Climate Change Rises On World Bank Agenda US: April 11, 2008 WASHINGTON - Climate change is now one of the World Bank's top concerns because of its expected impact on health and economic growth in developing countries, the bank's lead environmental economist said. Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are where global warming's damage will disproportionately be felt, and that makes it a key issue for the World Bank and other financial institutions aiming to foster development, said Kirk Hamilton, co-author of the Global Monitoring Report.

THE pain of rising interest rates on home owners could be curtailed and Australia's carbon emissions reduced while fighting inflation under a new economic policy now before the Federal Government. The policy by Harold Lubansky, a former managing director of the Stafford Group, has been viewed by members of the Government and the Opposition and has garnered interest from economists. Mr Lubansky proposes the creation of a National Climate Change Savings Scheme into which Australians earning a net income of $38,000 a year or more would contribute.

Utilities in Britain and four other European countries stand to gain windfall profits of up to

The United Nations conference on climate change, now on in Bangkok, is expected to produce an agreement to cut global emissions drastically by 2050.

The Annual Plan for Gujarat for the new fiscal year was on Tuesday pegged at Rs 21,000 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the Gujarat Chief