Sentences with phrase «scale effective investments»

Forest Trends» Water Initiative designs, implements, and brings to scale effective investments in ecosystems that support clean, safe water for people and nature.

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For instance, a 2008 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA) summarized the economic benefits of effective programs targeting substance use and misuse (which teach numerous SEL skills), noting that a large - scale, cross-program investment in school - based prevention would produce an $ 18 return per dollar invested and save state and local governments an estimated $ 1.3 billion (Miller & Hendrie, 2009).

Louis (1989), drawing upon a large - scale survey and case studies of effective schools initiatives in urban secondary schools (Louis and Miles, 1990) identified four district - level approaches to school improvement varying in terms of the uniformity of process and outcomes intended: implementation strategy; evolutionary planning; goal - based accountability; and professional investment.

Although the tax credit doesn't directly reduce the cost of solar energy, it does help create the economy of scale needed for solar panels to be cost effective and helps create stability in the market for companies wanting to invest in research, infrastructure and other investments with a longer return.

The sustainable investment forum gathers around 300 stakeholders from national and regional governments, international finance, private industry and carbon management sectors — the perfect event where we think we can share with our peers regarding the trends, the best practices but also participate in progressing the dialogue on the development of effective public - private funding mechanisms for scaling low carbon innovation.

The overarching objective of this study is to analyse the scale and scope of investments in low - carbon technologies in power generation, transport, buildings and industry (including heating and cooling) that are needed to facilitate such a transition in a cost - effective manner, while also working towards other policy goals.

Potentially, contributors to such a facility could include governments for whom domestic mitigation action might be more costly than investment through the global market, or sectors where the technology is not yet fully available to enable them to take effective large scale mitigation action — such as the aviation industry.

- Florian Zerhusen, 2017 Finance & Investment Conference Co-Chair, President & CEO, BayWa r.e. Wind, LLC «Wind energy is of scale, cost effective and the AWEA Finance and Investment Conference is a great place to learn more about the wind industry from an investors perspective.»

Recognise that scale is critical to addressing risk and enabling low - carbon investment opportunities to be more cost - effective relative to high - carbon opportunities.