Sustainable development in theory and in practice: What role for development finance institutions?
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Efforts by scientists, civil society and some politicians to sound the alarm on the threats of global warming, climate change, biodiversity damages, endemics and, more broadly, all environmental issues, seem to have resulted in an increasingly shared consensus about the need for action. Yet, such action has been particularly slow in coming and has not so far resulted in any “environmental New Deal”. Sustainable development policies that have been implemented appear to be a drop in the bucket when compared to the risks and their probability to occur.
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