The Finance Ministers of the G20 economies met over the weekend in Scotland. UK Prime Minister Brown, who attended the meeting, won headlines for his support for a tax on financial transactions, the so-called Tobin Tax. However, Brown did not win support, notably from the US, and the finance ministers made no significant progress on low-carbon finance.
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Climate Answers is involved in a number of different projects. Here is an update of what we are achieving.
read more »Warren Buffet, the iconic investor who has proved time and again that it is quite possible to ‘pick winners’, has made his biggest investment so far – $26 billion in one of the main rail operators in the US, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF). It is good news that Buffet regards rail as a future winner.
read more »EU leaders met last Thursday and Friday to discuss climate finances. They said that €100 billion a year should be transferred to the developing world by 2020 and were predictably upbeat about the outcome. However, it was basically a failure, for two reasons.
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This document sets out some of the important climate change statistics concerning energy use in Poland.
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