The G-7 nations are the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada. The group functions as a kind of global economic council.

七国集团包括美国、日本、德国、英国、法国、意大利和加拿大。这个集团的作用相当于某种全球经济委员会。

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According to a report published in 2009 by the Global Wind Energy Council, Japan, which generates 8.7% of the world's economic output, has just 1.3% of its capacity to make electricity from the air.

全球风能理事会在2009年的一个报告指出，日本这个经济占了全球经济总量的8.7%，风能发电却仅占到(可利用风能的容量的)1.3%。

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Carl Ganter is co-founder and managing director of Circle of Blue and is vice chariman of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Water Security.

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Furthermore, in 1996 the United Nations Economic and Social Council fully debated global fees and taxes.

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"We understand full well that the free flow of capital is a pillar of our leadership and competitiveness in the world, " says the Casey Institute's Roger W. Robinson, a former Reagan National Security Council senior director of international economic affairs who is widely credited as being behind the global transparency and disclosure initiative.

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