Implementing
the Kyoto Mechanisms
Contributions by Financial Institutions
This research and development project reflects international concerns about
global climate change. Its objective is to develop innovative financial
products, tailored to participants in emerging greenhouse gas emission markets
and prospective users of the Kyoto mechanisms. It also aims at exploring
ways private-sector financial institutions can help implement those markets
and mechanisms.
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Insurance,
Technological Risk
and Emerging Science and Technology Policies
The INTEREST project (INsurance, TEchnological Risk, and Emerging Science
and Technology policies) focuses on the insurance sector’s role in supporting
innovative projects for sustainable development.
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Vietnam
Setting up bio-gas digesters
The protection of forests in the North of Vietnam is a major challenge
for the Vietnamese government. The need for firewood is such that forest
reserves
and protected areas are under severe pressures. A feasibility study shall
identify whether alternative fuels such as biogas could help reducing
the
pressure on the forest while at the same time enhance and sustain a rural,
social and economical development in remote mountainous villages.
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