday.

Author: Anonymous

Asia-Europe Meeting on Climate Change opens in Vietnam

Source Name: 
CRI English
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http://english.cri.cn/6966/2010/09/06/45s593060.htm

The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) on Climate Change opened on Monday in Vietnam's northern province of Quang Ninh, Vietnam News Agency reported.

The two-day meeting, hosted by Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, drew more than 150 representatives from Vietnam, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Britain, Spain, South Korea, Japan, India, Australia and Indonesia among others.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha said at the meeting that Vietnam is one of the countries that are hardest hit by climate change.

Author: Anonymous

Climate change help urged for developing nations

Source Name: 
Reuters India
Source Url: 
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-51317620100906

Four associations on climate change initiatives, which represent over 100 insurers, have urged world leaders and governments to use insurance-linked products to protect developing countries against the impact of climate change. 

Author: Anonymous

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