With other nations redoubling their efforts to create competitive clean tech industries, moving away from a clean energy economy would be shortsighted, to say the least.
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Now, getting these clean energy industries to locate here requires us to maintain a national commitment to new research and development.
The life sciences and clean technology industries had the highest percentage of women investors at 18 percent and 15 percent respectively.
And do any of you believe we can gain a political consensus for doing that without growing clean energy industries here in America?
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The report, put together by Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the Business Council on Sustainable Energy, seeks to highlight the successes of the clean power industries.
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Unfortunately it will do nothing to solve the root of the problem, which is that for 30 years Congress has done little to support the development of domestic clean energy industries.
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Overall, China views promotion of green sectors as sound industrial policy: it aims to be the world market leader in solar panels, wind turbines, fuel-efficient cars, and other clean energy industries.
As the Breakthrough Institute has consistently argued, taking clean energy alternatives to scale and building globally competitive clean energy industries will ultimately depend on such improvements in cost and performance.
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Japan, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Denmark and a host of other international competitors are also fast at work building domestic clean energy industries with a multifaceted focus on innovation, manufacturing, and markets.
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Yet while the White House report highlights the considerable clean energy momentum established by the Recovery Act, it also inadvertently raises the specter of an impending clean tech funding cliff which risks sending U.S. clean energy industries into deep freeze as stimulus funds begin to expire over the coming months.
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Meanwhile, other countries are producing a substantially larger portion of scientists, engineers, and researchers that will benefit their clean-tech industries.
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Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and industries that should be here in America.
We need to spur innovation and new industries like clean energy that will create the jobs of tomorrow.
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See, we want to invest in growth industries like clean energy and manufacturing.
In particular, investments now to catalyze competitive clean energy technologies and industries will pay big economic dividends down the line.
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But so, too, is his experience in government and his experience in the nonprofit sector, and his intimate understanding of clean energy development and industries.
Aldly said government support of industries in clean energy, defined broadly, is part of transforming the energy system and bringing down the cost of alternative energy.
And that means fostering a climate of innovation and entrepreneurship that will allow American businesses and American workers to lead in growth industries like clean energy.
These industries include clean renewable energy.
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And we need to provide incentives that will create new, clean energy sources for our industries.
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It was there in 1989 that he realized how many industries depended on clean water--and how few large suppliers there were.
This means cutting-edge research that holds the promise of creating countless jobs and whole new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has funded breakthrough innovation and new growth industries that are driving down the cost of clean energy and building the foundation for competitive 21st century U.S. industries, according to a new White House report released today on the impacts of the U.S. stimulus bill.
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A.s consider careers in industries like technology and clean energy, where companies tend to hire one or two students at a time, rather than in large numbers like at finance and consulting firms, traditional B-school employers.
There were significant parts of that Recovery Act to make investments that would create good jobs today, but while planting the seeds for great industries of tomorrow with clean energy being at the forefront and the heart of all of it.
The letter, organized by Beyond Zero Emissions, comes as a response to the failure of the much-compromised Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), which was pilloried as a giveaway to fossil fuel industries and ineffective for driving clean energy deployment.
Reports enumerating the economic benefits of state support for clean technology, in the form of industries fostered and jobs created, abound (although few of them examine the potential costs of such schemes, in the form of increased government debt and misallocated capital).
We should reward the people who are helping us lead in the industries of the future, like clean energy.
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We will continue to build a clean energy economy that creates the jobs and industries of the future within our borders.
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