All told, Lynes said it took 10 months to build a business case, gain approval and hit enterprise deployment of SAP EHS Management.

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Both public and public investors would clearly be willing to scale up biodiversity finance if they could build a stronger business case for doing so.

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Take, for example, a manufacturing organization trying to build the business case to invest in implementing software to track their internal carbon footprint.

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The DoD has historically funded technology development and infrastructure build out that no commercial enterprise would have been able to make a business case to justify.

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Instead, cities should build from whatever assets they have at hand and make a new kind of business case for investment, from within and without.

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