Sentences with phrase «countries leapfrog»

I want us to acknowledge that we need international cooperation; that poor countries have a right to develop but can not expect to use traditional technologies to do it or we will pollute ourselves to death; and that rich countries, which created most of the initial problem, have an obligation to help those countries leapfrog over the industrial revolution to high technology.

I'd love to see poor and fast - developing countries leapfrog, Slinky - style, past our fossil - binge solution to progress.

In much the same way that Africa leapfrogged landline phones and adopted mobile phones directly, so, too, could developing countries leapfrog developed ones in the establishment of their education systems.

In mobile ecosystems and mobile payments, China is well ahead of the U.S., in part because the country leapfrogged landlines and went straight to mobile phone adoption.

The purpose of the initiative, says HGSE assistant professor Vanessa Fong, was to help the country leapfrog from a Third - World economy into the First - World economy by mimicking First - World fertility and education patterns.

At the same time, other countries leapfrogged ahead of us.

Genia envisions her country leapfrogging its developments with the help of blockchain tech.

Not exact matches

If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of laying fiber cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast Asia.

Although executives worried that Northeastern shoppers wouldn't «get» Trader Joe's, the company in 1996 leapfrogged the country and opened two stores in places crawling with college professors and other bargain - hunting elites: Brookline and Cambridge, both outside Boston.

Deindustrialization still threatens as China and India and many other countries continue to seek what the province now possesses, and to leapfrog places like Ontario.

Developing countries with appropriate mobile phone infrastructure may be able to leapfrog the developed world in the maturation of mobile finance.

Poor countries that are still in the agricultural age can now leapfrog into a post-industrial society bypassing all the trouble of the industrial revolution.

Alabama started the season as the # 2 team in the country but, after an impressive 41 - 14 dismantling of Michigan, the Crimson Tide were able to leapfrog USC for the # 1 spot.

When it comes to communications technology, at least: in a Netroots Nation panel today on political organizing in rural areas, Mindy Diane Feldman mentioned that some rural areas in this country are effectively leapfrogging a generation of communications technology, skipping past dial - up and even...

Ironically, in 2014, Florida leapfrogged New York as the third most populous state in the country.

Countries developing their economies now have access to a range of technologies that can allow them to leapfrog inefficient processes used in developed nations.

Although the United Kingdom and Germany are in close competition, and continually leapfrog each other to take the lead in the sector, the country in third place, France, falls a long way behind.

The panel hopes that such countries can leapfrog the development path of industrialized nations by installing more efficient and cleaner infrastructure.

«You have other countries like Israel, China, (South) Korea, Singapore where stem cell science is seen to be hot and commercially valuable and something where those countries could leapfrog over European and North American science and get ahead.»

Rhode Island Hospital received a Top Teaching Hospital distinction from The Leapfrog Group in 2016, one of 115 Top Hospitals recognized across the country.

What would be deemed a barrier to more developed countries has become a springboard for technological leapfrogging that continues to push innovation in eLearning.

South Carolina is on the cusp of leapfrogging most of the competition by passing one of the most ambitious pieces of school choice legislation in the country.

We're still basically at the same level that we were 20 years ago, which is cause for concern when other countries have leapfrogged us and improved their educational system during that time.

-- It is not essential for developing countries to repeat industrialized countries» historic trajectories: on the contrary, they can leapfrog in energy supply as many did in cellphones.

«The success of this agreement will be determined by how much developing countries can leapfrog HFCs and how much countries can avoid yet another chemical alternative like toxic HFOs and adopt natural refrigerants.

And taking the lead involves allowing for the transfer of technologies to developing countries so that they can leapfrog some of the high carbon, high fossil fuel, high greenhouse gas emission technologies that we've gone through.

In particular it emphasizes the necessity of building a strong network of technology centres as this is critical to enable developing countries to leapfrog to low greenhouse gas emission development paths.

Perhaps a confluence of these two events will allow African countries to leapfrog over the large - scale, traditional light - water nuclear technologies to nuclear technology that is smaller, modular, more flexible, and overall more appropriate.

Then, developing countries would use that climate - friendly technology to leapfrog over wealthy nations» cast - offs.

Industrialized countries should also assist developing countries to buy newer and better technologies to leapfrog over older equipment.

September 21, 2016 The development of mobile payment platforms, increasing options for providing debt, and cheaper and better off - grid solar power systems are presenting countries around the world with a chance to leapfrog the archaic electricity infrastructure that defined the twentieth century.

The development of mobile payment platforms, increasing options for providing debt, and cheaper and better off - grid solar power systems are presenting countries around the world with a chance to leapfrog the archaic electricity infrastructure that defined the twentieth century.

EIA International Climate Policy Analyst, Avipsa Mahapatra, adds, «As developing countries like India and Brazil begin to transition from using ozone depleting substances, they have the tremendous opportunity to leapfrog high - GWP HFCs by transitioning to energy efficient climate - friendly natural refrigerants, thus saving billions of tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions.

«Developing countries can leapfrog conventional options,» the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon wrote in the New York Times last year, «just as they leapfrogged land - line based phone technologies in favor of mobile networks.»

A common refrain among certain environmental groups is that developing countries will be able to leapfrog over fossil - fueled electric grids and go straight to distributed solar in the same way that these countries bypassed landline telephones and used cell phones.

Future investment in state - of - the - art technologies in countries without embedded infrastructure may be possible by «leapfrogging» rather than following a similar historic course of development to that of OECD nations.

• Strengthen economic and technological exchange with developing countries, in order to leapfrog to cleaner and more efficient modern technologies.

The Fine Print Despite all of this real world progress, the Lima text failed to take obvious steps to incentivize the transition to a clean energy future, steps like putting a price on carbon, eliminating perverse fossil fuel subsidies and increasing support for developing countries to leapfrog to modern, low - carbon economies.

Leapfrogging Is Needed We feature it because it's a striking image, but also a reminder that developing countries need clean and affordable technologies now to be able to improve their lives without putting too much strain on Earth's ecosystems.

Janmarg, India's First Full BRT Environmentalists often express hopes that developing nations will «leapfrog» the United States and Europe by adopting the newer, greener technologies that are now available without ever becoming fully dependent on the older, more polluting ones that richer countries are currently struggling to transition away from.

Second, less developed countries may take advantage of renewable technologies to «leapfrog» almost entirely over older infrastructures.

The fund selects and finances clean technology solutions that allow developing countries to leapfrog carbon - intensive technologies in favour of low - carbon solutions.

Gupta said, «Countries like India are leapfrogging because they are skipping the landline phase.»

Some of these other countries don't even have paper deeds so they can really «leapfrog» us using blockchain.