singular_me
20th October 2015, 03:03 PM
the last turn toward eliminating competition. small and medium size businesses will pay the heavy price, and for us, we'll just have to pedal faster to make ends meet.
there is no meritocracy without the implementation of idiocracy as the first will eventually prompt to conceal information or lie... listen to Lagarde below. LOL
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Leaders of the IMF, World Bank and Germany's Angela Merkel call for price on carbon
Date
October 20, 2015
Global leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have called on countries and companies to put a price on carbon to speed up efforts to fight climate change.
In what has been described as an unprecedented alliance ahead of the Paris climate summit starting next month, the leaders said pricing emissions was needed to steer the global economy to a low-carbon future that would avoid dangerous levels of global warming.
"There has never been a global movement to put a price on carbon at this level and with this degree of unison," World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim said in a statement. "The science is clear, the economics compelling and we now see political leadership emerging to take green investment to scale at a speed commensurate with the climate challenge."
The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, which includes the giant California Public Employees Retirement System, CalPERS, plans to step up efforts at the Paris summit to get more regions to start pricing carbon. Some 40 nations and 23 cities, states and regions have fixed or floating carbon prices, covering about 12 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the group said
"The market needs a transparent and consistent price that discourages carbon emissions and stimulates low carbon investment opportunities," said Anne Stausboll, chief executive of CalPERS. The group manages some $US295 billion ($405 billion) in assets and said this month that it would consider divesting its holdings in thermal coal companies........
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/leaders-of-the-imf-world-bank-and-germanys-angela-merkel-call-for-price-on-carbon-20151019-gkcjy2.html#ixzz3p8yqiNzd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3GK1CccBJg
there is no meritocracy without the implementation of idiocracy as the first will eventually prompt to conceal information or lie... listen to Lagarde below. LOL
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Leaders of the IMF, World Bank and Germany's Angela Merkel call for price on carbon
Date
October 20, 2015
Global leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have called on countries and companies to put a price on carbon to speed up efforts to fight climate change.
In what has been described as an unprecedented alliance ahead of the Paris climate summit starting next month, the leaders said pricing emissions was needed to steer the global economy to a low-carbon future that would avoid dangerous levels of global warming.
"There has never been a global movement to put a price on carbon at this level and with this degree of unison," World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim said in a statement. "The science is clear, the economics compelling and we now see political leadership emerging to take green investment to scale at a speed commensurate with the climate challenge."
The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, which includes the giant California Public Employees Retirement System, CalPERS, plans to step up efforts at the Paris summit to get more regions to start pricing carbon. Some 40 nations and 23 cities, states and regions have fixed or floating carbon prices, covering about 12 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the group said
"The market needs a transparent and consistent price that discourages carbon emissions and stimulates low carbon investment opportunities," said Anne Stausboll, chief executive of CalPERS. The group manages some $US295 billion ($405 billion) in assets and said this month that it would consider divesting its holdings in thermal coal companies........
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/leaders-of-the-imf-world-bank-and-germanys-angela-merkel-call-for-price-on-carbon-20151019-gkcjy2.html#ixzz3p8yqiNzd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3GK1CccBJg