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![Next year is expected to mark the tipping point when Asia’s economies surpass the rest of the world in terms of purchasing power parity. But the bigger and inarguably more transformative impact will come not from this greater prosperity, but from Asia’s opportunity to embrace and drive sustainable development. Photo: BatmanV/Shutterstock. Deforested area](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_image_290x218/public/shutterstock_telegraph_deforestation.jpg?h=e85f6c07&itok=9ZL5KiLb)
Sustainable development in Asia: seeing both the forests and the trees
As the continent comes to dominate the global economy, it will do much to determine the fate of the global commons
As a young Asian business leader, it is fascinating to be part of an important transformation – the rise of Asia in the global economy.
Next year is expected to mark the tipping…
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![Working across production, financing and demand, the Good Growth Partnership convenes a wide range of stakeholders and initiatives to reduce deforestation and enable sustainable development in three global commodity supply chains: soy, beef and palm oil. Photo: Muhd Fuad Abd Rahim/Shutterstock. Working across production, financing and demand, the Good Growth Partnership convenes a wide range of stakeholders and initiatives to reduce deforestation and enable sustainable development in three global commodity supply chains: soy, beef and palm oil. Photo: Muhd Fuad Abd Rahim/Shutterstock.](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_image_290x218/public/man_palm_oil_lantation_shutterstock_news.jpg?h=e85f6c07&itok=HaAozlsA)
How finance can reduce deforestation
“My sister is the one who got the finance degree and worked on Wall Street. When I finished school, I moved to Borneo to save the rainforests and orangutans.”
I was joking at a recent meeting on financing of commodities supply chains organized by the GEF’s Good Growth Partnership (GGP). It was a…