The Worldwide Fund for Nature, for instance, now has around 5m members, up from 570, 000 in 1985.
In 2000 Sachs started pushing in speeches and journal articles for a worldwide fund for treating poor-country plagues.
The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) is providing emergency aid to Kaziranga wildlife park in Assam, eastern India, where hundreds of animals have drowned in record floods.
Mark Kenber of the Worldwide Fund for Nature says this is all a distraction from the real aim of Kyoto, which was to promote cleaner technology and more efficient use of energy.
Through its Worldwide Conservation Fund, Disney has also supported CI-led species conservation efforts affecting one million hectares in Colombia and Brazil.
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We've heard this whole song and dance before, but apparently Hybrios are such an improvement over regular one-use batteries that the Worldwide Wildlife Fund recently let the company stick its logo on the packets -- and if there's anything that motivates us to buy things, it's a giant, environmentally-friendly panda.
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Calculate carbon emissions for a road trip or flight and buy offsets to fund worldwide projects that employ those in poverty, such as tree-planting programmes that hire low-income workers, or projects that help both the poor and the environment by distributing fuel-efficient stoves, as opposed to wood-burning ones used in most homes in developing countries.
Partners Worldwide Entrepreneurs is one such investment fund.
Consequently, a fiscally fit enterprise with a great historical record and the financial resources to fund and exploit a large and worldwide growing market, coupled with the expertise to be a leader, is my idea of a future great company.
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Another Brown favorite: Fidelity Worldwide (FWWFX), a broadly diversified global growth fund that Brown describes as a fairly conservative fund with a decent long-term record of 16.7% per year on average over the last five years.
Global Fund-supported programs save more than 100, 000 lives worldwide every month.
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She said in a ruling released to lawyers in the case Wednesday and to the public on Thursday that investigating and writing about newsworthy events worldwide was expensive and enforcement of the copyright laws permits the AP to earn revenue to fund it.
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