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A third ingredient of fossil-fuel flimflam is so-called clean coal, often relying on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies.
It is already clear that CCS is commercially viable only when used for EOR, which means that coal itself will never be a clean fuel, even if modern filters can be used to reduce particulate air pollution.
The going “wage” for the “Rent-A-Crowds” at the heart of the crisis was 300 Baht a day per person, plus food, transportation, and a clean yellow T-shirt – yellow being the Royal color.
In fact, global investment in clean energy, driven by enlightened, forward-looking national policies, grew to a record $243 billion in 2010, up 30% from the previous year.
Indeed, in less than a decade, clean energy has grown from a niche industry to a significant source of trade, investment, manufacturing, and job creation.
We are not far from the day when clean energy can compete head to head with coal, oil, and gas.
The European Union is providing that certainty through its clean-energy targets, carbon markets, and feed-in tariffs (under which utilities guarantee to pay a fixed rate for clean energy).
The events of the past 15 months – starting with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, followed by the violence in North Africa and the tragedy in Japan – confront the world with a stark choice between the costs and risks of traditional energy sources and the promise and progress of clean energy.
Our challenge, therefore, is to boost the benefits and reduce (and eventually eliminate) the harm done by our cars, so that the future of motor travel is clean, efficient, safe, and accessible to all.
Now the world’s biggest car market has declared a new goal: China wants to have the largest number of clean cars.
By this they mean mainly ample consumption and ample leisure, together with public goods – for example, clean air, safe food, and safe streets – and civic amenities such as municipal parks and sports stadiums.
Of course, in a time of hardship, a country may not immediately be able to afford a good economy; its people will first want clean air and safe food.
For starters, they should use the EU’s new bail-in rules to clean up banks’ balance sheets, imposing losses on creditors and compensating any small investors who were sold a false bill of goods.
After all, we accept the costs of police forces and health care, including not just hospitals, but also clean water, safe food, etc.
Clean and renewable energy will be an indispensable component of the fight against poverty worldwide.
The new refugee encampments are among the most densely populated places on Earth, and inhabitants are desperate for shelter, nutrition, health care, clean water, and sanitation.
Examples include wind farms in Ethiopia, better forest management in Madagascar, nationwide climate plans in Indonesia and Vietnam, and clean urban transport in Colombia.
Consider this: they ignored the negative costs of climate change, and suggested that clean energy would never be price competitive with fossil fuels, which is simply not true.
For example, countries must invest in physical and social infrastructure, in order to ensure access to public services, from clean water to health care and safe public spaces.
The government is particularly unhappy with RBI measures to clean up India’s banks, many of which are burdened by a large volume of non-performing assets, and prevent risks from building up in other parts of the financial system.
In Greece, as in the US, a new government was left to clean up the mess.
Officials shouldn’t urge people to wash their hands where clean water isn’t available.
Distorted interest rates, official guarantees, and tax subsidies encourage continued investment in real estate, when what the economy needs is investment in, say, technology and clean energy.
While the world watches, Burma's generals are consolidating their tyrannical rule as hundreds of thousands of the cyclone’s survivors remain in desperate need of shelter, clean drinking water and medical care.
And as other countries begin to phase out coal by producing or importing cheap, clean natural gas, they, too, will reduce their emissions.
Second, despite the obvious difficulties, a clean break with the EU is probably far simpler than negotiating a complex arrangement with the remaining 27 member states, especially if one’s priority is to keep the British Conservative Party unified and in power.
This is inconvenient for climate mandarins in the UK and Copenhagen alike, because it reduces clean energy’s allure.
In a pure form, clean floating, the central bank does not intervene in the market to affect the exchange rate though it (or the government) may engage in exchange transactions in the course of its other activities.
Under a clean floating rate, there cannot be and never has been a foreign exchange crisis.
To overcome its balance-sheet recession, the eurozone needs to clean up its banks, reduce the crushing overhang of mostly private debt, redress the huge shortfall in investment, eliminate barriers to enterprise, and tackle the deflationary drag of German mercantilism.
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