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China acts on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... continue to develop its capital and technologies. The CDM fund will receive financial and advisory support from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Meanwhile, in June, Sri Lanka also announced its intention to create a CDM to finance its own ...

Gunns fuels CG debate

... which ANZ adopted less than a year ago. The Equator Principles is a set of environmental and social benchmarks that the World Bank and global banks use to assess major finance projects. Under these benchmarks, the Bell Bay pulp mill is a Category A ...

ASX preps for emissions scheme

... a report last month predicting that carbon trading is the next frontier for the hedge fund sector. According to the World Bank, the international carbon market is trading more than $30 billion ($US 25 million) a year and emissions trading around the ...

Carbon trading gets competitive hedge

... released a new report revealing carbon trading markets as the next frontier for the hedge fund sector. According to the World Bank, the international carbon market is trading more than $30 billion ($US 25 million) a year with emissions trading quadrupling ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... cent during the quarter. State government wages rose only marginally and those of local governments not at all. The World Bank has released a report on the future population growth and Economic distribution within the developing world saying that it ...

Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... volumes can be sourced from the EU of which the UK accounts for about 45 per cent of contracts that extend to 2012. The World Bank estimates that last year carbon markets were worth $11 billion whereas for the year to September this year their value ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... recent interest rate moves. The NAB survey was undertaken just before the recent increase in the RBA's cash rate. The World Bank has released a report on the East Asian economic region saying that in 2007 it expects emerging East Asia to grow by 7.3 ...

Pimco replacement smooth sailing

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
... head of portfolio management, for Asia Pacific and already replaced him. Kumar Palghat, formerly bond manager for the World Bank, has left the company after announcing his resignation last week and been immediately replaced by Julian Foxall, as lead ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
... the size and growth of these economies. The proposition will be taken up at the September meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Singapore where there is expected to be significant opposition from the larger European economies who have much of the ...

Intelligently designed eLearning programs boost sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... intelligently this way include Barnes & Noble, Fidelity, Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and the World Bank.