But some businesses have already shown that, despite scepticism among some governments, they can be a driving force in development, helping to achieve social and environmental ends that governments and community groups are unable to deliver alone.
Many have found new ways to work with governments and NGOs in pursuit of social and environmental ends, partnerships that can be boosted by new financial instruments, such as social impact bonds or investments in social businesses.
People are demanding a better world, one in which the goods and services provided by government or private initiative fulfil social and environmental ends.Is it fair to say that the government misunderstood the message of the streets, then?
Mr. Pivo said there had been no empirical studies showing the effectiveness of green building funds, which are still only a fraction of the entire universe of property funds, in achieving environmental ends, though he said they should prove beneficial.
Polls often cited as evidence of broad support for environmental goals, they note, also show that support to be extremely shallow, making it difficult to persuade people to give up things they enjoy or need — cheap gasoline, jobs in industries like coal mining or logging — in order to advance environmental ends.
We must work to end environmental destruction, which affects communities of color at disproportionately high rates.
Physical and environmental stimuli (end-over-end shaking, pH, and buffer concentration) were similar for both the protein adsorption and release experiments.
Thus, in theory, several means existed at the start of the HPV program to satisfy the health and environmental effects end points requiring animal data while also meeting the goal of minimal animal use in testing.
