Podcast: Carbon Emissions Interview: Int'l Trade & Climate Change

This edition of Environment Matters arrives just as the international community embarks on a two-year process to secure a new global framework to limit the amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) entering the atmosphere and devise ways to help developing countries adapt to and prepare themselves for the effects of climate change. At the World Bank, we believe that climate change—and developing countries’ adaptation to it—is a critical challenge of our time that must be integrated into core development strategies.Read More

The World Bank Group is focusing its efforts on four fronts.

1) Helping developing countries to move to a lower carbon path by exploiting renewable energy, supporting energy conservation, and increasing energy efficiency. (audio)
2) Promoting new technologies in renewable energyand energy efficiency.(audio)
3) Preventing deforestation through the World Bank's Carbon Finance Unitinitiatives.(audio)
4) Adaptation to climate risks. (This web site)

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