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...neighbor, India, has not made significant improvements, he said. The panelists all praised China for its efforts in “greening” the country. According to Moomaw, China currently keeps track of a “Green GDP” and will have the highest production of solar panels by next year. “The global South expects more of the global North than they are willing to give,” added fellow panelist David Blackbourn, director of the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard. In addition, Moomaw stated that one hurdle...
...gets his way. His administration plans to channel spending toward four main areas: strengthening a safety net for the unemployed (about $19 billion) and providing financing for small- and medium-sized companies (about $30 billion); improvements in health care, nursing and child care; subsidizing the development and use of solar energy and environmentally friendly technologies; and public-works projects to help regional economies. Revisions to the tax system, including tax cuts, are also included in the economic plan. (See pictures of Japan and the world...
...Japan wants to win back the No. 1 spot as the world's top producer of solar cells - a position it recently lost to Germany - and will provide subsidies to companies and households to increase the use and production of solar energy. Japan will also outfit schools with solar panels (with a goal of installing panels on 36,000 schools over three years) and pay consumers to buy greener electronics. Subsidies will also be put in place too encourage purchases of hybrid and electric cars...
...Going Green To Survive With his low-lying island nation at risk from rising seas caused by global warming, President Mohamed Nasheed has announced a plan to make the Maldives the world's first carbon-neutral country. Under the plan, the Maldives would generate electricity with wind turbines and solar panels and buy emissions credits from the E.U. to offset air travel for the estimated 600,000 tourists who visit its islands each year...
...going to blade off hundreds of thousands of acres of earth to preserve the earth?' DAVID MYERS, head of the Wildlands Conservancy, criticizing a proposal to build massive wind, solar and geothermal plants in the Mojave Desert...