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Energy Market Liberalization in the European Union. A Never Ending Story?
Written by Corina Murafa
The European Union is big. When it comes to electricity, it consumes almost 3 billion MWh/ year, less than China and Russia, yet far more than any other country in the world. But is it really clever? Despite its fundamental flaw – which is that it cannot be stored easily […]
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Kenya Government Open Data to expand accountability and governance
Written by kachwanya
On 8th of July 2011 the Government of Kenya launched the Open Government Data Portal, the only government data portal in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has over 160 data sets including the complete 2009 Kenyan national census, national budget data, national and county expenditure, information on healthcare, schools and much more. […]
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New Technologies – A Boon and a Curse for India
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
India’s technological advances are being exploited for unhealthy social practices Has technology led to sex selective abortion becoming more rampant in India? The past 20 years have seen a significant rise in economic development in India and the country is now among the top ten performers in terms of gross […]
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The New Content Strategy for FutureChallenges
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The new content strategy strengthens the main focus of FutureChallenges: to rise awareness and to better understand the interdependencies of various megatrends. The “Local Views” (= blogposts by the international FC_org blogger team) are an important feature within this strategy. While on the previous platform – which was indeed a […]
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A Nuked up Jordan?
Written by Akrum Idrees
Since the Egyptian revolution in January-February 2011, the Egyptian gas pipe that supplies Jordan and Israel has been bombed 4 times up to the time of writing. Egyptian gas is vital for Jordan because with it Jordan generates 80% of its electricity. At this time particularly, all eyes are turned to the […]
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Reaching for the Stars
Written by Erin Riddell
It is an underappreciated fact that government, campaigners, scientists and our brightest business minds do share a consensus on one issue; that Australia is ideally situated for a green energy future. Our treasure trove of wind, wave, sun and geo-thermal heat has the capacity to supply us […]
