That is how the trio founded Tresalia ("tres aliadas" or three allies) and started investing in sectors with high growth potential such as technology infrastructure, telecommunications, real estate development and land reserves.
The expert working group will begin with the perspective that geological resources are an important element of development and that biosphere reserves are much more than just protected areas.
Taking into consideration the complexity of museum-reserves and their role in the development of cultural and ecological tourism, during the Thematic Regional Training the following issues were discussed: improvement of cooperation forms between museum-reserves in CIS countries, effective use of museum-reserves and the role of museum-reserves as factors of regional economic development.
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If wood had not become scarce in Europe as a fuel we would never have dug for coal and developed the understanding which allows development of oil and gas reserves.
This accelerated development will add significant production and reserves for Pioneer while enhancing shareholder value.
Kitts-Nevis National MAB Committee has a key role and functions including, Advocacy and support of sustainable development, promotion and monitoring of scientific research, planning and management of Biosphere reserves, approval of Biosphere Reserve Proposals, capacity development of the local communities in resource management and environmental protection, the conservation of biological diversity.
Adequate cash reserves can help fund research and development, make dividend payments, buy shares back, entice buyout offers or even acquire other firms.
In large part, the onus of providing adequate oil and gas supplies will be on those countries that have the reserves but are not allowing their development, either at all or at economic levels.
Examples of how the Conventions contribute to development include the UNESCO designated sites, such as the nearly 1000 World Heritage properties and over 500 Biosphere Reserves, which provide ideal laboratories where innovative heritage-driven approaches to sustainable development are tested.
Transdisciplinary science should play a role in such arrangements and lessons learnt from biosphere reserves should be used to foster sustainable development through applied science.
There is some guarded optimism that things may gradually be changing for the better, thanks largely to the development of Turkmenistan's huge oil and gas reserves.
Given the size of the prize and technical complexity of producing value from efficiency reserves, a new breed of energy development comparable to the oil and gas industry has begun to take shape.
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The war chests of reserves could be used to boost domestic financial development.
As the MAB-ICC prepares for its 24th session, we will present other examples of successful sustainable development initiatives that are currently being tested and implemented in biosphere reserves.
Biosphere Reserves are thus sites for experimenting with and learning about sustainable development.
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Biosphere Reserves are thus sites for experimenting with and learning about sustainable development, particularly during the on-going UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).
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Jack Lavin, head of Illinois's economic development agency, liked to say his state has more energy in its coal reserves than Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have in their oil.
New technologies allow for the vast development of the Athabasca tar sands in Alberta, helping make Canada's oil reserves the world's second largest.
However, although the General Conference adopted this document and a Statutory Framework for the WNBR 20 years ago, many Biosphere Reserves have not yet made the transition from conservation sites to sites for sustainable development.
Mobilise extra-budgetary financial resources for the project activities for the consolidation of all UNESCO activities linked to biodiversity conservation, ecosystem and protected area management using the biosphere reserves in the region as experimental sites for research and learning sites for sustainable development.
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This Strategy recognised the evolution of Biosphere Reserves from sites focussing on nature conservation and research, to sites of excellence for sustainable development.
While Africa is a continent rich in resources, with 12% of the world's oil reserves and 42% of its gold, we cannot follow too narrow a path to development.
It has to have a stable, trustworthy government that is carrying out a set of constant development reforms that bring in new industries, reform the banking sector and have a good amount of foreign currency reserves in order to pay for foreign obligations and protect against attacks on their currencies.
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