International Private Finance and the Environment Private investment in many developing countries now vastly exceeds official foreign aid. To achieve sustainable development, these countries must set environmental as well as economic goals in the privatization of government-owned enterprises and the development of infrastructure projects, joint ventures, acquisitions, and technology transfers. This study examines mechanisms for channeling private capital into environmentally beneficial investments and for ensuring that all development projects include appropriate environmental components. The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development is a policy-oriented research and consulting organization. Nautilus promotes international cooperation for security and ecologically sustainable development.
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The Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security is an independent, non-profit center created in 1987 to conduct research and policy analysis in the areas of environment, sustainable development, and international security. Underlying all of the Institute's work is the recognition that the pressing problems of environmental degradation, regional and global poverty, and political tension and conflict are fundamentally related, and that long-term solutions require an interdisciplinary perspective.