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Unit 4 Macro: Green Technology in World’s Fastest City

Geoff Riley

9th July 2012

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Over 1,000 people a day are arriving to live and work in Dhaka - the world’s fastest growing city. Rural-urban migration is putting huge pressures on the local environment as this news report shows. Can foreign investment in eco-friendly brick manufacturing factories help to the cut the dangerously high level of toxins from Dhaka’s construction industries? How does the EU carbon trading system link into this video resource?

More research: Cleaner Bricks for a Better Air Quality in Dhaka (World Bank)

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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