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Moderator:
Charles McNeill, Team manager and senior biodiversity
Advisor, Environment Programme, Environment and Energy Group, UNDP
Panelists:
Virginia Barreiro, Senior Associate, World Resources
Institute
Lucas Black, Global Business Outreach Coordinator,
Growing Sustainable Business Initiative, UNDP
Yannick Glemarec, Deputy Executive Coordinator, Global
Environment Facility, UNDP.
John Waugh, Senior Program Coordinator, IUCN, USA
Multilateral Office
 Market
Solutions to Global Challenges
by
Virginia Barreiro
Synopsis: The saturated market situation
in developed countries and enormous potential market size and new business
opportunities in developing countries has captured the attention of investors
to new emerging market. Especially, Small and Medium-size Enterprises
(SMEs) have been considered as major drivers of sustainable growth. Despite
some risks, such as lack of financial management and business strategy,
and limited market information, the New Venture program of World Resource
Institute has now supported 150 innovative SMEs in countries such as
Mexico, China and Brazil.
 Growing
Sustainable Business for Poverty Reduction
by
Lucas Black
 Leveraging
Carbon Finance for Sustainable Development
by
Yannic Glemarec
 Investing
in Coastal Ecosystems as Development Infrastructure
by
John Waugh
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