The truth is the world is investing far too little in CCS and other low-carbon technologies.
So we need to urgently change our policies substantially towards using energy more efficiently and fostering low-carbon technologies.
Spreading low-carbon technologies there matters as much or more than decarbonising developed countries.
The market is designed to incentivise firms to adopt low-carbon technologies and practices.
Some large life and annuity companies have investment products aimed at low-carbon technologies.
Rather, they would provide a much-needed boost to the development of low-carbon technologies.
Some might add shale gas to that list as an intermediate step on the way to true low-carbon technologies.
Mr Connaughton argues that low-carbon technologies should be perfected before governments impose carbon taxes or cap-and-trade schemes to speed their adoption.
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Greenpeace argues that CCS will never be competitive, since other low-carbon technologies, such as wind power, are already cheaper and becoming more so as time passes.
Hitting the energy-efficiency targets would reduce demand for those permits, in which case their price might fall too low to encourage further investment into low-carbon technologies.
"The marine renewables industry must demonstrate its ability to be cost-competitive, compared with other low-carbon technologies, in the next 5-8 years if it is to engage commercial investors, " he said.
Labour's environment spokeswoman Sarah Boyack's amendment, which called on the government to use its powers to support the development of low-carbon technologies to underpin Scotland's recovery from economic recession, was unanimously agreed.
Drawing on global best practice policies, we undertake to remove barriers, establish incentives, enhance capacity-building, and implement appropriate measures to aggressively accelerate deployment and transfer of key existing and new low-carbon technologies, in accordance with national circumstances.
Mr Bellizia Aboaf cited the Committee on Climate Change, which advises the government and monitors its actions, and the Carbon Trust that promotes low-carbon technologies, as bodies of interest, and also the UK experience with public-private funding models.
That would be the surest way to spur the development and adoption of low-carbon energy technologies.
We are establishing a Global Partnership to drive transformational low-carbon, climate-friendly technologies.
Once we turn that corner, the energy-environment trade-off will start to work to our advantage, and possibly to the advantage of the whole world if we can develop low- or no-carbon energy technologies that can compete with cheap fossil fuels.
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