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Oil Changehttp://priceofoil.org/2008/10/13/financial-crisis-undermines-climate-change-action/ [Oil Change] Yvo de Boer, who heads the Bonn-based UN Climate Change Secretariat, told a news conference:  “The credit crisis can be used to make progress in a new direction, an opportunity for global green economic growth.”

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