프로젝트 파이낸싱과 환경규제

26 years ago, the Brundtland Commission presented the world with the concept of sustainable development, recognizing that environmental and social well-being contribute directly to poverty alleviation and are essential to the economic development and welfare of current and future generations. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, the international community explicitly recognized for the first time that nongovernmental actors would have to work together with public and multilateral institutions to realize these goals. In 2003, governments adopted the Millennium Development Goals to address extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, with a relatively modest price tag of $100 billion per year in ODA to achieve these minimum standards. Private financial flows to developing countries now dwarf development assistance. But only limited progress has been made in aligning either public or private capital flows with either Agenda 21 or the Millennium Development Goals. Private financial flows to developing countries are concentrated in a few emerging economies. It tends to be concentrated in sectors such as oil, gas, and telecommunications. There is much that remains to be done to align private investment with sustainable development objectives.