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==Description:==
==Description:==


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Climate Change as a push for urgent innovation <br>
With the ever increasing levels of greenhouse gases emissions, the calls for alternatives to the products causing such emissions through innovative technology to make energy consumption more efficient is ever-growing.<br>
The Copenhagen Conference of 2009, was supposed to be the summit that where a global consensus would be instituted, addressing climate change concerns amongst nations and companies
The 2009 scandal, where climatologists of the East Anglia University falsified data to discredit non-believers of the reasons behind the climate change has also seen a recent growth in scepticism over the existence of such changes itself.<br>


==Enablers:==
==Enablers:==
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ICT <br>
Economic and Environmental Benefits <br>
Non-Governmental Organizations & Pressure Groups <br>
Competitive Advantage of Organizations and economies <br>
New Business Opportunities <br>
Market Demand <br>
Trading scheme for carbon credits <br>


==Inhibitors:==
==Inhibitors:==
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Absence of policy benefits <br>
Cost Implications i.e. switch over costs <br>
Demand pressure on fossil fuels <br>
Emerging market economies <br>
Lack of political will and Global consensus <br>
Reduced investment in research due to the financial crisis <br>
Demographic development <br>
Rate and direction of technology changes <br>
 


==Paradigms:==
==Paradigms:==
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== Experts==
IPCC <br>
Scientists and Technologists <br>
Government Regulators <br>
==Timing:==
==Timing:==
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==Web Resources:==
==Web Resources:==
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http://www.carnegieendowment.org/events/?fa=eventDetail&id=2802 <br>
 
http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/DCMS_Climate_Change_Conference_report_11_02_08.pdf <br>
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jan/08/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment <br>


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Latest revision as of 14:59, 10 September 2010