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The Obama White House – what can green business expect?
Now the really hard work begins. The party might still be going on and my ex-pat US colleagues might have not yet made it into the office this morning after a rather late night. But as the world soaks in the historic implications of Barack Obama`s landslide victory, it will also be asking itself what an Obama White House actually means. For the green and cleantech sectors the question has a certain urgency.
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Seizing the moment: WRI`s strategic plan
A quarter century ago, the founders of the World Resources Institute (WRI) displayed a prescient awareness of an urgent need for research and solutions to emerging environmental, resource, population, and development problems. The most serious of these global threats — deforestation, desertification and global climate change — had become clear in the 1960’s and 1970’s but were not yet considered priority issues for the governments of the United States and other industrialized countries.
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