Protecting the global environment : initiatives by Japanese business
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title={Protecting the global environment : initiatives by Japanese business},
author={W Cruz},
journal={World Bank Publications},
year={2002},
pages={1},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154106636}
}this volume is the result of a cooperative effort between the world Bank Institute and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) to encourage policy discussion of the links between global environmental concerns and national development policies and programs. The report is based on the premise that policymakers traditionally have not viewed global environmental problems, such as climate change, as collateral outcomes of their national sustainable development agenda. Therefore, the objective of this…Â
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