This report presents greenhouse gas inventories for the European Community and its Member States, for 1990-1998. The EU has to report annual inventories to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The European Commission submitted the report to the UNFCCC secretariat in April 2000. Total...

This report serves as the annual submission of the European Community (EC) to the UNFCCC. It presents the greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory of the EC, the EC GHG inventory process and methods and GHG inventory data of its individual Member States for 1990-2000. The GHG inventory data of the EC MS...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the European Union have increased for the second consecutive year, moving the EU further away from meeting its commitment to achieve a substantial emissions cut by the 2008-2012 period.

One feature of the global economy in recent years has been the increasing number and importance of new investment funds (private equity (PE), hedge funds (HFs), and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)), which are sometimes referred to as alternative investment funds (AIFs). This increase has...

This report examines whether investment funds – in particular, private equity, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds – help to revive underperforming companies and thereby contribute to employment growth or whether, on the contrary, they strive to maximise financial returns at the expense...

The hedge fund industry has risen in 2007 to the top of the international political agenda, yet the debate surrounding it is limited by a lack of understanding of how the industry functions, or even how it is to be defined. The industry consists largely of investment funds operating from...