September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
11h 53m
English
Sustainable development has featured more and more prominently on the international agenda for governments and business over the last few decades. Environmental policy in The Netherlands originally focused on business, the main source of environmental damage. The financial sector was explicitly brought on board for the first time in the late 1990s. The 1997 policy document on the environment and the economy was the first to describe a role for the financial sector. It states that capital and financiers will need to be involved in integrating the environment into business practice and the economy.
Three initiatives that have strengthened the role of the financial sector in environmental policy are:
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