COMMITMENT WITHOUT FUNDING REPRESENTS UNFULFILLED GOOD INTENTIONS. IF NUTRITION-PROMOTING ACTIONS ARE TO BE IMPLEMENTED AND TARGETS MET, they need to be financed. Financing for nutrition comes from governments (domestic), from international sources—the bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and foundations that make up the “donor” community—and from people themselves.
ON JUNE 8, 2013, THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND BRAZIL, AND THE CHILDREN’S INVESTMENT FUND FOUNDATION (CIFF) HOSTED A SUMMIT IN London titled “Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger through Business and Science” (known as N4G). The objective of the summit was to mark a “seminal declaration by leaders to scale up political commitment, increase resources, and take urgent action on nutrition” (United Kingdom 2013, 1).
Australia, with the United Kingdom, led developed countries to deliver a roadmap to meeting the collective goal of mobilizing US$100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020. The roadmap aims to provide increased predictability and transparency about how the goal will be reached, and it sets out the range of actions developed countries will take to meet it.
This paper investigates how leases are evolving to become “greener” in the United Kingdom and Australia. The authors provide evidence from five varied sources including (1) UK office and retail leases, (2) retail sector energy management in the UK, (3) a major UK retailer case study, (4) office leasing in Sydney and (5) expert interviews on Australian retail leases. With some exceptions, the evidence reveals an increasing trend towards green leases in prime offices in both countries, but not in retail or sub-prime offices.
Business technology transfer strategy for the identification, selection, acquisition, adoption and assimilation of sustainable technologies, enabling them to better compete in the markets.
A small-scale approach to making wheels using a jig
Banana beer is made from bananas, mixed with a cereal flour (often sorghum flour) and fermented to make an alcoholic beverage.
Reglas para fabricantes de ladrillos y trabajadores de campo para aumentar la eficiencia del proceso de quema de ladrillos
Causeways are a strong, low-cost means of river crossing.