22. Stresses the need to enhance private sector involvement in green infrastructure investments and calls on the Commission and the EIB to quickly establish and make operational a financing facility including innovative financing mechanisms to support green infrastructure investments and other natural capital-related projects, while also assessing real and long-term support for ecosystem functions; points out that further financing sources at local, regional and national level will also need to be explored;

15. Supports increased transparency of decision-making on investments of European public money, namely in projects of the EIB and the EBRD which may have an adverse impact on human rights; urges the EIB and the EBRD to strengthen their anti-fraud and anti-corruption policies in order to ensure full transparency of investments outside of the European Union; stresses the need for the EIB and the EBRD to affirm their willingness to avoid risky investments, especially through financial intermediaries, and to adopt a risk-based approach and improved assessments of the human righ ...[+++]ts impact of the projects they support, in addition to conducting sound human rights and integrity due diligence of all of their clients’ operations; takes the view that particular attention should be paid to ensuring public participation, as well as free prior and informed consultation of communities affected, at all stages of the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects financed; urges the Member States and the Commission to use their influence as exclusive members of the EIB, and as major shareholders of the EBRD, to foster significant reform of these institutions to allow greater democratic scrutiny of their decisions and accountability;

(Return tabled) Question No. 611 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to the government’s plans for resource development, as described in the section entitled “Responsible Resource Development” in Chapter 3.2 of Budget 2012: (a) what are all examples of federal environmental laws that are stronger than provincial laws and how will the proposed legislative changes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) affect the assessment of environmental impacts of industrial projects that cross provincial borders; (b) what research, action, or investment has the g ...[+++]overnment undertaken to study impacts of the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA on (i) regulatory decision-making, (ii) risk of project-specific and cumulative environmental impacts, (iii) risk mitigation by developers, (iv) Canada’s reputation; (c) what briefing notes, memos, or any other documentation, including, for each, the details of its findings and recommendations, have been provided to the Prime Minister, Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of the Environment, their respective Parliamentary Secretaries, their respective Deputy Ministers, and their respective staff members, regarding impacts of the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA on (i) regulatory decision-making, (ii) risk of project-specific and cumulative environmental impacts, (iii) mitigation by developers, (iv) Canada’s reputation; (d) will the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA give any consideration to (i) measuring negative impacts of development, (ii) managing negative impacts of development; (e) by what date will the government bring forth new “legislation to streamline the review process for major economic projects” (Budget 2012, p. 89); (f) what are the projected costs of changes to the CEAA for each province and territory; (g) what assessments of the adequacy of the environmental assessment process in each province and territory have been conducted, (i) what were the dates of any such assessments, (ii) what wer ...

Then the other partners of that project would have to come with the other 60%, be it the individual university or the university with the provincial government.

In the light of the European Council Thessaloniki conclusions, which “took note of the Commission's intention to launch an initiative in cooperation with the European Investment Bank to support growth and integration by increasing overall investment and private sector involvement in TENs and major RD projects and in this context invites the Italian Presidency to pursue this further”, and in the light of the Programme of the Italian Presidency for the Ecofin, the Council invites the Commission in cooperation with the EIB, inter alia ta ...[+++]king into account the work of the high level group on transport TENs chaired by Karel Van Miert, to conduct a needs assessment and make proposals for a programme to support growth and integration by improving and/or increasing the overall investment and private sector involvement in TENs and RD projects. The Council mandates the EFC to prepare an assessment of this analysis, paying particular attention to the following aspects:

THE COUNCIL CALLS UPON THE COMMISSION 1. to facilitate industrial cooperation with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe by supporting the development of a climate and a regulatory framework favourable to enterprises and to inter- enterprise agreements; to that end, and in order to overcome barriers to industrial cooperation and to greater integration in the European economy, the following are deemed priorities: (a) increased support for those countries to improve the framework conditions for investment, and in particular transparency and legal security for investors, and the alignment of investment protection rules on those obtai ...[+++]ning within the Community; (b) technical assistance for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to take over the acquis communautaire on competition, which is a necessary condition for setting up an internal market and developing trade and industrial investment; (c) increased technical assistance to bring standards and conformity evaluation procedures into line with those in force within the Community, including environmental protection standards, in particular by encouraging the CCEE to join the relevant international standardization organizations; (d) a significant increase in the organization of round tables between Community and East European industrialists on technological and market trends to boost the development of industrial cooperation; (e) a special effort to strengthen scientific and technological cooperation, particularly in terms of the information society and to improve links between research and industrial development in those countries; 2. to promote cooperation between industrial operators by means of flanking and support measures for the implementation of projects, namely: (a) development of management training initiatives carried out in particular by Community industrial operators, notably for East European company executives; (b) increased support for feasibility and profitability studies of specific pr ...