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...terms of overall lending, project financing is a small part of most banks' operations - between 5% and 10% for HSBC, for example - but environmentally and socially sound lending can have a huge long-term impact. Underwriters such as Citigroup point to the World Bank-backed pipeline running from Chad's oil fields through Cameroon to the Atlantic. Extensive environmental impact assessments were carried out before work got the green light, and oil companies like ExxonMobil have provided compensation and health care to locals whose lives and livelihoods have been disrupted by the development. A trust fund, designed to give...
...typical young Briton will throw away over a 78-year lifetime. The sculpture, commissioned by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) to draw attention to the European Union's Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) initiative, is meant to personalize and quantify the impact of a single person's gadgets on the environment. Currently, 90% of discarded electronics goes into landfills or is incinerated. Some of this waste contains lead, phosphor and barium, which have been linked to organ damage and other illnesses...
...Lady said she thought it was sweet. Most everyone else this side of Riyadh was appalled. "It was like fingernails scratching on a blackboard, magnified 10 million times," the religious conservative Gary Bauer told me. "You wonder if the folks at the White House have any idea of the impact an image like that has out in Middle America...
...made solvent by reducing benefits on a sliding scale, according to income. This utterly responsible and progressive proposition was greeted by phony bleats of outrage from leading Democrats, who proved once again that they are more interested in the demagogic exploitation of the issue than they are in the impact of baby boom retirement on their grandchildren. It also brought to the surface a question that has been bubbling in Washington for the past few weeks: Has Bush chosen the wrong issue to burnish his legacy? What if he had reversed these two priorities, gone bold on energy independence...
...decision] was a matter of wanting to be part of a smaller community where I can have an impact, and being ready for a change,” Clagett said...