UN 'help desk' to aid roll out of carbon offset projects

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New service to help boost number of carbon offset projects undertaken in poorer countries

The UN's climate change secretariat, the UNFCCC, has this week launched a help desk service designed to help developing countries accelerate the rollout of emission reduction programmes under its Clean...

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