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Unit 4 Macro: Green Technology in World’s Fastest City
9th July 2012
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)
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty 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 conferences in the UK and overseas.