Green shoot rating 3 out of 5 Mergers and acquisitions have been all but non-existent since the credit crunch took hold, but figures from the Zephyr database, which tracks such activity, shows the value of deals in the first three months of this year up 40% on 2008 levels to £214bn.
With a group of eight others, including the Guardian's Larry Elliot, I have co-authored a proposal for a Green New Deal to tackle what is, in reality, a 'triple crunch': economic recession, accelerating climate change, and rising oil prices underpinned by an encroaching peak in oil production.
There is no charitable way to crunch the numbers.
Mr Trimble defeated South Belfast MP the Rev Martin Smyth by 457 to 348 votes, 56% to 43%, in a crunch secret ballot of the party's ruling council in the King's Hall, Belfast.
A global deal to cut carbon emissions at a crunch UN summit in December could leave some fossil fuel reserves unburnable and worthless.
The Moscow talks come as Athens scrambles to deal with a credit crunch that has sparked feverish speculation of an imminent default.
Times and attitudes may have moved on but I don't quite see that translating into major change when it comes to the crunch on polling day especially in such a tight contest".
The EU plan, endorsed by ministers on Monday in Brussels, will see 90,000 diplomats in over 3,000 missions lobbying to win new pledges on carbon cuts from countries ahead of a crunch UN climate summit in Paris this December.
The next five years will be critical in the international fight to combat global warming, starting with a crunch UN summit in December, and David Cameron is very clear that action is needed.
The Resolution Foundation avoids sketching out what the human implications of this consumer credit crunch might be, but they're not hard to infer: red-letter bills, forced sales of homes, and a rise in repossessions.
This is seen as a crunch conference, because it will lay out the world's response to climate change for decades to come, and could determine whether the world avoids the worst ravages of global warming, which are already being felt.
