Many Germans abhor Green policies like doubling the price of petrol over the next few years.
Mr Osborne acknowledged that green policies were "piling costs on the energy bills of households and companies".
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This is an important advantage at a time of heightened sensitivity about the costs of green policies.
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But he, too, thinks that some green policies can actually boost the economy.
Critics will also point out that as chancellor, Mr Brown blocked many green policies, and some may question this latest initiative.
And he said the Lib Dems would open up their green policies to an independent audit so people could judge how effective they were.
In short, these green policies would cost jobs, not increase them.
Democrats may have a tougher time at the polls in general next year: Green policies like the state's renewable energy mandate, cap and trade and a low-carbon fuel standard will start kicking into high gear in 2014.
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President Obama, I'm not an environmentalist and I'm not a scientist, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that something is wrong in the environment if it's October, and the weather is as it is. (Laughter.) I recently -- I'm a Louisiana native, and I recently moved back home from California, where there, it was a big push for going green and environmental policies.
The Labour party and Green party said their policies would do the most to drive down fares and improve transport in London.
But we have also studied a lot of where the technology is going and where policies and green industries are going, especially like in Germany, for instance.
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One of the first areas where Professor Bahaj will contribute to the council's policies is in green building development.
Public policies that subsidize green investments and technical progress in alternative technologies have also helped to improve the business case for sustainability.
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Spread over nine equally-weighted categories, the scorecard rates colleges on factors like sustainable policies by administration, commitment to energy efficiency and conservation, food and recycling policies, campus-wide green building initiatives, student involvement, alternative transportation.
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But the government said policies such as those protecting the Green Belt, sites of special scientific interest, national parks and other areas could not "be overridden by the presumption".
Its chairman Andrew Green said it was "evidence that the government's policies are starting to take effect".
Brown suggested during the campaign that such policies would help create an estimated 500, 000 green jobs, but few outside the environmental lobby take this seriously.
Progressive environmental policies from the Chinese government combined with an increasingly green-minded public is fueling what some are calling a clean technology renaissance around the country.
Kate Green, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, said policies should not just be about getting people jobs, but getting them the right sort of jobs.
Speaking during a BBC webcast, the Scottish Green co-convener also said there were questions over SNP tax policy and argued that policies such as corporation tax cuts had increased inequality in a number of countries.
That ability depends, in part, on maintaining the right laws and policies, which is not a given today due to the long waits for green cards and the difficulty employers face in gaining approval for applications.
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The big unresolved question for the new donors, argues Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam, an NGO, is how far they adopt the policies and institutions of Western donors or how far they go their own way, blurring boundaries between aid and investment.
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While the re-election of President Obama is seen good news for green tech companies, whether the government will increase its financial support and successfully push for emission-reduction policies remain to be seen.
"Policy Net-Rainbow and Green" in Shizuoka prefecture rated all 34 candidates in its regional district by their past actions, remarks, policies and the way they did or did not respond to the group's questionnaire.
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