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Refah is likely to remain a major political force as long as the traditional parties do not clean up their acts.
So we knew that there would be problems with the election, that voting would not be clean in the way Western countries take for granted.
The ambassadors found that providing clean drinking water and sanitation to the billion people lacking such amenities was crucial.
A Bright Future for Clean TechnologyMUNICH – Observers might be forgiven for thinking that so-called clean technology's moment in the sun has passed.
Indeed, underlying recent developments are signs of a much more significant transformation: clean tech is becoming commercially viable.
One pivotal question for the future of clean tech has been whether it needs regulatory support to thrive.
Nonetheless, concerns about the future of clean tech have made new projects more difficult to finance.
Clean tech is maturing and adopting proven management practices in operations, marketing, sales, and distribution.
The global plastic industry, with annual revenues of about $750 billion, surely could find a few hundred million dollars to help clean up the mess it created.
With the time afforded by the ECB’s three-year cheap loans, they have some breathing room to rebuild their capital and clean up their balance sheets.
The credibility of Europe’s national supervisory agencies has been irreparably damaged in recent years, owing to financial stress tests that gave clean bills of health to institutions – Laiki Bank of Cyprus and Bankia of Spain, among others – whose balance sheets were later found to have enormous holes.
We know this because the last and only time anybody “killed” a satellite with a land-based missile was in 1985, when the US destroyed one of its own satellites, creating a slick of debris that took the American government 17 years to clean up.
The news came as quite a shock: Recall that when Greek officials came clean about the true state of their country’s public finances in 2010, the budget deficit was more than 10% of GDP – a moment of statistical honesty that triggered the eurozone debt crisis.
The list goes on to focus on agricultural technologies to tackle food production and hunger, as well as technologies to boost the supply of clean drinking water and improve sanitation.
It is one instrument among many that are needed, along with reforms to increase transparency, protect whistleblowers, prevent tax evasion, clean up campaign financing, and reduce officials’ discretionary power, which allows them to profit from the power to permit.
It delivers no health benefits over clean tap water.
Then as now, the focus in America was on “green” topics (clean water, fresh air, and biological diversity) rather than with the “brown” topics of ecological disasters such as the Chernobyl (or Harrisburg) disaster, which have played a dominant role in mobilizing Europeans.
Ringo also heads the Apollo Alliance , a coalition of trade unions, environmentalist groups, managers, and local politicians that demands clean energy and good jobs.
The two governments have also proclaimed initiatives on clean energy and climate change.
As a result, clean air, renewable energy, and green spaces have all too often been sacrificed to the notion that environmentally friendly legislation increases costs and red tape for businesses and ultimately hurts the economy.
Meanwhile, in Germany, a startup called Green City Solutions is building mobile moss-covered walls to clean polluted air and help lower urban temperatures.
If we pay to clean up pollution, this increases GDP, but no wealth has been created.
But carmakers think fuel cells are the better, more efficient, silent, clean power source for transportation.
The tragedy of Korea is that no one really wishes to change the status quo: China wants to keep North Korea as a buffer state, and fears millions of refugees in the event of a North Korean collapse; the South Koreans could never afford to absorb North Korea in the way that West Germany absorbed the broken German Democratic Republic; and neither Japan nor the US would relish paying to clean up after a North Korean implosion, either.
Specifically, the G-8 leaders should commit to providing adequate financing for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; to raise food productivity in Africa through a new Green Revolution; to ensure that all poor children have the opportunity to go to school; and to ensure that poor people everywhere have access to clean drinking water and sanitation.
But given that the people who have benefited so much from the current system are unlikely to clean it up, the only other way to generate reform would be to empower the people getting the short end of the stick – people like Chen and those he has helped.
In comparison, the United Nations estimates that half that amount could permanently solve all of the world’s major problems: it could ensure clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care, and education for every single person in the world, now.
We would have enough resources to win the war against hunger, end conflicts, stop communicable diseases, provide clean drinking water, broaden educational access, and halt climate change.
Concerns over nanomaterials’ possible effects on health and the environment have perhaps overshadowed the pressing need to ensure that their production is clean and environmentally benign.
Mexico’s 2012 General Law on Climate Change has put it on course for a major increase in clean power.
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