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Already, thousands of real businesses are using these
technologies
to disrupt every aspect of financial intermediation.
No wonder blockchain is ranked close to the peak of the hype cycle of
technologies
with inflated expectations.
The fact is that most environmentally friendly
technologies
demand significant upfront investment, meaning that “going green” remains a privilege reserved for the few countries that can afford it.
After all, governments’ capacity to provide subsidies is limited, and wealthy countries cannot be expected to bear the costs of the uptake of sustainable
technologies
worldwide.
Consider the Swedish company Solarus AB, whose innovative business model – manufacturing solar panels out of carbon fibers discarded by the aerospace industry – has enabled it to offer competitively priced solar technologies, without support from government subsidies.
The fact that solar
technologies
can be produced locally from recycled materials, Pauli argues, means that governments should not provide solar-related subsidies and bailouts – the costs of which eventually land on taxpayers.
Even after the needed
technologies
are deployed widely, additional investment in power storage or a back-up energy would be needed.
Of the roughly 500 crowdfunding platforms that now exist, several specifically target clean
technologies.
New
technologies
open new opportunities.
If Putin is serious about diversifying and strengthening Russia’s commodities-based economy, thereby improving the lives of his country’s people, he must attract advanced
technologies
and foreign investment, especially from the West.
We must ensure that the intelligent regulation of markets both anticipates the disruptive effects of new digital
technologies
and harnesses the opportunities they offer.
The troika could then have pressed the flesh with China’s leaders and made an offer that they would have found difficult to refuse – including, for example, sustainable mining
technologies
to address the environmental costs of extraction, or the development of a certification scheme to help prevent the illegal smuggling of rare earths.
Undaunted, he sought to acquire
technologies
to produce the weapons.
The reason for these results is straightforward: increasing Europe’s climate-policy efforts boosts investments, thus inducing learning-by-doing, especially when these efforts are channeled into new
technologies
like renewable energy and advanced construction materials.
And the adoption of work-displacing digital
technologies
may need to be paced, so that the economy’s structural adjustment can keep up.
Helping the poor with today’s technologies, while investing in future improved technologies, is the optimum division of labor.
New
technologies
and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind.
New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.
As with other technologies, countries must weigh the costs and benefits of nuclear power.
Furthermore, the report emphasizes the need to deepen, broaden, and update the local knowledge base, invest in energy- and material-resource efficiency, and promote green
technologies
and industries.
Facing Up to Climate RealityLONDON – Last year, three facts about climate change became clear: Achieving a low-carbon economy is essential; new
technologies
make that goal attainable at an acceptable cost; but technological progress alone will be insufficient without strong public policies.
Rapid cost reductions are also being achieved in battery and other energy-storage technologies, bringing electric cars closer to economic viability and enabling flexible electricity supply even where a large percentage of power comes from intermittent sources.
These and other
technologies
will enable the transition to low-carbon economies to be carried out at a manageable cost.
Lower oil, coal, and gas prices would reduce incentives to develop and deploy renewable energy technologies, or to improve energy efficiency.
Increased public support for research and development in crucial
technologies
– particularly energy storage – is needed to prevent short-term movements in fossil-fuel prices from undermining the transition’s momentum.
Boundaries like these are fixed once and forever, and no one knows what discoveries, technologies, and opportunities the future might bring.
It also enjoys a technological lead in shale-energy technologies, and it already has a vast network of pipelines, refineries, and ports in the energy sector that can be repurposed for shale gas and oil (though much more investment will be needed).
New information and communications
technologies
were game changers that boosted the potential growth rate of the US economy in the 1990’s.
McKinsey’s research suggests that shale energy and big-data
technologies
will be game changers with similar benefits for the economy’s potential growth over the next several years.
While it is difficult to determine China’s long-term strategic intentions, it is clear that the country’s efforts over the last decade to acquire advanced weapons systems, platforms, and
technologies
are gradually shifting regional security paradigms and challenging US strategic primacy.
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