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SA launches agency to combat climate change
Date: 2005/10/21 Source: SAPA
Minerals and Energy Minister Lindiwe Hendricks has launched an agency to help combat climate change in the country.

Hendricks told a conference on climate change, underway in Johannesburg, that the move was in line with the Kyoto protocol which requires developing countries to establish the Designated National Authority (DNA) to participate in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) activities in promoting sustainable development.
 
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