While the re-election of President Obama is seen good news for green tech companies, whether the government will increase its financialsupport and successfully push for emission-reduction policies remain to be seen.
The G-8 and G-20 have made specific commitments to increasefinancial and technical support to developing countries by 2010 to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
So following a meeting of the House Committee of the House of Lords, and at their request, I have today written to the senior salaries review body to ask them to review the system of financialsupport in the House of Lords to increase accountability, transparency and reduce cost.
Developed countries agreed at the conference to increase funding to support efforts in developing states towards meeting the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, effectively doubling biodiversity-related international financial flows by 2015.