The UK today committed £50 million to help over 60 of the world’s poorest countries access the latest climate research, helping them understand how best to tackle climate change in the years following December’s Copenhagen negotiations.
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network, funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), will link developing countries with leading [...]
£50 million climate network to link over 60 developing countries
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: · Climate change, cop15, Copenhagen, developing countries, dfid, finance, funding, knowledge, money, network, research
$30bn climate change aid needed for poor nations
September 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Gordon Brown has told the United Nations that $30 billion will be needed for the world’s poorest countries to deal with the effects of climate change.
Speaking in New York, the UK Prime Minister said international public finance should meet a significant proportion of this figure.
Mr Brown was among world leaders attending a climate change summit [...]
Tags: · aid, brown, change, claimte, Copenhagen, countries, finance, gordon, poor, summit
Ecominds gives £1.25m boost to national eco-projects
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Five environmental organisations have been awarded a maximum £250,000 each to deliver flagship projects as part of a national wellbeing and environmental campaign (1). Eco-initiatives given the green light include an organic farm offering therapy to disadvantaged young people and an eco-burial service which gives people the chance to have an environmentally friendly send off. [...]
Tags: · btcv, business, companies, eco, ecominds, environement, finance, green, projects
Climate Change Does Not Wait For Recessions
March 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Lack of money and technical know-how makes it difficult for poor farmers to participate in the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon trading mechanism aimed at reversing global warming. Meanwhile, the global economic crisis may further undermine investment in carbon trade in African countries.
The Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, allows for carbon trade which involves industrialised countries lowering [...]
Tags: · africa, banks, Clean Development Mechanism, Climate change, depression, finance, Greenhouse gas, Kyoto Protocol, markets, recession, shares, stock, United Nation, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United States
Banks go cold on most polluting firms
December 7th, 2008 · No Comments
It is not just small businesses and cash-strapped first-time buyers who are struggling to get bank loans at the moment. Some of the world’s most polluting companies could also find financing increasingly difficult to come by, after two of the world’s largest banks said that they would cease lending to some of their more environmentally [...]
Tags: · banks, change, climate, credit, finance, money
U.N. says credit crisis could enable “green growth”
October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Instead of sidelining the fight against climate change, the global credit crisis could hasten countries’ efforts to create “green growth” industries by revamping the financial system behind them, the U.N. climate chief said on Friday.
But that would depend on governments helping poor countries — who are key to saving the planet’s ecology — tackle their [...]
Tags: · credit, crunch, finance, green, growth, loses, money
Alberta pumps $4B into eco plan
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Amid intensifying global criticism of its environmental record, the Alberta government said Tuesday it will direct $4 billion of its expected surplus toward reducing the province’s growing carbon footprint.
The extra billions — fuelled by soaring prices for oil and natural gas — are being divvied up equally between a fund to help the energy industry [...]
Tags: · alberta, calgary, cars, eco, emissions, finance, money, plan, vehicles
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