The GreenTech 21st Century Master Fund focused on companies engaged in alternative energy, clean technologies, environmental infrastructure and services, agricultural and natural resources.
That, in turn, has led to a reduced cost of capital, making investments in new infrastructure and environmental controls less costly.
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However, more steps are needed, such as to cut down the delays in environmental clearances and improving infrastructure for reducing power shortages, it said.
Of the rest, 80% is earmarked for spending on education, health, rural development, infrastructure, environmental and water management, and 5% is to be spent in the oil-producing region.
It said these local difficulties ranged from substandard infrastructure and weak environmental regulatory regimes, to acute talent shortages and underdeveloped governance practices.
Expect that to change over the next few years as the U.S. and other governments scale up investments in the environmental monitoring systems and data infrastructure assets.
These include America's embargo on backing loans from the World Bank, which would impose higher environmental and other standards on big infrastructure projects such as Myitsone.
Environmental organizations have created a vast organizational infrastructure since the 1970s and remain a huge presence in Washington.
MEPs were united in demanding "earmarking" of the revenues, to ensure that member states invest in improving the environmental standards of vehicles and develop alternative transport infrastructure.
"The cost of renewable energy is up front slightly higher than conventional, but when you implement full infrastructure cost and the cost of environmental pollution you end up being the same or higher, " said McNeilly.
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It is a strategy that holds promise as a smarter way to reduce infrastructure development costs, protect human and environmental health, and create jobs.
The solutions have potentially huge cascading effects: Obviously, a more pedestrian-friendly infrastructure leads to fewer cars and less environmental pollution, but it also creates more opportunities for physical activity and socialization and, therefore, healthier and happier populations.
Through the Presidential Memorandum, the President directed agencies to expedite environmental reviews and permit decisions for a selection of high priority infrastructure projects that will create a significant number of jobs, have already identified necessary funding, and where the significant steps remaining before construction are within the control and jurisdiction of the federal government and can be completed within 18 months.
How can we expect anyone to invest in industrial infrastructure until the government has a more sensible approach to enforcing environmental standards?
Cespa is the environmental services subsidiary of Ferrovial Servicios, the world's largest private transportation infrastructure investor.
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Its ten-item list of priorities covers everything from grain-procurement prices (up) to the corporate-tax burden imposed by VAT (down), taking in infrastructure, post-earthquake reconstruction, health care, education and environmental protection.
For once, we believed that we would have what Hastings needed - and still needs - so badly, an infrastructure that would enhance people's lives and livelihoods, reduce environmental pollution and improve the health of those thousands of people who live on the A259 trunk road.
The government normally spends most of its budget on infrastructure, such as the new airport, roads, port facilities and environmental improvements.
Environmental and regulatory issues abound, not to mention the need for billions in new infrastructure to make practical use of the finds.
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Like many other tropical resort destinations, development in the Mayan Riviera happened so fast that infrastructure, the ability to treat wastewater and the legal framework to ensure environmental protection has lagged behind.
"We are not opposed to the need for higher speed rail per se and fully acknowledge the need for strategic improvement to the national rail infrastructure, but cannot agree with the current proposals as the economic and environmental benefits are not at all credible, " it said.
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Otherwise the national government will continue to expand turf over telecommunications, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, nanotechnology, energy, banking, health care, hiring, environmental hazards and much else.
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When asked about where he sees opportunities as a global investor, aside from being bullish on telecom, Slim said that industries ripe for investment include housing, infrastructure, mining, food, oil, energy, medicine and ones that provide environmental solutions.
"Future environmental and economic success will be determined by sustained investment in new technology, research and development, infrastructure and consumer incentives, " said SMMT's chief executive, Paul Everitt.
In developing its infrastructure program for Africa, the African Development Bank has run carbon cost scenarios and used environmental and social sustainability as part of its selection criteria.
Building new pipeline infrastructure is time consuming and involves a lot of uncertainty due to regulatory approvals and scrutiny from environmental groups.
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At least one state infrastructure official said this week that lack of funds, lack of land, general lawlessness and environmental policy were hindering investment in railway development.
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Then peers turn to the committee stage of the Antarctic Bill - a private member's bill from the Commons dealing with environmental safeguards in Antarctica, followed by the first of three days devoted to the report stage of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill.
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