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Economic development which creates employment opportunity while improving the efficiency of public and private sector resource use is fundamental to achieving urban sustainability. Through tax and subsidy measures, governments have erected an enormous web of barriers and disincentives to urban sustainability. For example, in Canadian cities, companies can provide their employees with parking privileges and then receive a tax credit, but no such credit is available for employers who provide their workers with transit passes. On the other side of the coin, tax and subsidy measures can help promote activities which support progress toward urban sustainability.
This section of the Agenda will explore how economic barriers are being removed and incentives put in place that make meaningful contributions to urban sustainability. It will highlight sustainble community economic development and efforts to counter the market's current inability to value natural resources sufficiently.
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