SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS A LONG TERM COMMITMENT
REQUIRING LONG TERM
ECONOMIC PLANNING
To counteract unpropitious market conditions ? where short-term costs
make immediate profitability difficult to achieve ? the instrument of
government grants has always been an expedient way of effecting market
forces.
There are currently various grants available to assist in paying the
capital cost of long-term investments in saving energy and reducing
the effects of fuel poverty and environmental pollution.
Long term private finance through investment bonds, leaseback contracts
and mortgages would facilitate funding the more expensive , but long
term most beneficial sustainable measures in new and existing developments.
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