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 ENVIRONMENT RELATED EVENTS
 
 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 
 JOHANNESBURG - 3rd Natural Gas Conference 2010 (to Sept. 8).
Link: www.afrepren.org/events.htm
 
 ROME - Zero Emissions industry fair and a host of conferences
on wind and solar power generation and carbon emissions.
 
 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 
 MEXICO CITY - Carbon Markets & Climate Finance Mexico & Central
America (to Sept. 9). 
 
 NEW DELHI - The fourth annual India Carbon Market Conclave (to
Sept. 9)  
 
 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
 RHODES ISLAND, GREECE - 3rd International Conference on Passive
and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Environment (PALENC
2010)(to Oct. 1). Link: palenc2010.conferences.gr/
 
 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
 MONTREAL, Canada - World Energy Congress (to Sept. 16). Link:
www.wecmontreal2010.ca/
 
 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 
 LONDON - World Nuclear Association 35th Annual Symposium (to
Sept. 17).
 
 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 
 WASHINGTON - Solar Policy & Economics Forum USA (to Sept. 15).
 
 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
 GLOBAL - International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone
Layer.
 
 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
 MONTREAL, Canada - IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition (to
Sept. 24).
 
 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
 WALTHAM, MA - 2010 IEEE Conference on Innovative Technologies
for an Efficient and Reliable Electricity Supply (to Sept 29).
Link: www.ieee-energy.org/
 
 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 
 HOUSTON, Texas - 2nd annual Optimizing Wind Power Performance
conference and exhibition (to Sept. 29).
 
 ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish International Renewable Energy
Congress (TIREC) 2010 (to Oct. 1).
 
 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 
 ISTANBUL - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Oil Minister
Hussein al-Shahristani to attend Atlantic Council-sponsored
Black Sea Energy and Econoswormy Forum (to Oct. 1).
 
 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6
 LONDON - Energy from Waste (to Oct. 7). Link:
here
 
 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12 
 TRIPOLI - 5th Technology of Oil and Gas Forum (to Oct. 14).
Link: www.libyatog.com/index.php
 
 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
 LUXEMBOURG - EU Environment council meeting.
 
 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 
 GLOBAL - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
 
 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21
 ANKARA - EIF 2010 International Energy Congress (to Oct. 22).
Link: www.energy-congress.com/   
 
 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27
 LONDON - Gas to Liquids 2010 (to Oct 28). Link:
here   
 
 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8 
 NEW DELHI- India hosts two-day ministerial meeting on climate
aimed at clarifying rules on sharing future innovations and
existing technologies involving contentious intellectual
property rights (IPR) issues (to Nov. 9)
 
 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 
 JOHANNESBURG - The Renewable Energy Africa (REA) Conference and
Expo 2010 (to Nov. 11). Link:
www.reafrica.co.za/default.htm
 
 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29
 MEXICO CITY - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) ministerial meeting (to Dec. 10). This is an
annual meeting where ministers usually sign off tweaks on
implementation of Kyoto Protocol.
 
 MONDAY, DECEMBER 20
 BRUSSELS - EU Environment council meeting.
 
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