GreenFacts Newsletter - January 2009

Season’s greetings

Best wishes for 2009 from the entire GreenFacts staff!

Now Available: GreenFacts Publications in Eight Different Languages

There are now GreenFacts publications available in eight different languages, including all six official languages of the United Nations. GreenFacts continues to translate its publications in order to reach an even wider international audience.

New! GreenFacts’ Agriculture and Development Digest is now available in Arabic and Russian

Read the Agriculture and Development Digest: Arabic and Russian

New GreenFacts Digests

Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

Forms of tuberculosis that do not respond to conventional treatments have emerged. Today, between 1 and 1.5 million people are living with some form of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Read the complete GreenFacts Digest

Upcoming GreenFacts Digests

Energy Technology Scenarios

The world’s natural energy sources are under pressure, and the consequences of our energy use threaten the environment. Read about the solutions that new energy technologies could offer in the GreenFacts Digest of the International Energy Agency’s ‘Energy Technology Perspectives 2008’ executive summary, which will be online in February 2009.

Forests and Energy

What role can wood play in the production of bioenergy? And what impacts will an increased use of bioenergy have? These and other questions are answered in the GreenFacts Digest of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s ‘Forests and Energy, Key Issues’ report, which will be online in February 2009.

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