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Policymakers have an impact on sustainability through the framework conditions that are set for the private sector, through public procurement, through government policy intervention in various fields, and through impulses for double sustainability: namely, setting incentives or new standards for the long-term financing of projects which generate positive externalities for the environment or help to reduce negative environmental externalities on the one hand; on the other hand there should be an impulse for more long-term stable banking and financial services, so that there is a contribution to financial and macroeconomic stability. Investing in countries, projects, and products which represent a high level of sustainability could be useful in this context.
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Welfens, P.J.J., Perret, J.K., Irawan, T., Yushkova, E. (2016). Policy Conclusions. In: Towards Global Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18666-5_8
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