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This contrasts with the approach of some developing economies, which not only face more immediate environmental and social challenges, but also take a “developmental” view of the financial system’s role.
Mobile money and price information also enable pastoralists to adjust herd sizes to changing environmental conditions, while enabling farmers to secure seeds and fertilizer for future harvests.
But financial markets can also benefit society by providing positive gains to non-contracting parties, such as jobs, environmental sustainability, and improved security.
While the excessive risk-taking that caused the financial crisis has not yet done irreparable harm to the global economy on which we all depend, failure to reap public benefits from private investment – particularly in terms of environmental security – could jeopardize everything.
Indeed, by failing to channel our savings in ways that create an economy fit to serve a rapidly growing global population within environmental limitations, financial markets are shorting civilization as a whole.
Moreover, because Darfur is emblematic of wider difficulties in the world, the international community must look beyond the immediate circumstances of the conflict and increase efforts to deal with the threats that have played a role in the disaster, such as climate change and environmental degradation.
So the global nature of this problem must be recognized and addressed in places where environmental degradation is already bringing about a dangerous deterioration in peoples’ lives.
But such subsidies encourage profligate practices, accelerating water-resource depletion and environmental degradation.
Governments respond with increased subsidies on water and other resources, deepening the environmental challenges that exacerbate scarcity and lead to unrest.
As a result, economic rebalancing may be delayed by the more urgent need for environmental investment.
The sad fact is that by keeping oil prices high, OPEC is doing far more for environmental conservation than Western politicians who seek to prolong the era of ecologically unsustainable Western consumerism.
With a “sustainable-living strategy,” the consumer-goods company Unilever’s CEO, Paul Polson, has demonstrated how an environmental tilt can boost business.
From 2004 to 2012, clean-energy investment originating from non-OECD countries soared from $4.9 billion to $72.6 billion – almost half of the global total – presumably based on their recognition that decreased pollution implies vast environmental and health benefits.
At the same time, the Equator Principles offer companies a framework for considering the environmental and social risks of their investments.
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals set ambitious targets for lowering poverty, improving health and nutrition, expanding education, increasing gender equality, and ensuring environmental sustainability.
The information needed to understand social, environmental, and economic trends is generally produced by government statistics offices.
In Brazil, the central bank views the integration of environmental and social factors into risk management as a way to strengthen resilience.
And in countries like Singapore and South Africa, companies listed on the stock market are obligated to disclose their environmental and social performance, a requirement that investors and regulators increasingly view as essential to the efficient functioning of financial markets.
But they are set to be applied more broadly as financiers and regulators alike recognize the full consequences of environmental dislocation.
The real danger of the new stimulus package is not ideological but environmental.
Now, with the Party’s ability to manage the economy seemingly at stake, its stimulus package implies a green light to bypass environmental regulations if jobs or growth targets are in jeopardy.
Much of politics in China is local, but little of environmental protection is.
Nearly every industrial sector that, according to the stimulus package, deserves direct and immediate government support is energy-intensive and polluting (cement and steel, for example) or heavily managed by the state sector, and therefore missing incentives to balance growth with environmental protection (as is the case with the oil industry).
In the popular mind, science is blamed for deadly weapons and environmental pollution, even if the decisions to produce weapons are political, not scientific in nature, and the main reason for pollution is the profit motive, not scientific progress.
On one hand, he has been the “conscience of a liberal,” rightly focusing on how government can combat poverty, poor health, environmental degradation, rising inequality, and other social ills.
On the other hand, Americans are deeply frustrated with gaping holes in health care, education, equality of opportunity, infrastructure, and environmental protection – goods and services traditionally provided by government.
In late 2005, Mittal Steel, the world’s largest steel company, signed a $900 million deal with Liberia’s Transitional Government to mine iron ore, which many claim allowed Mittal to opt out of human rights and environmental law.
Global economic growth is also causing a burgeoning environmental crisis.
In short, the global economy is experiencing a sustainability crisis, in which resource constraints and environmental pressures are causing large price shocks and ecological instability.
He also brings impressive environmental credentials, addressing another of the Bank's central concerns.
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