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Snippets: Canada to see $700m RE bonds in 2013 / USA took 70% of IFC's $1bn green bond / FT predicts 2013 as year of rooftop solar securitization

> Canada's BMO Capital is, according to this story, predicting C$772-million of renewable energy project finance bonds from the country in 2013. For example, expect to see a new 17yr wind bond from Brookfield / Comber Wind. DBRS have already rated it  BBB.

> IFC $1bn Green Bond snippets:

Doha snapshots: Negotiations? pffft / IEA+WB+UNEP+PwC+WMO: big gun reports fire away / meanwhile, in Uganda ....

- I’m in Qatar, a place slightly smaller than Connecticut, prosaically described in my travel guide app as “mainly flat and barren desert, covered with loose sand and gravel”. There’s not a lot of desert left in its capital, Doha, just a vast sea of choked-up highways (serious SUV traffic!) and low-rise buildings punctuated by monumentalist skyscrapers, all thanks to huge natural gas resources. Pity we're going to have to leave a large part of that gas in the ground if we're going to avoid catastrophic climate change.