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TRANSFORMATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
United Nations Natural resources represent a large share of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to the Asia-Pacific region. Covered in this study are oil, gas, mining, hydropower, and large tract plantations such as palm oil and rubber (but not agriculture). This study provides a review of the issues, challenges, instruments and tools related to responsible business and sustainable FDI in the natural resources sector in the Asia-Pacific region. The ultimate objective of the study is to promote FDI that brings a satisfactory return on investment for the business or investor and a positive social return on investment for the host country whilst ensuring environmental sustainability.
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Responsible Business and Sustainable Investment in the Natural Resources Sector in Asia and the Pacific
Publication Date: May 2016 ISBN: 9789211207224
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Transformations for Sustainable Development
Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Asia and the Pacific United Nations This report underlines that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will only be achieved when key Asia-Pacific megatrends are managed in a way that creates opportunities for achieving sustainable development outcomes. It supports national and regional efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda. Regional megatrends such as urbanization, trade and economic integration and rising consumption and changing consumption patterns are already shaping the future patterns of resource use, and defining who will be the ‘winners’ and who will be the ‘losers’. It examines the critical determinants of the relationship between the economy, people and nature as targets for a fundamental transformation – social justice, resource efficiency, investment flows and economic structures. Publication Date: May 2016 ISBN: 9789211207088
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Valuing Waste, Transforming Cities United Nations ‘Valuing Waste, Transforming Cities’ provides guidance, lessons and recommendations on how to accomplish the paradigm shift from viewing waste as a problem to a valuable resource. It explores a low-cost, lowtechnology, community-based and decentralized waste-to-resource model called the ‘integrated resource recovery centre’. The publication articulates key lessons learned by ESCAP and its partners in establishing integrated resource recovery centres across cities in Asia and the Pacific since 2009. These lessons are grouped around four important areas for waste-to-resource initiatives: (i) partnerships; (ii) awareness raising and behaviour change; (iii) facilities management and operational performance; and (iv) replication and scaling up.
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Publication Date: May 2016 ISBN: 9789211207200
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