{"id":26527,"date":"2007-11-29T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:35:59","slug":"1527-climate-loan-will-spur-change-in-china-says-eib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/1527-climate-loan-will-spur-change-in-china-says-eib\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate loan will spur change in China, says EIB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 500 million Euro (US$743 million) loan was signed at EU-China meetings in Beijing this week, which concluded with both parties agreeing to a dialogue on issues including climate change and the value of China&#39;s currency.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s a financial help, but this can be also a demonstration effect,&quot; EIB president Philippe Maystadt was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If we can show that really these kind of projects work and generate indeed interesting results in terms of reductions of CO2 emissions,&quot; he added, &quot;I think this can be quite useful.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/PEK363052.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"467\" src=\"\/UserFiles\/Image\/Euro(1).jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/dannyman\/10443418\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dannyman<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Investment Bank hopes its loan to help China fight climate change will have a &quot;demonstration effect&quot; that could spur more green projects, Reuters quoted the bank&#39;s president as saying on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-26527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Climate loan will spur change in China, says EIB | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The European Investment Bank hopes its loan to help China fight climate change will have a &quot;demonstration effect&quot; 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