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... of financial markets in sustainable development was little understood andwidely ... By incorporating environmental, social and governance criteria into their ... to theimportance of environmental and social issues. The combined support of the UN

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The Ecological Footprint (EF) is a method for estimating the biologically productive area necessary to support current consumption patterns, given prevailing technical and economic processes. By allowing to compare human impact to the planet's limited biop

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An article on microentrepreneurship in the Phillipines, in PDF format. pp.1-13 of this magazine.

... can be put at the center of development, not just as a rhetoricalflourish but ... Brown, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Activist Van Jones brings green opportunities to the streets of Oakland

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