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'Exciting Milestone' for Kyoto Protocol

by NO_AUTHOR | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:22 GMT

Peter Mosley

The Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming has notched up what the UN calls ‘an exciting milestone’ – 500 projects under its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), in effect a ‘swap shop’ where heavy polluters reduce their carbon debts by investing in developing countries. The 500th project is a wind farm in Gujarat, India, which is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 15,300 tonnes annually. Click here for the news release from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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