Unconventional monetary policies – differences between the BOJ and ECB  I would now like to examine differences in monetary-easing policies (Chart 2). A. Background to the ECB’s adoption of a negative deposit facility rate  The ECB adopted its first negative deposit rate of minus 0.1 percent in June 2014, followed by minus 0.2 percent the following September.
Historically economic growth has gone hand in hand with emissions growth and resource usage. The problem is that in order for our planet to survive, we need to separate economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions growth. Another piece of good news is that this is not impossible, as the case of reduced emissions from production in the Nordic countries proves.