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Article: CLIMATE CHANGE: U.N. PLANS TO RUN 'CLIMATE NEUTRAL' OPERATION
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- December 12, 2007
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Ramesh Jaura
Inter Press Service English News Wire
12-12-2007
NUSA DUA, Bali, Dec. 12, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- The United Nations
announced Wednesday that it is joining the growing worldwide effort
to go "climate neutral," meaning that it plans to reduce or offset
the greenhouse gases produced by its activities.
The move will affect some 20 agencies, funds and programs of the
world body, as well as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his team.
The U.N. calculates that greenhouse gas emissions arising from
travel to and from Nusa Dua on the tropical island of Bali in
Indonesia -- where the two-week U.N. climate change conference ends
Friday -- represent around 3,370 metric tons of carbon dioxide. The
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