Branching Out

Farmers in Tree Bank programme harvest long-term profits and win over sceptical neighbours

Bangkok Post | 19/04/2012

“Are you in your right mind? What are you going to get from planting trees? What will you eat? You must be crazy"

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IDB Funds Biomass Project for Low Income Families in Brazil

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$2 million project to help low-income families in Brazil to supply fruit kernels to biomass plants

Climate Change Policy & Practice | 8 February 2012

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How European Banks Fuel Hunger

A new report by Friends of the Earth Europe has faulted European banks, pension funds and insurance companies for increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer countries

By Jaya Ramachandran | IDN-InDepth NewsReport | January 11, 2012

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Coal study names top 20 ‘climate killer’ banks

Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC are among the top banks that have lent billions of euros to the coal sector – despite their much-vaunted environmental credentials, a new investigation has found

by Fiona Harvey | OurWorld 2.0 | December 2, 2011

Power Plant Scholven. Photo by Guy Gorek.

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The Endless Algebra of Climate Markets

“The Endless Algebra of Climate Markets”, is the title of a recent paper by Larry Lohmann of the UK-based NGO the Corner House. That’s him on the left holding up an “I love emissions trading”, T-shirt that Fortis Bank (now part of BNP Paribas) was handing out at a UN climate conference

By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 16th December 2011

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Indonesia Loaned $100 Million to Reduce Greenhouse Emissions

The Asian Development Bank is providing Indonesia with a $100 million loan to support Indonesia’s drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen its resilience against climate change

Jakarta Globe | November 10, 2011

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Occupy My Wallet: Moving Money Off Wall Street

If you're really ticked off at Wall Street, you've got some options: Grab your sleeping bag and head to the nearest protest site, or do something that actually pinches the big bankers' bottom line

By Lewis Braham | Bloomberg | Nov 5, 2011

A man dressed as an "evil banker" stands with other Occupy Wall Street protesters. Photographer: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

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