Part of the meeting was their program to get wealthy to give some of their wealth toward programs and such.
Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, made the call during the opening meeting of the 178-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, in Bangkok.
Further, some said if the Federal Reserve comes out with some sort of quantitative easing program at its meeting next week, then that will underpin prices.
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The success of IBM's ISV program has been contingent, in part, on its software partners meeting quotas that call for a certain percentage of applications to be deployed on IBM hardware and software.
This expansion and the valuations of the established Chinese makers was in part built on hopes that China would implement a German-style feed-in-tariff subsidy program, something China was talking about around the time of the Copenhagen climate meeting.
As I suggested in my column last weekend, the Fed may now be wishing it had never mentioned quantitative easing, or virtually guaranteed markets a large program of easing, the extent of which it will announce after its FOMC meeting next Wednesday.
Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, said next week the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank will visit Greece to evaluate the progress toward meeting the conditions to allow the next tranche of the 2010 aid program.
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In a hastily convened meeting today, the Bank of Japan announced it would expand its loan program for banks.
Mabus plans to let the outgoing commandant make his case to Gates for keeping the program on track, and then recommend a different course of action to Gates in a separate meeting.
"We will have a program of support for Cyprus by Monday, " central bank governor Panicos Demetriades said as he left a meeting with the country's president and political party leaders.
Part of that comes from the comments by the Federal Reserve after the release of the December meeting minutes where some monetary policy committee members suggested ending the quantitative easing program this year.
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The Medicare program, I'm convinced, first of all, that the savings in Medicare which I proposed, meeting the Republicans halfway between our differences last time, are by and large rooted in policy, which I believe is good policy designed not only to save money for five years but to save money over the long run.
"What will end these disasters is an urgent program of building renovations, " said Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, who attended the meeting.
The second key announcement from the BoJ meeting was that a 13 trillion yen asset purchase program, aka stimulus, would start in January of next year.
But to understand why the Navy now looks uniquely suited to meeting missile defense needs, it is instructive to go back to the earliest days of the program, and trace how those needs have changed over time.
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