Sentences with phrase «emerging economies like»

While the financial crisis of 2009 was bad for economies, it was good for the environment, but the recovery - largely powered by emerging economies like China and India - has seen emissions jump 5 % over the previous record year, 2008, to 30.6 Gigatonnes (Gt).

The main reason is that emerging economies like China currently use energy fairly inefficiently, partly as a result of national policies that have kept the prices of fossil fuels very low, and could thus achieve large energy savings at a modest cost.

As we see older, inefficient coal plants replaced in Europe and the US by new, highly efficient ones in emerging economies like China, Southeast Asia and India, this issue looks at an array of energy trends and what they mean for these economies.

This investment is consistent with a broader trend of major emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil becoming important sources of global overseas invest ¬ ments.

In recent years, major emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil have been catching up with leading developed country investors in Europe and the United States.

However the lack of emissions reductions commitments from the U.S. for the past few years puts decisions on finance into question, since many emerging economies like China and India who have only recently become high carbon emitting countries are loath to act until historical emitters, like the U.S., make a move.

Large emerging economies like that of India face a serious dilemma.

It's twofold: No. 1, solar and wind power can not meet the world's voracious demand for energy, especially given the projected needs of emerging economies like India and China, and No. 2, nuclear power is our best hope to get off of fossil fuels, which are primarily responsible for the heat - trapping gases cooking the planet.

Durbin sounds a bit like Obama in his comments to The New Yorker, when he said it wasn't «feasible» to think emerging economies like China and India can cut their carbon emissions significantly and quickly.

Leading emerging economies like India and China say access to cheaper clean energy technologies is essential if they are to slow emissions growth and allow their growing populations access to power.

The share of food wasted is expected to increase drastically if emerging economies like China and India adopt Western food habits, including a shift to eating more meat, the researchers warned.

A U.S. source familiar with the U.S. position at the talks, who asked not to be named, said that U.S. delegates in Bonn were pushing an agenda that resembled those of past administrations — stressing that emerging economies like China follow the same rules as developed nations and meet international standards for monitoring and reporting emissions.

There is no doubt that the global coal fleet is changing as older inefficient subcritical stations built decades ago in Europe and the US are being replaced by new, highly efficient plants in emerging economies like China, South and South - east Asia.

We know too that some investors are a little leery of emerging economies like China.

Online trading is witnessing more takers as the share markets across the globes are getting mature, especially in the emerging economies like ours.

Emerging economies like Saudi Arabia and China, the world's top emitter, want rich countries to commit to doing more to cut greenhouse gas output while allowing poorer nations to burn more fossil fuels to build their economies and end poverty.

Those three groups formed a key alliance during the Durban conference that forced the United States and major emerging economies like India and China to commit to negotiating a future broad climate deal that binds all big emitters to cut carbon.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

They point to the turbulence in financial markets, slower growth in emerging economies like China, and weak growth across the developed world.

There's also been a great expansion of capacity, especially in emerging economies like China where the government is explicitly trying to create jobs.

Major emerging economies like India insisted that they should not have to pay for the energy transition, since the world's pollution had been caused by more than a century of economic growth in the U.S. and in Europe.

Not exact matches

With growing opportunities in emerging and frontier economies — and countries like Iran and Cuba — a current news headline, given President Obama's visit there — opening up for business, adapting to diverse locations will prove key in the global business landscape.

Thanks to an increase in government - backed accelerator and incubator programs in emerging economies across the world, we are already seeing more American founders launching in countries like Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia; and we are likely to see this trend sharply increase in coming years.

The withdrawal of Federal Reserve stimulus and attendant normalization of interest rates is also a hot topic — as is the bloodbath in emerging markets — while many are coming around to the notion that the American economy just can't grow like it used to anymore.

«When autonomous vehicles, AI, IoT and other emerging technologies are combined with economic trends like the sharing economy, we truly see different business designs that profoundly disrupt the market,» Walker says.

So this all becomes a very interesting view of the world: once we get to that level, contracts become like rudimentary AIs working on your behalf, [and] we begin to enter into the collaborative economy where true peer - to - peer nature can emerge.

