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2015 Could Be Year For Sustainable Development & Investment

2015 Could Be Year For Sustainable Development & Investment

by The Daily Eye Team January 29 2015, 2:52 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secs

A new report published by the United Nations Environmental Programme, the third progress report from their Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, highlights several potential and critical innovations which could help close the widening sustainable development investment gap. The report, Pathways to Scale, draws on work across 12 countries and a range of critical sectors, finding that a key problem affecting the future of a sustainable financial system is that, currently, financial markets do not effectively or even accurately price environmental resources, resulting in the falling values of natural stocks such as clean air, productive soils, and abundant water in 116 out of 140 countries worldwide.

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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