All good stuff, but how do you get the private sector to play ball?
None of this will be good for financial profits.As economies become more sophisticated, one would expect the financial sector to play a bigger role.
The report sounds the alarm bell for the need to tackle climate change and for the transport sector to play its role.
It is fair, given its role in precipitating the economic crisis, to look to the largest and most profitable industry in the world — the financial sector — to play its part.
At the same time, the administration is looking for ways to get the private sector to play a role in the city's recovery at a time when a looming budget gap is hampering big ideas.
"If we want to solve a lot of our big social and environmental problems, we need the private sector to play a role because it dominates our economy and [fixing] those problems requires scale".
The government must "match its rhetoric with action" if it wants the voluntary sector to play a bigger part in the delivery of public services, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations' chief executive, Stuart Etherington, has said.
We want the private sector to play a part [in education], and as a result of that we have private sector representatives on our governing bodies, we have private sector people mentoring our headteachers and we are open to sharing best practices.
The central bank might take its eye off the ball: say, because soaring commodity prices are muddling the macroeconomic picture.Or the central bank could convince itself that allowing financial losses in a troubled sector to play out is the price one has to pay to prevent moral hazard.
It also means adopting and enforcing rules that restrict the flow of funds into speculation and encourage the financial sector to play the constructive role in our economy that it should, by providing capital to establish new firms and enable successful companies to expand.
