The Environmental Audit Committee said the institution had to be able to raise additional capital from investors.
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The Environmental Audit committee has now finished hearing evidence and is set to report in the Summer.
The Environmental Audit Committee (at 2.15pm) edges closer to delivering a verdict on whether neonicotinoid pesticides should be banned.
The Bank now involves non-governmental organisations in many of its decisions and conducts an environmental audit of most of its policies.
And the Environmental Audit Committee looks at protecting the Arctic (at 2.15pm).
This one was convened by the UK parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) and the Hard Rain project, which documents environmental and social issues through photography.
And the Environmental Audit Committee is looking at "protecting the Arctic" (at 2.15pm) after the government rejected calls for stricter controls on oil drilling and mineral extraction.
Speaking to the House of Commons environmental audit committee yesterday, the company's Dr Julian Little said that Europe was in danger of "enshrining some sort of museum agriculture".
And Environment Minister Lord de Mauley is back before the Environmental Audit Committee (at 2.15pm) as it continues its long investigation into the effect of neonicitinoid pesticides on pollinating insects.
He made his comments while giving evidence to the Commons Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry into how the UN Kyoto Protocol will progress after the current period for emission targets ends in 2012.
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Across in Westminster Hall there are debates on two recent select committee reports - Environmental Audit Committee on Protecting the Arctic and the Defence Select Committee report on Future of Maritime Surveillance.
His invitation follows complaints that he had not been prepared to appear before the Environmental Audit Committee, to talk about his role as the UK representative in the recent climate change talks in Rio.
Topping the bill on the committee corridor is the joint appearance, at the Environmental Audit Committee, of the DEFRA Secretary, Caroline Spelman, and the machinery of government supremo, Oliver Letwin, to discuss the extent to which sustainability is built into government decision-making (at 1pm).
And as the Environmental Audit Committee (at 2.15pm) prepares to give its view on whether neonicotinoid pesticides should be banned, the German chemical giant Bayer is summoned back to Parliament to explain inconsistencies in its previous evidence on how long they can linger in the environment.
The Energy and Climate Change Committee (at 9am) looks into energy prices, profits and poverty with a series of academics and the Environmental Audit Committee (at 10.30am) has its first evidence session on "well-being", a policy approach which attempts to apply the idea of natural capital, to public policy making.
The Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is before the Environmental Audit Committee, talking about Carbon Budgets, and Work and Pensions Minister Maria Miller will be giving evident to the Work and Pensions Committee on the new Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission - the replacement for the now defunct Child Support Agency.
The complex runs completely on solar power, courtesy of 150 Sanyo solar panels that provide round-the-clock electricity. ("We fire up the generator once a month just to see if it works, " Derek Joubert says.) Construction materials were chosen through an environmental audit: The furniture is made from Indonesian mahogany uprooted by the 2004 tsunami.
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