Sentences with phrase «green economic revolution»

Gareth Redmond - King, head of climate and energy at WWF, called the first coal - free working day «a significant milestone in our march towards the green economic revolution».

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Major economic and institutional obstacles stand in the path of a green - energy revolution, however.

Trained in the UK as an agricultural ecologist in the heyday of the green revolution, he has worked on food and economic development from Wales to the West Indies, Delhi to DC.

But going green and clean is the best way to remain an economic powerhouse, argues Thomas L. Friedman in his new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2green and clean is the best way to remain an economic powerhouse, argues Thomas L. Friedman in his new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).

In a book published in 1971, India's Green Revolution, Economic Gains and Political Costs, she reported that farmers with larger landholdings, such as the wheat farmers in the country's north, benefited far more than small - scale rice farmers in the south and east, or landless labourers.

For local groups like MASIPAG (The Farmer Scientist Partnership for Development Inc.) in the Philippines, combating a socio - economic problem with a technofix solution is reliving the Green Revolution — which they have totally turned their backs on.

There is another school of thought - that human ingenuity and economic progress will get round the problem, as they have in the past, notably in the Green Revolution that transformed food - scarce countries such as India into lands of abundance, with food exports contributing to the national coffers.