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Financial innovations can open the market to wider disaster coverage, Milken Institute report says
LOS ANGELES — Catastrophic losses from the Northridge earthquake, Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, and
widespread flooding in the early 1990s prompted many insurers to look for new market-based solutions to provide coverage in hazardous markets.
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Turning Plants Into Products: Delivering on the Potential of Industrial Biotechnology
As interest in sustainability grows in the United States and around the world, there is a push by p
olicymakers and the industrial biotechnology industry to find replacements for petroleum.
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Financing Green Building in Residential Development
Buildings are responsible for nearly 60 percent of Israel’s electricity consumption and contribute
28 percent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions.
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Financial innovations can help preserve cultural heritage and slow illicit antiquities trade, according to Milken Institute
LOS ANGELES — Despite increased awareness and global attempts at enforcement, the illicit antiquitie
s trade has grown into a $4-billion market that has left behind a wide swath of economic, environmental and cultural degradation.
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Scaling Enterprise Finance: The Future of Biofuels
America is finally coming to grips with the need to minimize its dependence on imported oil.
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Milken Institute report examines new regulatory models and financial innovations to fund U.S. smart grid and energy needs
LOS ANGELES — The U.S.
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Financial innovations can help produce new medicines through funding of early-stage drug development, Milken Institute report says
Despite the enormous potential of biomedical research to cure disease, public and private funding ha
s declined — a trend that could jeopardize efforts to find improved treatments for people with life-threatening illnesses.
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Milken Institute Report: Innovative Financing Can Help Rebuild Northern Israel
JERUSALEM — One year after the Second Lebanon War, northern Israel continues to suffer from high une
mployment, high poverty rates and a lack of infrastructure needed to help rebuild the war-torn region.
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Milken Institute report says integrating residential energy-efficiency programs and financial instruments is key to going green
(LOS ANGELES) Our homes produce 20 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and study after stu
dy finds that efficiency measures are the cheapest way to save energy.
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New, effective investment models work to fund drug discovery for the developing worldMilken Institute report identifies innovative financing for global health research
LOS ANGELES— The world of medicine has long been divided— between developed countries that can affor
d cutting-edge treatments and developing ones whose poor populations too often go without urgently needed care.
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New Milken Institute report identifies market tools to safeguard biodiversity in Israel -- and elsewhere
Critical factor: finding market value of ecosystems to determine which policy and financial interven
tions can work
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New Milken Institute report identifies ways to unlock capital in Texas' struggling Rio Grande Valley
Improving coordination among regional capital providers is required to help drive growth in jobs, ho
using and education
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