Instead, they hope Rent-to-Own will be part of an ecosystem of financing approaches that unlock the potential of rural entrepreneurs.

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But we're also in an era of fiscal constraint, which means that we've got to start finding more creative, new approaches to financing these projects.

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At the Camp David summit, the G8 also commissioned the World Bank to investigate ways to integrate reduction of short-lived climate pollutants into its activities and asked the Bank to convene experts to evaluate new approaches to financing projects to reduce methane.

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Exciting new strategies and approaches have streamlined data logging, encouraged fit-for-purpose engineering, and bred innovative financing strategies aimed towards developing the untapped resource in the built environment.

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