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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this growth, the researchers don’t believe the investment is sufficient to meet the Paris commitments, and argue that it would need to have doubled between 2010 and 2020 to have made a meaningful impact. Driving the change.

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Why a Low Carbon Price Can Be Good News for the Climate

Harvard Business Review

economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). The law requires California to return to 1990 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, an overall 15% reduction from today's levels. are just beginning to debate the potential of pricing carbon on a national scale, California is once again ahead of the curve.

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A $10 Trillion Bet on China and India

Harvard Business Review

growth rate this year to a slowdown in exports and the government's intervention to stave off inflation and rein in property prices. As we reported in our book, in China, annual per-capita income is projected to rise, on average, from about $4,400 in 2010 to $12,300 in 2020; in India, it will increase from $1,500 to $4,400.

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

These aren't controversial production-side subsidies (of the kind that have been challenged as contravening international trade agreements) but rather incentivizing domestic subsidies intended to help Chinese citizens and organizations to purchase solar systems at an affordable price. This week, the share price of Trina Solar Ltd.

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Don't Underestimate China's Luxury Market

Harvard Business Review

The Wall Street Journal says that Prada's dazzling numbers reflect Chinese consumers' increasingly refined tastes, making Prada's high quality leather goods, with high price points and subtle logos, that much more attractive. trillion, with annual expenditures increasing from $2 trillion in 2010 to more than $6 trillion in 2020.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. And the U.S.

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Open India: Considerations for Retailers

Harvard Business Review

How can multinationals develop innovative business models with "small store" formats to promote convenience, yet give consumers lower prices through economies of scale in purchasing and supply chain efficiencies? By 2020, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) projects that India's retail sector will become a $1.3

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