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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

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However, developing countries may not be able to take advantage of these opportunities unless their national governments and the international community take decisive action. Developing countries must capture more of the value being created in this technological revolution to grow their economies.”

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A Cure for the Common Company

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The widespread presence of soda, along with visual cues, product placement, and financial incentive (at the time, a soda cost less than the same size bottle of water) were all contributing to a culture of unhealthy nutrition and making it easier for our workforce to accept that drinking soda was the norm. It was served at our meetings.

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The Anatomy Of A Business Angel

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While angel investors obviously bring much-needed finance, they also bring a lot of knowledge, experience, and contacts to any new venture. As such, their motivation is often different from that of other providers of finance, with intrinsic factors more to the fore and a strong desire to build new businesses what drives them.

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Can All Employees Handle Intense Work?

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However, work intensity driven by explicit or implicit incentives, such as the desire to earn a bonus, reflects greater autonomy. This pattern has been observed across occupations, from gas-station employees to members of a finance-sector trade union.

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Sustainable Investment Funds Can Encourage Worse Behavior

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Consequently, subjecting brown firms to punitive measures through costly financing inadvertently steers them away from potential investments in innovative green technologies capable of mitigating emissions. Alternatively, investors could direct funds to firms that are developing innovative green technologies, such as carbon dioxide removal.

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How Our Current Office Shock Can Lead to a Climate-Positive “Officeverse”

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Climate-Positive Offices In the corporate real estate industry, Duffy argued that the root cause of climate abuse by offices is the office supply chain and its incentives. Finance and development providers should be rewarded for sustainably managing what exists already, rather than pursuing new ventures.

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Business Model Innovation Will Be Key To Emerge From Covid Well

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“We propose that recent developments in digital technology offers the opportunity to accelerate productivity growth through business model innovation. For instance, they argue that tax schemes could be designed to encourage firms to jointly apply for finance to encourage coordination within and across industries.