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No sector of our economy will have a greater impact on the movement for sustainable development than road transport. |
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Read more... [Road transport and the environment (24 May 1996)]
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To be sure, the transition to sustainable development will produce both winners and losers. But the winners will be those who are leading the process of change and the losers will be those who lag it and are left behind. |
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Read more... [Sustainable Development: winners and losers (26 March 1996)]
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Over the years all governments have developed a series of direct and indirect subsidies to various sectors of the economy - from energy, agriculture, transport, and resource development, to name but a few. While these were designed to serve purposes unrelated to their environmental impacts, it is now clear that many of them. amounting to literally hundreds of billions of dollars, provide de facto subsidies to practices that are environmentally destructive and unsustainable. |
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Read more... [Business and Sustainable Development (26 March 1996)]
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The profound changes laking place in the new South, provide hath new imperatives and new opportunities to forge a new set of cooperative global relationships which move beyond outmoded, traditional notions of north and south. They must take into account both the shift of economic growth and political weight towards the new South as well as the continuing entrenchment of dire and debilitating poverty.
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Read more... [The "new south" - key to a sustainable future (8 September 1995)]
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Nuclear power will continue to be an important component of our electricity supply for the foreseeable future. But whether this will be on a diminishing or increasing scale will depend on the capacity of the industry to resolve public concerns over environment, health and safety risks and to compete successfully with alternative sources.
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Read more... [Nuclear power, competition and sustainable development (8 September 1995)]
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Our experience over the past quarter century has demonstrated that solutions are available, or can be found, when there is a clear political will for concerted action through a combination of policies, regulations and incentives. Even the most local of solutions must be applied in a global context. |
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Read more... [Environmental Stewardship And The New Parochialism (5 August 1995)]
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