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Air Pollution
Cutting Air Pollution Delivers “Big Bang for Your Buck”
Economic Benefits Range from Human Health up to Crops, Forests and Other Key Nature Services Says Latest GEO Year Book
Feb 8, 2006, 18:29

Air Pollution
Global Finance Community Joins United Nations to Tackle Climate Change
UNEP NEWS RELEASE, NEW YORK, 10 May 2005:
Institutional investors managing $3.22 trillion back new call for action at 2005 Investor Summit on Climate Risk.
An unprecedented grouping of pension funds, foundations, European investors and US state treasurers have joined today with the United Nations to back a new call for urgent action by the global investment community to tackle the threat of climate change.


May 29, 2005, 11:43

Air Pollution
Sweden and UNEP Team Up to Help Developing Countries Phase Out of Ozone-Depleting HCFCS
A partnership agreement between the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) officially launched activities to provide assistance to developing countries to help them end their reliance on hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), chemicals which were adopted as alternatives to the ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), used in applications like refrigeration, air conditioning and foam blowing.
Feb 22, 2008, 15:59

Air Pollution
Using carbon emission credits to promote environmentally sensitive agriculture

Participating nations at the Kyoto conference last December agreed that investment in carbon-absorbing environmental practices which offset harmful "greenhouse gas" emissions could be converted into credits.

TechnoServe is developing a way for low-income farmers to be included in the international market for carbon emission credits. TechnoServe is investigating the use of these credits to support environmentally sensitive agricultural cultivation by small-scale producers in developing countries.
Jun 5, 2007, 08:59

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