The needed annual investments in infrastructure outlined above could be paid with carbon prices well within the range of what's been suggested
by multilateral agencies and imposed by forward looking managers of progressive economies.
Not exact matches
The Education 2030 Framework for Action was adopted
by more than 70 Ministers, representatives of Member States, the United Nations,
multilateral and bi-lateral
agencies, civil society, regional organizations, the teaching profession, academia, youth and the private sector.
More than 1,500 participants were invited
by the UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, with more than 100 Ministers of Education, heads and members of delegations, heads of
agencies and officials of
multilateral and bilateral organizations, and representatives of civil society, the teaching profession, youth and the private sector.
To be attained
by 2015, these were, of course, entirely laudable — e.g., «eradicate extreme poverty and hunger» and «achieve universal primary education» — and they have definitely influenced the priorities of various UN
agencies, other governmental and
multilateral aid providers, and private philanthropies.
These investments are subject to the risk that a governmental entity may delay or refuse to pay interest or repay principal on its sovereign debt, due, for example, to cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency reserves, political considerations, the relative size of the governmental entity's debt position in relation to the economy or the failure to put in place economic reforms required
by the International Monetary Fund or other
multilateral agencies.
As mentioned in the press release:» -LRB-...) these groups released a briefing titled «Dirty Dozen: How Public Finance Drives the Climate Crisis through Oil, Gas, and Coal Expansion», highlighting fossil fuel projects
by the World Bank Group, other
multilateral and national development banks and export credit
agencies.
We also, in Paris we launched something I think will turn out to be very important for us — a C40 finance facility, which is largely funded
by the German government at the moment, and is intended to fill that gap where we've got lots of cities with really well technically designed projects, low carbon projects, whether that be cycle routes, or a new low carbon building developments, but where the city just doesn't have the capacity to turn those into really bankable projects — something that a private investor, or indeed a
multilateral funding
agency, feels comfortable about putting the money into, because it's just not what they're used to doing.
This was originally established after the war as a kind of super,
multilateral aid
agency which lent liquidity to developing nations but which was captured in the 90s
by the Green Blob and now puts «sustainability» before industrial development.