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ENVIRONMENT RELATED EVENTS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 PARIS - Prix Pictet International Photographic Awards. Link: www.prixpictet.com LUZON ISLAND, Philippines - Lupit, a category 4 typhoon packing centre winds of 175 kph (108 mph) and gusts of up to 210 kph, is expected make a landfall. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 ST. PETERSBURGH - Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen meets Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, holds a news conference at Finnish-Russian forestry summit (1330). DARWIN/ADELAIDE, Australia - World Solar Challenge (to Oct. 31). Link: http://www.wsc.org.au/ MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 ARLINGTON, VA - Air Quality VII: An International Conference on Carbon Management, Mercury, Trace Elements, SOx, NOx, and Particulate Matter (to Oct. 29). WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 SHANGHAI, China - Biomass & Waste-to-Energy 2009 (to Oct. 29). MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 BARCELONA, Spain - Fifth round of U.N. Climate Change Talks (to Nov. 6). TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 NEW YORK - Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will publish a follow-up to his global warming awareness bestseller "An Inconvenient Truth". The book to be called "Our Choice" will describe solutions to global warming. MONTE CARLO, Monaco - Deep Offshore Technology International Conference and Exhibition (to Nov. 5). SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 PORT GHALIB - Ozone conference attended by 196 countries (to Nov. 8). MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 FLORIDA - US Coal Imports and Exports 2009 (to Nov. 10). TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 GALVESTON, TX - Deepwater Operations Conference & Exhibition (to Nov. 12). WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 VALENCIA, Spain - Egetica-Expoenergetica 2009 - International Conference & Exhibition on Renewable and Conventional energies (to Nov. 27). THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 SALZBURG, Austria - RENEXPO Austria 2009 - International Trade Fair and Conference for Renewable Energy and Passive House (to Nov. 28). MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 COPENHAGEN - United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) (to Dec. 18). Link: http://unfccc.int/meetings/unfccc_calendar/items/2655.php?year=2 09 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 COPENHAGEN - Final Day of United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15). Link: http://unfccc.int/meetings/unfccc_calendar/items/2655.php?year=2 09 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 BRUSSELS - EU environment ministers meeting. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 IGNALINA, Lithuania - Final day of operation of Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power plant before shutdown. ===========================================

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