Sustainable Development - Finance Ministers Discuss Climate Change, Green Growth
Conversations about inclusive green growth and climate change filled the corridors and conference rooms of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings this week in Tokyo.
At the Second Ministerial Dialogue on Sustainable Development, on October 12, more than 40 ministers of finance and development discussed their experiences applying regulations, green taxes, and the incentives to manage tradeoffs.
They thanked Japan for hosting the event, which provide an opportunity to talk with one another about green growth fiscal policies and issues such as support for natural capital accounting mechanisms and fossil fuel subsidy reform. Some minsters spoke of the increasing prevalence of extreme weather, the unprecedented number of natural disasters in recent years, and the challenge of both strengthening disaster prevention and maintaining sustainability.
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Harry Dexter White (and John Maynard Keynes) are the founding fathers of the Bretton Woods institutions.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/1998/09/boughton.htm
Harry Dexter White was also a known communist:
http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/coldwar/venona_story.pdf
(See page 41)
So why the hell should we care about or listen to what the World Bank says? I doubt it and the IMF are working to preserve the ideals of the Founding Fathers of America.
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