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| Let’s build our Carbon store and help save forests! |
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Situation
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) established by the Kyoto Protocol allows projects that reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to generate carbon credits called “Certified Emission Reduction” (CER). CERs are certificates of financial assets that can be sold and traded in the Carbon market. |
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| Financial meltdown’s impact on the poor: What can be done in the Philippines? |
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| October 20, 2008, Annabel’s, T. Morato Ave, Quezon City |
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The Asia Pacific Basin for Energy Strategies (“APBest”) is the first energy and economic think-tank that invokes tested models of negotiation on oil pricing and supply-and-demand policies vis-à-vis OPEC, the Gulf oil states, financial institutions and traders involved in oil. Uniquely, it seeks to cohesively collaborate with the United Nations or an appropriate body thereof to effectively strike a modus vivendi on spiraling oil prices that has led to the crippling of the world’s economy. |
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| NEGOTIATING OIL PRICES AMIDST OIL’S CRIPPLING EFFECTS: AN ASEAN STRATEGY |
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Antonio A. Ver
President
Asia Pacific Basin for Energy Strategies |
ASEAN Energy Business Forum 2008
ASEAN Ministers of Energy Meeting
August 6, 2008
Intercontinental hotel, Bangkok, Thailand |
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Abstract:
A 600% spike in crude oil prices since 1999 has triggered a grim chain of economic turmoil, food shortages, and worsening social unrest in many parts of the world. Multiple factors may have propelled the pernicious rise in fossil fuel prices. |
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