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Carbon Offset Update

In November, 2008 the Technical Project Manager of the State of Paraná, Brazil, Mr. Sergio Mudrovitsch de Bittencourt, and the head of the State’s forestry department, Mr. Paulo Caçola, paid an official visit to the Secretariat to officially deliver its report on the carbon offset programme for the operations of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity from the ninth to tenth meetings of its Conference of the Parties, as defined in the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, and the Governor of Paraná, Roberto Requião. Click here to read the communiqué.