From US researchers using the pace of
Chinese construction markets to test energy reduction technologies, to the UK government harnessing behavioural psychology to promote energy efficiency, the authors highlight examples of government investment that helped create or improve clean energy initiatives across the world.
Not exact matches
So crucial is the
Chinese market that Boeing, in cooperation with
Chinese aerospace manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), just began
construction on a Boeing 737 completion center in the island - city of Zhoushan.
Fuelling global demand for the metal, Chile's copper
market grew fat on the
Chinese appetite during its
construction boom.
So crucial is the
Chinese market that Boeing, in cooperation with Comac, just began
construction on a 737 completion center in the island - city of Zhoushan.
Wider mobile coverage means more consumers starting to shop online, so the
Chinese e-commerce company tracks their
construction to decide where to
market its web store and set up delivery centres.
Facing a saturated domestic
market and fierce competition in European and US
markets,
Chinese companies are now advancing into Africa with a full range of commercial activities along the production chain, including the export of wind turbines and solar panels, the development of new equipment manufacturing facilities, and the financing and
construction of new renewable energy generation facilities such as wind and solar farms.7 China's increasing engagement in the promotion of renewable energy projects in Africa seems to have gone almost unnoticed; but how significant is this engagement, what form does it take and how can it best be explained?
Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive
Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the
construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global
market.
The firm's Latin American practice works with U.S., European, and
Chinese companies interested in breaking into region's transportation,
construction, telecommunications, mineral exploration, and natural resources
markets.
This was made evident, when, for example, a
Chinese construction company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in a $ 60 million transaction and raised much need expansion capital at the very bottom of the stock
market, in early March 2009.