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With a global banking crisis in full swing it’s perhaps not surprising that fighting global warming has taken a bit of a back seat at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Just last year, nearly every global and regional banking summit put climate
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Like feet on Canadian coastlines or men accidentally shooting themselves in the head with nail guns, some things turn up far more often than you think. Like World Bank grants. Not one month after the World Bank said it will be distributing $5.5 billion for clean tech projects in
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You know it’s a big day in green tech investing when all those $500 million funds start to look like a student’s unloved shrapnel jar. The World Bank has apparently decided that all those hundreds of millions of dollars just aren’t cutting it any more and is
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Never one to speak out before it’s too late, Alastair Darling, England’s beloved Chancellor, has asked the World Bank to produce an analysis on the impact of green policies, including the likes of biofuels, on global food shortages to be presented to the G7 leaders in June. All
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Carbon is the new Panini stickers – it looks like everyone’s up for trading these days (Greenbang has the shiny foil ones – they’re worth more). The latest to jump on the “got, got, need, got, swap,” bandwagon is the World Bank’s lender, International Finance Corporation (IFC). The IFC
