or manipulation -
“Quite clearly, there was a culture here that tolerated – if it didn’t encourage – this sort of behaviour,” Mr Alistair Darling said “The FSA needs to carry out a further investigation to find out who was responsible for this, who knew what was going on, as well as to track those people who manipulated or attempted to manipulate the figures."
“Because until that’s done confidence won’t be restored.”- elsewhere in the Daily Telegraph -
Damian Reece makes his "What IS - IS - & sure ain't NO ISER" comment ...
Tobacco companies have had new behaviour forced upon them – a ban on advertising and smoking in public places for instance. Banks risk this in the form of yet more red tape, which would be counterproductive to the economy as a whole.
But they are now isolated and have few if any advocates – beyond this newspaper.
The reason this column still defends banks, yes even now, is because banking, unlike smoking, fulfils a social use and is central to wider wealth creation. But banks have forgotten their very real responsibilities to society (customers) in favour of owing responsibilities first to themselves and second to shareholders.
Banks' response to this latest scandal should be to find a clear and lasting solution to how they inculcate their organisations with the right priorities. That would be of more use than swapping one banker for another in the boardroom – and certainly of greater urgency for the good of banking and the wider economy.
Banks must use this scandal to refocus on their responsibility to society
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C Special Report on 1.5°C reinforced the scientific imperative, and earlier this year it called a climate “code red.” [NOW], at the midpoint of Glasgow, [IT] IS clear there is a massive credibility, action and commitment gap that casts a long and dark shadow of doubt over the net zero goals put forward by more than 140 countries, covering 90% of global emissions.
Policy implementation on the ground is advancing at a snail’s pace. Under current policies, we estimate end-of-century warming to be 2.7°C. While this temperature estimate has fallen since our September 2020 assessment, major new policy developments are not the driving factor. We need to see a profound effort in in all sectors, in this decade, to decarbonise the world to be in line with 1.5°C. Targets for 2030 remain totally inadequate: the current 2030 targets (without long-term pledges) put us on track for a 2.4°Ctemperatureincreasebytheendofthecentury.Since the April 2021 Biden Leaders’ Summit, our standard “pledges and targets” scenario temperature estimate of all NDCs and submitted or binding long-term targets has dropped by 0.3°C to 2.1°C, but this improvement is due primarily to the inclusion of the US and China’s net zero targets, now that both countries have submitted their long-term strategies to the UNFCCC.
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Added by Michael Grove at 11:43 on November 10, 2021
now
thought to be one of the most remarkable and
significant finds of its kind in Britain.
Never forgetting the influence that was manifested
by the legacy which the Romans left the isles of
our 'Land of TIN' Britannia with !!! • much more
so, I would suggest than the land of ROME which
has now been subsumed by the so-called idl of
the supposed European Union.
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Added by Michael Grove at 10:13 on November 25, 2021
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