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Review for the 16th article:

A new book launched today in Bali is set to serve as key reading for businesses, governments and NGOs looking for a way to reduce their carbon emissions. Crucially, the book puts the emphasis on practical 'Actions' - concrete steps that companies and governments can take to reduce their carbon footprint. It focuses on a series of key issues, including market mechanisms, energy, transportation, telecommunications and buildings. The book will also help institutional investors to analyze and compare companies that are responding to the business risks and opportunities resulting from global warming.
Following the Bali conference, Climate Action will be distributed to governments, think-tanks, environmental organizations and businesses, including the world's largest companies. It will be particularly valuable in highlighting the widespread benefits to society that will derive from reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Besides, it is the latest in a series of UNEP initiatives to help promote a low-carbon economy. UNEP is also working towards the creation of a carbon neutral network to promote climate-friendly initiatives among governments, cities, companies and organizations across the world.

Review for the 17th article:

Biofuels is a new product which can extract energy from plant tissue. For some parties, they are afraid of the dangers of seeking a quick technological solution to pressing social needs — particularly when the technology in question may not be suited to the conditions in which it is intended to operate. But, Brazil is a good example where they use sugarcane to produce fuels successfully. The country's ethanol programme has not only contributed significantly to its energy security, but has also become a major source of income, with Brazil now supplying around 30 per cent of the world's total supply of biofuels. Thus, biofuels research should now be rising to the top of the research agenda across the developing world. Such research will not necessarily produce immediate answers to the energy supply challenges these countries increasingly face. But it
will produce the information on which evidence-based answers to these challenges can be confidently built.

Review for the 18th article:

New studies show that the Antarctic ice sheet is melting faster than previously anticipated. If this jump is indicative of a trend due to global warming the entire antarctic ecology could be threatened much sooner than expected. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif is using a variety of remote sensing techniques to determine how this trend will continue and, in particular, of conducting more frequent and systematic surveys of changes in glacier flow using satellite radar interferometry. Large uncertainties remain in predicting Antarctica's future contribution to sea level rise because ice sheets are responding faster to climate warming than anticipated.

Review for the 19th article:

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 opened in Davos on 24th of January with calls from the co-chairs to exercise 'the power of collaborative innovation' to meet the top challenges of economic instability, climate change and equitable growth. In the meeting a lot of issues have been brought up and a conclusion is made, we need to create a precedent that would provide the lead in meeting other global challenges that appear prominently on the horizon.

Review for the 20th article:

Plan to benefit communities and the Environment, EPA, with state and national partners, released a comprehensive plan to reduce runoff and increase environmental and economic benefits for communities.
The strategy will help reduce stormwater runoff and sewer overflows by promoting 'green infrastructure' approaches, such as green roofs, trees and tree boxes, rain gardens, and porous pavements. Green infrastructure techniques, technologies, and practices reduce the amount of water and pollutants that run off a site. These tools have many other benefits, including cost savings, improved air quality, urban heat island reductions, energy savings, water conservation, and urban habitat creation.