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With power stations now being built, the signs are bright for widespread use of geothermal energy to generate clean, emissions-free base-load power.
The infrastructure requirements alone in emerging-market economies and low-income countries are huge – 1.4 billion people still have no reliable electricity, 900 million lack access to clean water, and 2.6 billion do not have adequate sanitation.
Shock therapy that ruined the economy and gave away the country’s wealth to private but rarely clean hands?
(The authorities in Belgrade have yet to come clean on the Albanians civilians executed and buried on police and military bases in Serbia.)
Obama should stand for democracy and help push for a clean vote in the elections that the junta has promised for 2010.
Buildings can reduce their heating needs through improved insulation, or by converting from heating oil to electricity produced by clean technology.
Officials in both Hong Kong and Guangdong are powerless to clean up their environmental problems on their own.
If these reforms are not trumped by efforts to maintain high growth at all costs, the region could not only clean itself up while continuing to prosper, but could also establish a model for all of China.
But the unscientific standards and regulations that she defends in the name of the global public actually harm the environment and public health, stifling the development of environmentally friendly innovations that can increase agricultural productivity, help clean up toxic wastes, conserve water, and supplant agricultural chemicals.
In the drive to rebalance Africa’s energy mix, the continent maintains one crucial advantage over developed economies: a clean slate.
And, because fossil fuels will remain part of the continent’s energy mix, the oil sector must be encouraged to clean up its own act.
But as policymakers across the continent seek to secure adequate supplies of clean energy to ensure rapid, inclusive economic growth and environmental sustainability, they are likely to find that there is no alternative.
Protesters should clean up after themselves.
In this respect, India more resembles the France with which Sarkozy wants to make a clean break than the current one.
To President Jonathan’s credit, he delivered clean elections.
Ensuring both cheaper energy and a clean environment is a big challenge.
Although all 40 kinds of plastics used in a North American automobile can be recycled, the need to separate and clean them makes using them more expensive than using virgin plastic resins.
Freer trade will allow more people to escape poverty and secure sufficient food and clean water.
Specifically, the Bank should become a prime mover in fostering investments to promote environmental sustainability; supporting research in agriculture, health, and clean energy; and collecting and analyzing economic and social data.
But they are not only turning away from mainstream political parties and following populists who promise to clean out the corrupt elites from the centers of power; they also share a taste for political entertainers, or clowns if you like.
He also wants a one-third cut in funding to UNICEF, which provides clean water for children.
The United Nations Foundation and the US State Department have launched a $50 million public-private partnership to promote clean cooking stoves in poor countries.
Can impact investing do more to reduce global poverty than so many previous efforts, all of which have struggled to have any impact at all?Impoverished populations desperately require lighting, fuel for cooking, affordable and accessible health care, clean water, elementary education, and financial services.
Nevertheless, with the exception of the special circumstances caused by the Fukushima catastrophe, Japan is hardly the only country with a mess to clean up before it can reconstruct.
Cutting-edge technological developments – in renewable energy and hybrid or electric vehicles, for example – will be indispensable in building these cities (and, more broadly, a clean and efficient economy).
In the case of hydropower, if we plan carefully using a more holistic approach, we can meet global goals for clean energy while protecting some 100,000 kilometers of river that would otherwise be disrupted.
Today, we need universities in all parts of the world to help their societies face the challenges of poverty reduction, clean energy, sustainable food supplies, and the rest.
Climate-change foes have spent billions of dollars to influence policymakers, support election campaigns by defenders of fossil fuels, and defeat candidates who dare to promote clean energy.
Not only will they have saved the planet for the next generation; they will also enjoy sunshine and clean, healthy air.
With his Civilian Conservation Corps, for example, young men were enlisted to clean up the wilderness and plant trees.
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