Mr Hu says that China will go further in the coming years, by trying to cut the carbon emissions per dollar of GDP produced, for example by developing renewable and nuclear energy.

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There are also real long-term savings to be achieved, for example, by developing a single airframe that can perform numerous validated missions thereby avoiding redundant, multi-billion dollar development programs.

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These activists put this approach into practice, for example at the Brixton mosque in south London, by developing initiatives in the community to engage young people in discussions of foreign policy, identity and the meaning of religious terms like jihad, in order to counter those who advocate violence against fellow citizens.

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An example is the pool established by the international partnership Unitaid to provide HIV patients in developing countries with access to affordable anti-retroviral drugs.

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Developing economies, for example, have a whole decade to cut the value of their export subsidies by 24% and the volume of subsidized exports by 14%.

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Recent example: helping a top semiconductor maker quickly diversify out of the depressed memory business by developing complex new systems on a chip.

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By contrast, the UN report cited the case of Bolivia as an example of good practice in the developing world.

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