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It has been estimated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac between them underwrite debt of some $5,000,000,000,000 and that US losses from the current credit crunch could amount to $1,600,000,000,000. The entire external debt obligations of the world's 40 odd Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) is some $300,000,000,000 - that's about 6% of Fannie and Freddie's problems.

–UK: 1) Ancient tree Forum, 2) 200-acre expansion of Durham beauty spot, 3) Limewoods Native Woodland Challenge, –Spain: 4) Logging industry has advantage when it comes to biofuels –Turkey: 5) Selling licenses to “operate” national forests –Tanzania: 6) Jane Goodall’s legacy: a primate-filled island

Tri-lateral EU-Africa-China cooperation for the development of the continent Taking the floor in the second panel of the Brussels briefing on “New drivers, new players in ACP rural development”, Mr. Uwe Wissenbach, Coordinator for Africa-China relations at the EU Commission, presented the EU approach to the emergence of China in Africa.

The June 2008 issue of ‘Foreign Policy in Dialogue’ a quarterly newsletter on German and European foreign policy published by the University of Trier looks at ‘Perspectives and Strategies of the European Union’s Africa Policy after the Lisbon Summit’.

368 EU-Africa-Mid-East Posted on July 7th, 2008 at 12:54 am by deane –UK: 1) Animation commissioned by Woodland Trust, 2) Tree protest in Bristol, 3) Man’s forest loses protection because he says it’s just a garden, –Germany: 4) Economics of Climate Change, 5) 500 million Euros for tropical forests,

367 EU-Africa-Mid-East Posted on July 5th, 2008 at 12:52 am by deane Index: –EU: 13) Greenpeace’s 12-meter trunk action, 14) Increase in European forest cover coming to an end, 15) Bio-fool standards still not agreed on, –UK: 16) Invasive Squirrels trash forests, 17) Pine Marten’s reappearing

Public Consultation on EU-China-Africa launched by the European Commission April 17, 2008 Posted by ecdpm in China, EU-China-Africa, eu_africa. comments closed The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the following subject: “The EU, Africa and China: Towards trilateral dialogue