Global News December 2009

*United Nations Billion Tree Campaign reaches and overtakes its revised goal to see 7 billion trees planted around the world, one for each person on the planet, during September 2009. Some 7.4 billion trees have now been planted on every continent. Leading planting countries include the People's Republic of China, Ethiopia, Turkey, Mexico, Kenya, Cuba, and Indonesia. December 31 United Nations Environment Programme, December 31, 2009 
* Bolivia: deforestation rate is 20 times the global average. December 19 Global Voices Online, December 19th, 2009 topic
*Bonn Center for Local Climate Action and Reporting - carbonn - aims at facilitating the access of local governments to climate benchmarking instruments on a global scale. 14 December United Nations Environment Programme, 14 December 2009 topic
*Solar power plants, stretching across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan, to be built. Construction is likely to begin in 2011 and the plants are expected to be running by 2015. 9 December DFID, 9 December 2009 topic
*Mongolia to introduce national basic income, December 3 Liberal Conspiracy, December 3, 2009 topic
*Italy: Monteveglio local govt's partnership with Transition Initiative, December 3 Transition towns forum, December 3, 2009 
*Copenhagen’s Christmas tree lights to be powered by bikes, December 2 off-grid.net, December 2, 2009 topic
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