Bank of Kyoto

Soros: Finance gap could 'wreck' climate talks
AP Online; 12/10/2009; 2268 words; ...after the 2012 expiration of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which covered 37 richer nations. The U.S. had rejected Kyoto. An agreement is also expected to include...such as solar and wind power. The World Bank and others project that hundreds of billions...

'Millions will go hungry' by 2050 as poor nations suffer in the heat; Copenhagen summit told of 'greatest threat'.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 12/10/2009; 1425 words; ...which campaigners are concerned would be run by the World Bank, on the basis poorer countries took action to increase efforts...alternative document from China would extend the existing 1997 Kyoto Protocol, with its legal requirement for developed countries...

UN: Leaked document not formal text.
Aljazeera.net; 12/9/2009; 858 words; ...which appears to undermine the existing Kyoto Protocol and on-going UN climate negotiations...of climate change finance to the World Bank. Waldon Bello, the director of "Focus...only legitimate framework, which is the Kyoto Protocol," he said. "This is not what...

Part 2: Pre-Budget Report Statement to the House of Commons, delivered by the RT Hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer,.
M2 Presswire; 12/9/2009; 2924 words; ...intervention by the Government, total bank loans to businesses today are...and we are working with the banks to make sure that happens...contribution from the major banks towards a GBP500m Growth Capital...offered government guarantees on bank loans to over 6,000 businesses...led the way - on ...

CLIMATE CHANGE: WORLD BANK TOUTS CARBON MARKET
Inter Press Service English News Wire; 12/9/2009; 876 words; ...criticismfrom civil society, the World Bank lauded the global carbon marketin...The study assesses the World Bank's experience of working withthe Kyoto Protocol's flexibility mechanisms...the carbon market. The World Bank sees the carbon market as a...