The new report, «Catalyzing American Ingenuity: The Role of Government in Energy Innovation,» doubles down on the Council's earlier calls for increased and
sustained public investment in clean energy technology, and offers new ideas about how greater energy innovation investment can be paid for in a new era of fiscal austerity.
Sustained public investment now in a diverse portfolio of energy technologies will reduce climate risk, increase energy security, revitalize education, enhance our competitiveness, and strengthen the American economy.
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Sustained public investment now in a diverse portfolio of energy technologies will reduce climate risk, increase energy security, revitalize education, enhance our competitiveness and strengthen the American economy,» the letter said.
The next Labour government believes that there should be
sustained public investment in further and higher education due to its role in creating a fair and prosperous society.
That's also why it's so hard to
sustain public investment in the research and intellectual infrastructure required to make progress on the frontiers of chemistry, biology and physics, even though it is this kind of work that could produce leaps in how we harvest, harness, store and move energy.
Not exact matches
There is however a case for expanded
public investment on a
sustained basis with financing from borrowing or taxes that varies with cyclical conditions.
However, to
sustain the significant adjustment, fiscal consolidation should rely on better targeted and more permanent structural reforms to the pension system, tax exemptions, and subsidies, while protecting
public and human capital
investment.
The IFS said Labour's # 250bn ten - year programme would return
public sector
investment to levels not
sustained since the 1970s.
In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and
public investment, extend injustice and flatlining incomes,
sustain or worsen private debt, and deepen the balance - of - payments, productivity, housing and poverty deficits.
A campaign to raise
public awareness of the critical need for
sustained federal
investment in medical research conducted through the National Institutes of Health.
In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and
sustained effort from both our
public and private sectors — including a robust
investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.
«Because whether it's
public universities, cutting - edge businesses that are well established or early - stage startups, if we want to see American researchers and innovators pulling together to achieve our national potential now and in the future, we have to commit to these crucial
investments today and by
sustaining them for the long - term.»
«We're here today to celebrate the governor's goal to support student success by his
investment... It's this
investment that will better position us to be on the leading edge with our academic programs and will increase
public higher education's role in
sustaining and expanding economic vitality for this state of Connecticut.»
Among those who care about cutting the chances that humans will propel
sustained and disruptive changes in the climate and oceans, this reality still tends to result in two mindsets: Raise
public will to accelerate deployment of today's relatively costly non-polluting energy choices (both renewable and nuclear) or press for intensified and
sustained investments and policies that can spur energy innovation.
But it's building from a paltry base of both
public and private
investment in the energy arenas where breakthroughs could really expand the menu of energy options required to
sustain a prospering, healthy planet as the human growth spurt crests.
If private firms are unlikely to make
sustained investments in the development of those technologies, what role should the
public sector play in undertaking those activities?
The
public sector has been indispensible in advancing transformative innovations, and must remain so by making massive
investments in science and technology, often
sustained over decades, and using its power of procurement to create new markets for nascent products.
Six specific strategies are identified in Elevate Maines plan:
Investments that will be implemented statewide: Campaign to raise
public awareness: Elevate Maine will increase
public knowledge about the important relationship between high quality early learning and
sustained educational and lifelong success.