Funding sustainability

Established in 1946, with a subscribed capital fund of 7.67 million, the primary mission of the World Bank is to combat poverty by securing low cost funding for sustainable development. The largest shareholder is the U.S., followed by the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and Eranee. 

Because of its heavy reliance on aid for the funding of regulatory activities, the Ugandan DRA is faced with a serious problem of financial sustainability. The financial resources are not only beyond its own control, but also beyond the control of the Government itself When donors finally withdraw their funding, some of the DRA s activities may... 

Sustained increased funding for basic biomedical research and the training of future researchers based on NIH and other federal funding in support of academic centers... 

These points are common to the Sustainable Development Concept and to the cleaner production concept. How could all that be funded It would be ridiculous to suggest that comprehensive actions towards a cleaner economy might be supported by the miserable national budget. There is even less reason to believe that any down-to-earth effort to upgrade some specific facility and implement advanced technologies and state-of-the-art equipment might be funded from it. Furthermore, we can hardly rely on the assistance from the West, and nobody here believes in assistance not backed by economic interest. 

Acknowledgements Funding for this project was provided by the Sustainable Development Initiatives Fund of Manitoba and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Neil Ball, Sergio Mejia, and the late Gregg Morden provided assistance with geochemical and... 

Acknowledgements This project was funded by the Manitoba Government through its Sustainable Development Innovation Fund as well as by an NSERC DG to BLS. 

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HarmonHy (2006). HarmonHy Harmonization of Regulations, Codes and Standards for a Sustainable Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology. Support Action funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme. www.harmonhy.com. 

This workshop was supported by the George and Cynthia Mitchell Endowment for Sustainability Science, the United States Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), and the American Chemistry Council. This summary is funded in part by a contract from the EPA (contract no.) Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project. 

SEEBA workshop on Supply Chain Management Meeting Electronics Customer Environental Requirements, 30 April 2003, Centre for Sustainable Design, Farnham, UK Envirowise (2001) ENDS Report 321, Envirowise revamp brings advice on cleaner product design, October 2001. Envirowise is funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry. See www.envirowise.org Apple (2005) Apple states its environmental policy with respect to materials at http //www.apple.com/ environment/design/materials/selection. html... 

The research project Options for viable iimovation systems for successful substitution of hazardous substances (or SubChem, for short) was concerned with the problem of the ability to be innovative and of the direction of iimovation with regard to risk reduction by hazardous substance substitution as part of the programme Framework conditions for innovation towards sustainability funded by... 

This project was sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the funding program Frameworks for Innovation towards Sustainability (RIW) (project number 07RIW) - the authors assume sole responsibility for the contents of this report. 

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