You go, Charles: Prince Charles ‘dedicates 2009 to saving world’s rainforests'' | Top News

London, Feb 11 : Prince Charles has been revealed to have dedicated this year to saving the world's rainforests.

Charles, 60, will be visiting the Amazon in Brazil next month where he will give a keynote speech on what he has described as "one of the biggest crises facing the planet".

Fed Agencies Settle Global Warming Lawsuit To Tune Of $500M

San Francisco’s federal court recently settled a lawsuit in which environmental groups and four U.S. cities accused two govt. agencies, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the country’s official export-credit agency, and the Overseas Private Investment Corp., of financing energy projects overseas without considering impacts on global warming, Santa Monica Daily Press reports.

Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Boulder, Colorado. and the California cities of Arcata, Oakland and Santa Monica, filed the lawsuit in 2002, claiming that “the two agencies provided more than $32 billion in financing and loan guarantees for fossil fuel projects over 10 years without studying their impact on global warming or the environment as required by the National Environmental Policy Act,” FoxReno.com reports. The cities claimed they would feel the environmental impacts of overseas projects.

The two agencies have agreed to provide a combined $500 million in financing for renewable energy projects and take into account GHG emissions associated with projects each company supports.

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