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Financial issues of Agenda 21

Author
various authors
Date
1996
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-059529)
Publisher | Place of publication
United Nations | New York, NY, USA
Pages
244 p.
Conference name | place | date
Third Expert Group Meeting on Financial Issues of Agenda 211 | Manila | 19960206 -19960208
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Financing Development agencies and aid Technology transfer
Abstract

Contents: Session I: Promoting private sector investment in sustainable development 1. Financing sustainable development: Enhancing the private sector role World Bank 2. Promoting private sector financing for sustainable development 3. A note on financing sustainable development: Focus on the industry and energy sectors and private participation Session II: Environmental funds: Potential and limitation in developing countries 4. Environmental funds in developing and transition economies 5. Financing environmentally sound development in Asia and the Pacific: Need for a regional funding mechanism Session III: Implementing environmentally friendly economic instruments 6. The contribution of economic instruments in the environmental policy of OECD countries 7. The scope for fiscal mitigation of environmental problems 8. Subsidies and sustainable development Session IV: Financing of technology transfer: The role of innovative mechanisms and partnerships 9. Financing the transfer of environmental technology 10. IETC approaches to financing technology transfer of environmentally sound technologies Session V: Innovative international financial mechanisms 11. The scope for economic instruments for mitigating global environmental problems 12. Financing environmentally sound development 13. New and innovative sources of financing: And evaluation of the Tobin Tax Session VI: Mobilizing domestic and external finance: Matrix of policy options and instruments 14. Matrix of policy options and financial instruments