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The challenges – from providing access to decent housing and health care to ensuring that transport networks and schools can cope with growing demand – are numerous and daunting.
Road transport and aviation, which currently rely almost entirely on liquid fossil fuels, account for 30% of total energy consumption.
Given these challenges, fossil fuels will undoubtedly play a role in transport and heavy industry for some time to come, even as their role in electricity generation declines.
Gazprom’s ambitions for gaining control of pipeline and energy transport infrastructure must be slowed, which requires allowing independent producers to prosper.
The development of the road (actually several “belts,” including a southern maritime route) will require huge investments in transport and urban infrastructure.
As in the nineteenth century, reduction in transport costs will open up new markets for trade.
The big transport and construction projects needed to realize Eurasia’s economic potential may help Russia recover the industrial and engineering might it lost with communism’s fall.
But this occurred after a world war that had created huge pent-up demand for new equipment, transport infrastructure, and household appliances, together with a military-industrial complex that armed the West during the Cold War.
In Southern Africa, the Southern African Development Community, after a shaky start, is pushing ahead with joint projects, of which transport infrastructure, a blight on much intra-African commerce, is a central theme.
Ships and airplanes have been used for transport in this black-market trade.
Complicated lines of transport using transit countries are often used.
Its transport costs are among the highest in the world, reflecting mountainous terrain and international trade routes that must cross political boundaries and depend on foreign ports.
In 2013, biofuels accounted for 3% of the total transport fuel used around the world, according to a report by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the OECD.
While this percentage is expected to remain steady, we can nonetheless expect the production of biofuels to grow in absolute terms as the global market for transport fuels also expands.
Three-quarters of rich countries’ CO2 emissions come from just four types of infrastructure: power generation, residential and commercial buildings, transport, and waste management.
Public transport was halted, trains to and from the city were stopped, shops and business closed, and citizens were told to stay home.
So did firms that provide complementary services – harvesting, transport, and storage, for example – which made investment decisions expecting high prices to persist.
Using the state of Rajasthan as an example again, creating the infrastructure to store and transport milk, fruit, and vegetables safely would cost half as much as loan waivers.
As Chris Patten, the former European Commissioner for Foreign Relations, is fond of saying, we will know Europe is serious about defense when we don’t have to lease transport planes from Ukraine.
Low prices may already have contributed to delays in America's decision to begin exporting crude oil, as well as to the political viability of US President Barack Obama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline, intended to transport oil from the Canadian tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico for export.
In energy, transport, and the digital sector, to name just a few, regulators must set the right parameters and ensure predictability.
Both depend on imported oil for transport and on domestic coal for power generation.
New kinds of power plants will have to be built to make carbon capture economical, new pipelines will have to be built to transport the CO2 to storage sites, and new monitoring systems will have to be designed to control leaks.
The mini-bus taxis developed in response to severe shortcomings in the country’s public transport system, one characterized by high prices, low-quality service, and a chaotic operating network, but they operate entirely outside of formal laws and regulations.
The infrastructure we use to produce our energy, transport our goods, and transact our business is under stress.
This would provide a platform to re-establish trade, transport, and other links among former Soviet countries and thus capture regional markets for Russian products, guarantee Russian jobs, and re-assert Russian political influence in its old neighborhood.
Flower growers in Kenya, who depend on air transport to take their short-lived product to Europe, suddenly had no income.
In Ethiopia, for example, public investments in irrigation, transport, and power have produced a significant increase in agricultural productivity and incomes.
Now, with the rapid spread of broadband, once-isolated villages benefit from online banking, transport services, and ICT-enabled agribusiness and health and education programs.
The notion that Russia could become a bridge between Europe and Asia is also vanishing because transport costs between the country's western and eastern half are too high to attract outside commerce.
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