Private Sector

The private sector is the part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is owned by private groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, rather than being owned by the state.

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

A guide for governments on defining what should be considered as "strategic" or "critical" based on a series of objective criteria.

United Nations agencies, foundations, the private sector, and individuals. The Intergovernmental Forum key to supply chain development. To stimulate private sector investment in innovation, governments need


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 15 May 2024 English

International investment treaties and their investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system are facing growing scrutiny of how they threaten climate action, environmental protection, and social justice. But what would an alternative …

United Nations agencies, foundations, the private sector, and individuals. Rethinking Investment Treaties: academia, international organizations, and the private sector. We hope to continue this work in a collaborative technical bodies that involve scientific or private sector input and aim to develop best practices in effects in that they directly subsidize the private sector instead of regulating companies to internalize


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 15 May 2024 English

International investment treaties and their investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system are facing growing scrutiny of how they threaten climate action, environmental protection, and social justice. But what would an alternative …

United Nations agencies, foundations, the private sector, and individuals. Rethinking Investment Treaties:


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

The old neo-liberal economic theory that deregulation will solve the problem of unaffordable housing is being contradicted by reality, with ugly consequences for social cohesion, mental health, urban vitality, and …

govern- ment that governs least governs best, the private sector can do most things more efciently than the


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 14 May 2024 English

How will emerging technologies affect the artisanal and small-scale mining sector?

United Nations agencies, foundations, the private sector, and individuals. The Intergovernmental Forum local NGOs, international organizations, and private sector entities to support the implementation of these


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 14 May 2024 English

After the historic adoption of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies in 2022, Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are now negotiating new global disciplines to address more broadly the …

United Nations agencies, foundations, the private sector, and individuals. World Trade Organization


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 14 May 2024 English

At the COP 28 climate summit in Dubai, 198 governments agreed to transition away from fossil fuels. That means phasing out oil and gas, as well as coal. Yet most …

United Nations agencies, foundations, the private sector, and individuals. Transitioning Away From Oil


LCO: Law Commission of Ontario · 14 May 2024 English

More specifically, the project considers how to update traditional consumer protections such as notice and disclosure requirements, deception and unconscionability rules, and consumer enforcement in light of the new, complex, …

work, travel status, and regime to govern how private sector entities visits to competing stores. 69 collect


C.D. Howe Institute · 13 May 2024 English

The regulation of DB MEPPs has traditionally occurred in lockstep with that of the traditional single-employer DB plans, even though the former often exist with no guarantee of benefits being …

Target Benefit Pension Plans With the era of private sector defined-benefit (DB) pension plans fading into


LCO: Law Commission of Ontario · 10 May 2024 English

More specifically, the project considers how to update traditional consumer protections such as notice and disclosure requirements, deception and unconscionability rules, and consumer enforcement in light of the new, complex, …

work, travel status, and regime to govern how private sector entities visits to competing stores. 69 collect


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