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Earthen construction, an additional way to house the planet

Building locally using earth could be one solution to the construction needs of the world's population. Raw earth is available in many places on the planet and answers the major contemporary ecologica...

Beyond PPPs: the World Economic Forum Water Initiative, a Multi-stakeholder Approach

The World Economic Forum’s public-private water initiative in South Africa and India showed that “Brokerage Networks”, involving stakeholders across all sectors, proved successful in conceptualising,...

Meeting the challenge of funding the transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient societies

Current funding levels are insufficient to limit global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, despite resources such as some of the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms. For a successful transition to a lo...

Profitability and development hand in hand

A question frequently asked is whether profitability is the only criterion to be taken into consideration when private equity is evaluated. By itself, profitability is not an adequate basis on which t...

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