Carbon-emissions trading is becoming increasingly widespread within the industry, as is carbon off-setting, the latter involving passengers paying a voluntary surcharge to help finance the planting of trees or other green projects and so balance out the environmental damage caused by their journey.
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The balance of projects funded is largely rooftop photovoltaic systems.
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Also, the use of investment platforms (special investment vehicles) to fund local governments steers funds to SOEs involved in development projects, thereby affecting the balance between state and market.
In opposition, Mr Osborne criticised the way that PFI had been used simply to keep big projects off the government's balance sheet.
How do you balance all your different projects?
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In Maryland, tax collections in nearly every category are falling short of expectations, with dismal revenue projects putting more pressure on state legislators to balance the budget without relying on the federal stimulus package, CNN affiliate WBAL reported.
He insists that industry, as well as governments, must tackle the core issues, rather than trying to rid themselves of responsibility through measures like carbon offsetting - where individuals or companies balance their carbon output by financing green projects.
Some moonlight in their new venture while holding down a traditional corporate gig, or use larger and longer freelance projects where the work might be ho-hum to balance out a growing portfolio of smaller, more exciting clients.
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The bulk of Western credits to the former Soviet Union took the form of so-called balance of payments or general purpose loans with no underlying projects or trade transactions.
If a company truly has excess cash on its balance sheet that is not needed to fund future profitable projects, then distributing it to shareholders is the right thing to do.
These small companies will be competing for financing against European giants with big balance sheets and long histories of building big, complicated projects like Abengoa and Acciona (who have already built and are still building solar thermal projects) and Siemens and Areva (who both acquired solar thermal companies recently).
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The new company will also benefit from a larger balance sheet, giving it greater capacity to shoulder the costs of long term projects such as building nuclear power plants.
Donor countries, such as Britain, have welcomed the commission and its clarion call for greater investment in poor-country health, although they are now left with the tricky task of trying to balance this against commitments to education, enterprise capital and other more traditional aid projects.
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