Environmentally sustainable economies are unachievable without enhanced participation of the private sector. Scientists must facilitate this process.
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We are grateful for comments from Scott Daily, Paul Ehrlich, Larry Goulder, Paul Hawken, Donald Kennedy, Jeff McNeely, Harold Mooney, Peter Raven, Virginia Walbot and Gideon Yoffe. The idea for this article arose at a meeting of the Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics.
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Daily, G., Walker, B. Seeking the great transition. Nature 403, 243–245 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35002194
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