All the excess is crushing prices, hurting commodity - dependent economies across emerging markets like Brazil and Venezuela and developed countries like Australia and Canada.

In the case of the economy, there is a growing and untenable gap between debt burdens and debt servicing ability, but even if you anticipate the eventual failures (which can be like watching grass grow), the triggering events emerge out of the blue.

While politicians blame speculators and Americans whine about gas prices, emerging economies are growing their middle class like gangbusters.

Countries like Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia have cryptocurrency economies worth watching, but it is Japan and South Korea that have emerged in full force to fill the gap.

Technology companies now make up a sizable portion of emerging - market stock markets, and these companies have the opportunity to drastically improve economic productivity through things like mobile banking that are hard to replicate in developed economies.

«One of them, emerging market demand from the likes of India and China, continues to grow, and we expect it to continue to grow as those economies develop further.»

For example, some say that enforcing things like a certain percentage reduction of greenhouse gas / carbon emission unfairly penalizes emerging economies (like China and India).

Ethiopia, but the likes of Kenya and Nigeria too, are key political economies to watch in the coming years as they try to balance Western suitors and emerging market partners to move into higher developmental gear.

Countries like ours risk being out - smarted, out - worked and out - competed by the new emerging economies.

Emerging economies, like India, have suffered spikes in the volatility of their currencies with damaging effects on their balance of payments.

With the new tax incentive, Hein said, film and television production is poised to emerge as a full - fledged sector of the county's economy, like tourism or agriculture.

Unlike economies like the U.S. and much of Europe, where smartphone usage has been maturing and growth slowing down, emerging markets still have relatively low smartphone penetration.

Funds like these have the freedom to invest in any of the fastest growing, emerging and frontier economies.

Like EM equities, EM bonds have experienced outflows and poor performance due to concerns about the impact of potentially new U.S. trade policies on emerging economies.

Performance for foreign exchange - traded trackers like iShares MSCI EAFE (EFA) and iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) far surpassed anything the S&P 500 could muster up; developed international markets doubled U.S. capital appreciation while emerging economies catapulteEmerging Markets (EEM) far surpassed anything the S&P 500 could muster up; developed international markets doubled U.S. capital appreciation while emerging economies catapulteemerging economies catapulted 350 %!

As you probably know, ETFs may track a commodity such as gold, a basket of commodities such as agricultural crops, a broad index like the S&P 500, an industry sector such as financials, the economy of a specific country like Japan or Brazil, or even a group of countries designated as «emerging markets».

During that interview, he ticked off a litany of problems that had the potential to topple the economy and the financial markets, including arcane financial instruments like credit swaps, emerging market funds, risky hedge funds — even overheated housing and mortgage markets.

If you want to invest in something like emerging - economy stocks, limit your stake to a point where you can accept the associated foreign exchange risk.

Drawn (with an angle grinder) with consciously inelegant economy, their heads bowed beneath their hoods and their hands outstretched, the lump - like beggars nonetheless emerge from fields of black ink with a quiet and paradoxical dignity.

The U.S. and European countries want to move away from this «differentiation» among economies, and want big emerging countries like China and India to pitch in more in a final climate deal.

Operating in 122 countries, RE100 companies have a global reach with rapid uptake of renewables being seen in emerging economies, such as India and China, where corporate giants like Infosys and Tata Motors are leading the charge.

The numbers are striking: in the 1990s, as the market integration project ramped up, global emissions were going up an average of 1 percent a year; by the 2000s, with «emerging markets» like China now fully integrated into the world economy, emissions growth had sped up disastrously, with the annual rate of increase reaching 3.4 percent a year for much of the decade.

There's no reason emerging standard of living need be like Western habits to be desirable, and so there's no correlation necessary between emergers acting in their own self - interest to improve their satisfaction obtained from the economy and higher AGHGE.

It is about how the small group of committed entrepreneurs introduced in Small is Possible managed to keep their dream alive and thriving through the economic recession, emerging with a model of what a sustainable local economy might look like in a post carbon future.