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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Recent research from the University of Oxford argued that decarbonizing the global economy would provide a $12 trillion boost by 2050 due to the improving efficiencies of renewable sources of energy. Spurring renewable innovation. Instead, it is participation in initiatives like Mission Innovation , which has done.

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Net Zero Efforts Are Slowly Paying Off

The Horizons Tracker

Between 2000 and 2010, emissions went up by 2.3% These rules include things like using less energy, making clean technology cheaper, protecting forests, and using cleaner sources of energy. Other actions, like putting a tax on carbon emissions, reducing deforestation, and saving energy, also helped, but not as much.

Energy 92
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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

The Horizons Tracker

A recent paper from Tsinghua University highlights this divide and argues that there needs to be significant movement in terms of technology transfer between rich and poor countries if global climate targets are to be met. The costs involved in this effort are also significant, and amount to up to 4.1% of national GDP.

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What matters in 2010?

Lead on Purpose

What matters in 2010? His purpose: “Now, more than ever, we need a different way of thinking, a useful way to focus and the energy to turn the game around.&# Seth Godin , marketing guru and thought leader, did a cool project where he brought together more than seventy “big thinkers&# to write the ebook What Matters Now.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. The Components of Innovation Capital.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity.

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Could Solar Power The Next Industrial Revolution?

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article , I charted the way in which Sweden utilized the possibilities presented by the widespread adoption of electrical energy to transform its economy and itself as a country. Indeed, such a relationship between energy consumption and economic growth has been observed in numerous countries over the course of the 20th century.