Talk about sustainable investment, no one is interested.

The importance of aid notwithstanding, trade and investment were pivotal for ensuring sustainable development.

In that regard, the Bank was spearheading efforts to develop an appropriate investment framework for clean energy and sustainable development and identify pragmatic investment and financing options.

Ongoing activities include the development of standards and recommendations in sustainable transport, promotion of energy efficient technology and energy efficient investment projects and promotion of sustainable forest management.

The key to reducing poverty was sustainable development strategies that included investment in rural areas and social services.

Also outlined are options for St. Helena to generate sustainable wealth through internal investment, tourism, exports and import substitution.

(e) Investment in disaster risk reduction thus enhances sustainable development and enables humanitarian assistance capacity to be applied more effectively

Increased investment in environmentally sustainable water, sanitation and human settlements programmes has multiple dividends benefiting women, the poor and the environment.

How can developing countries take full advantage of the clean development mechanism to attract investment and achieve national sustainable development objectives?

As a result, there is often too little incentive for investment in sustainable forest management when compared with other land uses or other sectors.

If sustainable forest management is to compete successfully for resources, strong domestic strategic decisions and policy measures are needed to create an attractive investment environment.

In that way, we can make investment and social spending sustainable in the medium and long term and thereby reduce our dependence on external resources.

Mr. Sunaga (Japan) said that promoting trade and investment was the key to achieving sustainable growth because it created job opportunities and sources of income.

The Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) initiative for poverty reduction, adopted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) aims to facilitate and increase investment and business activities that have a positive impact on sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals.

It is not sustainable to provide food assistance for millions of people year after year without making the necessary investment to get out of the situation.

The financial resources required for achieving sustainable forest management are often beyond the capacity of Governments, and there is an increasing need for private sector investment.

We have long recognized that export trade is the most sustainable source of resources for development as well as the best stimulant to investment and employment.

UNCTAD's BioTrade Initiative supports sustainable development through trade and investment in biological resources in line with the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Properly targeted public investment can do much to boost economic performance, generating aggregate demand quickly, fueling productivity growth by improving human capital, encouraging technological innovation, and spurring private sector investment by increasing returns. Though public investment cannot fix a large demand shortfall overnight, it can accelerate the recovery and establish more sustainable growth patterns.

(h) Create enabling environments to encourage private sector investment, as well as investment by and involvement of local and indigenous communities, other forest users and forest owners and other relevant stakeholders, in sustainable forest management, through a framework of policies, incentives and regulations

Many ESG factors come into play when evaluating sustainable investment options. For example, the Generation Foundation the think tank of Generation Investment Management (on whose advisory board I serve) identifies 17 environmental factors, 16 social factors, and 12 governance factors relevant to sustainability.

Savings must be channeled to firms that need capital for innovation and sustainable job creation. Today, however, the quality of corporate governance frameworks worldwide is challenged by the growing complexity of investment chains and the dominance of passive and short term investment strategies.

Bonilla Garcia, A. and J. V. Gruat (2003). Social Protection A Life Cycle Continuum Investment for Social Justice, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development. Geneva International Labour Office.

A strong global partnership was needed in order to reverse negative trends, accelerate growth and sustainable development, reform national policies, and achieve greater infrastructural and social investment.

In addition, SADC is focusing on increasing sustainable agricultural financing and investment in line with the African Union Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security of July 2003.

6 A. Bonilla Garcia and J. V. Gruat, Social Protection A Life Cycle Continuum Investment for Social Justice, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development (Geneva, International Labour Office, 2003).

In carrying out these functions, the secretariat should ensure synergies between its GGIP programme and other related activities of the Division and its work on investment policies, especially the investment policy reviews, which will help to ensure that the impact of such programmes is sustainable.

Reaffirming the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, which recognizes sustainable debt financing as an important element for mobilizing resources for public and private investment,

It had made great efforts to incorporate the Millennium Development Goals into its national economic plan, which stressed sustainable development through increased local investment, structural changes with value added, enhancement of sectoral linkages, competitive markets, and intensive investment in human capital, capacity development, and administrative organization.

Under the circumstance that is lack of more sustainable investment growth to boost economic growth potential, current fiscal policy driven growth will be unsustainable, Economist Barclays indicated in a research report.

Spain is also engaging with highly indebted middle income countries in projects to swap debt for public investment in key areas for sustainable human development, such as education, the environment and infrastructure.

In order to achieve sustainable and equitable development, a number of things must be in place respect for human rights and the rule of law strong democratic institutions investment in women's and girl's empowerment an enabling environment for private enterprise and foreign investment effective measures against corruption transparency and good governance.

Recalling the commitments of Governments to, inter alia, promoting broad access to appropriate housing financing, increasing the supply of affordable housing and creating an enabling environment for sustainable development that will attract investment,

Last year, one out of every six dollars of assets under professional management in the United States a total of 6.6 trillion was allocated toward some form of sustainable investment, especially public equities.

Foreign direct investment and the acquisition of progressively higher levels of technology are indispensable elements for the economic transformation that developing countries require in order to achieve sustainable economic growth and eradicate poverty.

Further study will be required to identify how the future recurrent costs of the new police, including salaries, can be funded in a sustainable manner once the start up investment has been made.

Sustainable livelihoods. Sustainable development.

The United Nations Environment Programme s Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative estimates that investment in renewable energy has reached 100 billion worldwide, or 18 of new investment in the power sector. The Initiative, which involves some 170 financial institutions, also estimates that market financing for clean and renewable energies could reach 1.9 trillion by 2020.

Such developments would significantly deplete Bosnia and Herzegovina's chances of establishing a more reliable investment environment, and hamper stabilization of economic growth, because long term poverty reduction depends on achievement of sustainable economic growth.

States would have to provide the necessary guarantees for private sector engagement, securing, for example, immediate and sustainable investment to reconstruct war torn societies by creating jobs and generating small and medium sized enterprises.

This treaty improved the investment climate and encouraged investment.

Neither neo Keynesians nor supply siders focus on the true remedies for this persistent drop in investment spending. Our societies urgently need more investment, particularly to convert heavily polluting, energy intensive, and high carbon production into sustainable economies based on the efficient use of natural resources and a shift to low carbon energy sources.

In both the public and private sectors, we need to commit ourselves to long term investment, whether in children and education, science and technology, and health and medicine, or in building strong institutions that can serve as the sustainable foundations of peaceful, democratic, and prosperous societies. An investment in our future is never wasted.

The reduction of unemployment and social inequality and the expansion of social investment are determining factors for human development in other words, sustainable economic growth within a democratic framework based on social and gender equality.

(p)bis. Further recognizing the need for increased investment in sustainable forest management, including through the reinvestment of revenues generated from the forest of reinvesting revenues generated from timber related trade back into the forest