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Posted by Guest Editor from www.WhereisMyNewCar.com on Thursday, November 17, 2011,
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The Environmental Audit Committee considers the extent to which the policies and programmes of government departments and non-departmental public bodies contribute to environmental protection and sustainable development, and it audits their performance against any sustainable development and environmental protection targets. Unlike most select committees, the Committee’s remit cuts across government rather than focuses on the work of a particular department.
According to the report, the G... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor C on Wednesday, November 17, 2010,
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Via Guest Blogger - with excerpts from Bloomberg Businessweek article
Speaking after Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama has backed away from a cap-and-trade program saying he will work with Republicans on other ways to cut carbon emissions, reports Bloomberg Businessweek.
A cap-and-trade program was included in the climate bill passed by the House last year, but stalled in this year’s Senate. Peter Shattuck, a carbon-markets policy analyst at ... Continue reading ...
Via CDP - www.cdproject.net The highlights from 2010 disclosures
The CDP Water Disclosure replicates and builds on the tried-and-trusted methodology and process that the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has used for carbon and climate change since 2003. Backed by 137 institutional investors representing $16 trillion in assets, this year CDP sent its first annual water questionnaire to 302 of the world’s 500 largest companies in the FTSE Global Equity Index Series, focusing on sectors that ar... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Tuesday, November 9, 2010,
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Several large commercial lenders including Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, and Citibank, say they are starting to shift their involvement away from industry practices that they see as risky to their reputations and bottom lines, reports The New York Times. These include investments in oil and gas development, nuclear power, coal-fired electricity generation, oil sands development, fuel pipeline construction and forestry.
Wells Fargo will invest more than $100 million by the end of 2011 to fund th... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor C on Thursday, August 19, 2010,
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Courtesy of FAI
Can
the poorest be reached with finance? “Ultra poor” members of society
face a series of constraints and deprivations that distinguish them
from the general poor. Limited social networks, chronic malnutrition,
and reliance on patronage systems characterize a socioeconomic class
that is hard to “bank.” Research now indicates that most microfinance
institutions serve poor and lower-income customers, but not the
poorest. A new FAI Framing Note
on “Targeting the ... Continue reading ...
A few weeks ago, I had the
privilege of traveling to London to help give a presentation at the
Zoological Society of London for the symposium: Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction: What, Why, and How?
Since December, I have been working with Craig Leisher at The Nature
Conservancy on drafting a knowledge review that was commissioned
specifically for the symposium. We presented our report, “Biodiveristy
as a Mechanism for Poverty Reduction: A State of Kno...
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