News Archive
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- Call for carbon credits
- Released: 23 November 2007
President of Guyana says credits should be introduced as an incentive for countries to reduce levels of deforestation- Don McKinnon outlines priorities for CHOGM
- Released: 22 November 2007
A new Commonwealth Secretary-General will be elected at the Meeting- Climate change addressed at Commonwealth Youth Forum
- Released: 21 November 2007
Director of Commonwealth Foundation highlights some of the potential effects of global warming- Climate change not only environmental
- Released: 16 November 2007
Small island states already feeling the social, economic and political impact- Experts address water access in India
- Released: 24 October 2007
Increasing collaboration between public and private sectors seen as potential way to improve water supplies- Deputy Secretary-General visits Iwokrama Forest
- Released: 17 October 2007
“Iwokrama is helping us to find practical approaches that will maintain forests and the important natural services that they provide, including regulating our climate,” says Ransford Smith- More action needed to combat climate change, says Guyana’s president
- Released: 17 October 2007
“There is need for the global community to start solving the problem” -- President Bharrat Jagdeo- Foreign ministers discuss governance, climate change at annual meeting
- Released: 3 October 2007
Climate change has been on the Commonwealth agenda since 1989, says Secretary-General- Effective urban governance needed for slums, says Ransford Smith
- Released: 3 October 2007
Every human being has the right to live in security, peace and dignity, notes Deputy Secretary-General- Effective urban governance needed for slums
- Released: 1 October 2007
“By tackling the problems of slums, we can help people to realise their full potential and make a better world for all” -- Ransford Smith