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Originally published on CleanTechnica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Now more than ever before, business leaders across many industries are calling\u00a0for national governments to implement policies such as a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade program that would reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted into the atmosphere. Increasingly, global businesses, across a wide array of sectors, have invested in renewable power, clean technologies and energy efficiency in order to reduce costs and inefficiencies while acknowledging that such programs have a positive impact on environmental and social sustainability.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, no matter how solid these calls may be, they are not loud enough, nor do they reach far enough. And the people of our world do not have the luxury of time, as they once may have had.<\/p>\n

If we seek results in how we might best transition to a sustainable\u00a0economy by 2030, as asked for in the Masdar 2016 Engage Blogging Contest<\/a>, we first need to be calling on entrepreneurs. These companies and people will achieve a variety of eye-opening solutions which not only take on the challenges of climate change, but also\u00a0make economic sense. Best of all, provide these private sector entrepreneurs with non-bureaucratic connections to the public sector, including financing options and loosened regulatory restraints to test the viability of solutions.<\/p>\n

This entrepreneurial approach assumes there is no one perfect solution<\/strong> to this enormously complex challenge of building a pathway to our low-carbon economy\u00a0\u2014\u00a0there are many solutions\u00a0<\/strong>which should be researched, developed, and tested.<\/p>\n

Introducing The Public\/Private Partners Laboratory<\/h3>\n

The Public\/Private Partners program is a dynamic way to encourage private companies to join forces with governments to develop sustainable solutions.<\/p>\n

A global governmental policy that encourages public-private partnership requires a structure. This is something the United Nations<\/a> might be able to implement with funding from participating governments. Such an undertaking might be realistically achieved following the2015 Paris climate change conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A responsible funding platform, enabling the private sector to develop the goods and services necessary for a global transition to a low-carbon economy by 2030, can be managed by an international financial entity such as the World Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This public\/private program provides an open laboratory for the research and development of potential smart-business, climate change solutions leading to a low-carbon economy.<\/p>\n

Public\/Private categories include:<\/h3>\n