Investments

To invest is to allocate money in the expectation of some benefit in the future. In finance, the benefit from an investment is called a return. The return may consist of a gain or a loss realized from the sale of a property or an investment, unrealized capital appreciation (or depreciation), or investment income such as dividends, interest, rental income etc., or a combination of capital gain and income. The return may also include currency gains or losses due to changes in the foreign currency exchange rates. Investors generally expect higher returns from riskier investments. When a low-risk investment is …

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Fraser Institute · 18 July 2024 English

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

to guarantee the rate of return on abatement investments. The sheer number of such programs means the Fund” (SIF) is said to provide “transformative investments in all sectors of the economy to help Canada will provide up to $8B to support large- scale investments in key industrial sectors across the country through 2030 11 fraserinstitute.org supports investments that are aligned with provincial and territorial


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

governments to reform tax incentives and ensure these zones attract high-quality, sustainable investments. It emphasizes the need for a comprehensive approach that includes both fiscal and non-fiscal incentives

there will be a need to prioritize sustainable investments and the mobilization of revenues to finance investors with the intention of shielding their investments from political risk, particularly legislative demonstrates additional willingness to favor foreign investments in SEZ compared to the rest of the host country” incentives required to attract renewable energy investments. Developing countries typically use profit and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

economics about the conditions for successful investments and the contingency and unpredictability of uncertain and unpredict- able, the consequences of investments should be reversible. These discussions also


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

care professionals, and by making strategic investments to address critical issues in our healthcare


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …

healthcare pro- fessionals, and by making strategic investments to address critical issues in our healthcare


Fraser Institute · 18 June 2024 English

into investment decisions. Until recently, ESG-themed investing comprised an increasing share of investments made by professional money managers and retail investors. Financial industry executives and regulators

investing comprised an increasing share of investments made by professional money managers and retail companies with high ESG ratings will allocate their investments toward these companies and away from “brown” investors will enjoy increased returns on their investments. However, in the long term, after market prices pay higher administrative fees for ESG-themed investments when they would earn similar gross returns, are willing to pay higher fees for ESG-themed investments that are seemingly not matched by higher returns


Fraser Institute · 18 June 2024 English

into investment decisions. Until recently, ESG-themed investing comprised an increasing share of investments made by professional money managers and retail investors. Financial industry executives and regulators


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are …

food-secure futures through securing large- scale investments in land in foreign countries (Pearce 2012b). in as- sessing risks and challenges of “land investments” (Kugelman 2013, 6). Thus, while acknowledging or interest to regulate foreign agricultural investments or redistribute the gains from investment among liberalized land markets and large-scale agricultural investments also often argue that women engaged in household


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 12 June 2024 English

The costs and capabilities of grid-located batteries have improved dramatically in recent years and could play an import role in South Africa's electricity system. This report examines the challenges facing …

the longer term, it may make sense to include investments in manganese-linked battery technologies, which decision-makers in evaluating the total value of grid BESS investments. • In the short term, while the sector is dependent


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 12 June 2024 English

Governments are due to submit their third nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in 2025. These will be the first since the landmark agreement at COP 28 to transition away from fossil …

efforts in an effort to justified continued investments in expansion of extraction and export capacity


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