Sentences with phrase «resource endowments»

In essence, a finite resource endowment is converted into an annuity, rather like what happens with retirement incomes.

Countries with greater wealth and natural resource endowments adapt more efficiently than those with less.

China is a neighboring authoritarian state whose resource endowment is small relative to its population.

This means that after decades of stagnation, key African markets — Nigeria, Angola and South Africa, but also increasingly countries with less extraordinary resource endowments like Kenya, Ethiopia or Rwanda — are attractive for more than their primary resources.

It is worth noting that in China oil overcapacity is not a problem caused by a rich resource endowment.

Each country has its own RD&D priorities based on their particular resource endowment, technology expertise, industrial strengths and energy markets.

States in India are in very different stages of deploying renewables, with different resource endowments, an issue that will require co-operation from both state and federal levels said Anil Kumar Jain, NITI's Additional Secretary for Energy, Climate Change and Overseas Engagements.

Although other allocations would allow some people to lead a higher quality of life (for example, those living in countries with large resource endowments), others would necessarily lead a more deprived life (that is, those with less access to global resources).

Its geographic location and natural resource endowments made it an ideal home for the industries that inevitably created the pollution problem.

The differences in gas resource endowments among regions are largely explained by differences in the regional distribution of supergiant gas fields.

Reasons for this include varying resource endowments, as well as differences in how strong or weak each state's research, scientific and industrial base is.

... the key factors are not the economic factors that many people might think would be most important - things like natural resource endowments or location or educational attainment.

Russia is an authoritarian country whose resource endowment is very large relative to its population.

Thirdly, Australians are at last coming to terms with the challenges and opportunities inherent in their geographic location and resource endowments.

Canada is fortunate to have one of the world's largest and most diverse natural resource endowments.

The United States is needlessly penalizing itself and squandering its resource endowment, all because of the big lie that carbon dioxide is causing dangerous global warming.

As Australia's Ambassador for the Environment, Peter Woolcott, pointed out at a recent public forum at ANU Crawford School, views will diverge about «what Australia can realistically achieve given its unique national circumstances and characteristics, including its resource endowment, and economic and population growth».

Regional differentiation is important when addressing climate change mitigation — economic development needs, resource endowments and mitigative and adaptive capacities — are too diverse across regions for a «one - size fits all» approach (high agreement, much evidence).

But various states can differ sharply in their resource endowments, as well as energy supply and demand patterns.