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But a 30% cost rebate is not enough to stimulate development of offshore wind capacity.
This is a pity, because the UK is missing out on the opportunity to build offshore generating capacity along its long, windy coastline.
I argued that, otherwise, the UK would be on track to add fewer than 300 MW of new wind capacity per year.
This would lead to approximately three gigawatts of capacity by 2020, which equates to 1 GW of continuous production – less than 2% of 2007 consumption.
If prices – and thus average debt-service capacity – fall, the real burden of the debt increases.
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Time to Test IranNEW YORK – Most of the debate about how to address Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear-weapons capacity focuses on two options.
Indeed, reforms that enable Japan to defend itself better, including by building mutually beneficial regional partnerships, would enhance its capacity to forestall the emergence of a destabilizing power imbalance in East Asia.
By contrast, Ukraine became the worst managed of all the post-Soviet states, with cronyism and corruption thwarting productive capacity, and causing the country to fall further and further behind other post-communist countries in transition.
But to achieve these results, and thereby convince our citizens of the EU’s value, Europe’s decision-making capacity must be strengthened and democratized.
Policymakers there know that governments have a role in mandating regulations to create a level playing field and helping build industry capacity.
Each year, it adds more new energy generation capacity than the installed base of the United Kingdom.
First, if the US falls short on meeting its regional commitments – for example, to engage in capacity building with partners confronting China’s aggressive assertion of territorial claims in the South China Sea – networked partnerships can help allies to compensate.
A multilateral coordination mechanism would enable these countries to harmonize their efforts, thereby boosting their capacity to advance their shared security interests, even if US resources and leadership dwindle.
Among congressional Republicans, in particular, a “take-no-prisoners” extremism is undermining the federal government’s capacity for action, which is precisely what many on the far right want.
The Gulf countries are deploying large new capacity in renewable energy, especially solar energy.
Global commodity prices will collapse, and prices for many goods and services will stop rising so quickly as unemployment and excess capacity grow.
The additional funding will strengthen the WBG’s capacity to support development projects around the world.
But they are deeply integrated into the existing global order, and have neither the ideological drive, economic interest, physical capacity, nor allied support to challenge it.
Only if wages adjust downward to accommodate the new international environment can German workers become competitive again, so that the country returns to a higher employment level, exploiting its human capital up to the capacity constraint.
After the Great Depression of the 1930’s, the vast wave of investment in industrial capacity during World War II made up the shortfall of the lost decade.
According to the Argentine scholar Roberto Bouzas, MERCOSUR is in a critical state of affairs, owing to the inability of its institutions to maintain “the common objectives which drove its member states to engage in the process of regional integration and the consequent loss of focus and capacity to prioritize underlying political problems.
The focus on China intensified late last year, when new data from the International Energy Agency and other research organizations revealed that China had overtaken the US as the largest source of greenhouse gases – and, more ominously, that its emissions are growing at a rate that exceeds all wealthy nations’ capacity to decrease theirs.
Now Abbas has called for new elections, which Hamas rejects, and it seems unlikely that he has the capacity to impose his will.
Market reformers focused their attention on reducing the size of government, but overlooked the government’s role in raising the country’s technological capacity.
An economy’s technological capacity depends on a wide range of social institutions.
In today’s global economy, however, international competitive advantage is mostly based upon knowledge and the capacity to harness knowledge in new technologies.
Traditional investment tax credits have been used successfully in the past to encourage businesses to expand their capacity to produce the products they make and sell.
But, in some cases, historical legacies can gain excessive influence, overwhelming leaders’ capacity to make rational policy choices.
In addition, a successful leader needs the hard-power skills of organizational and Machiavellian political capacity.
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