The Summit will focus more particularly on innovation, developing new carbon markets and mechanisms, greening finance, brown to
green infrastructure spending and de-risking and crowding in finance.
Imagine what will happen during several months of sustained and heavy
green infrastructure spending.
Not exact matches
, or «should we
spend $ 750 million investing in
green infrastructure across the city?»
The city is
spending millions on
green infrastructure to do exactly that.
The two parties are broadly in the same place on
green energy, more housebuilding, the minimum wage, boosting capital
spending on
infrastructure and industrial strategy.
«Public Health and Landscape: Creating healthy places» provides compelling evidence that investment in landscapes — or
green infrastructure if you prefer — is money wisely
spent and brings a raft of benefits, not least when invested in school grounds.
There will likely be targeted
infrastructure funding for major public transit projects,
spending the government will promote as «
green» to help cover a weak environmental policy flank while wooing those suburban commuters Calandra referenced.
In 2015, governments, water utilities, companies, and communities
spent nearly $ 25 billion on payments for
green infrastructure for water.
The world will need to
spend an estimated US$ 5.7 trillion annually in
green infrastructure by 2020 in order to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C.
It makes no sense to
spend money on
green infrastructure — or a bailout of Detroit aimed at stimulating production of more fuel - efficient cars — if it is not combined with a tax on carbon that would actually change consumer buying behavior.
Ontario's ruling Liberal party, reelected with a majority in 2007, has sought to revive the province's economy partly through initiatives like building
infrastructure and expanding
green power, as well as increasing
spending on education and health care.
The company's business plan lets it take advantage of a housing boom in many U.S. cities, the Trump administration's focus on
infrastructure spending and a desire for more
green building materials.