David Pitt-Watson is Executive Fellow at the London Business School and Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative. After chairing the closing session of the Global Landscapes Forum on investment in London, he says there is now potential for finance to play its essential role and take money from where it is to where it is needed: in sustainable, productive land use in developing countries.
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