Green Growth, Green Profit
Green Growth, Green Profit

Author: Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-22

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0230303870

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Green business is here. It is a multi billion business with enormous growth potential, driven by megatrends such as demographic change, climate change and urbanization. It is driving the transformation of existing businesses and changing the way customers and suppliers act, forcing them to rethink their business strategy.

OECD Studies on SMEs and Entrepreneurship Policies to Support Green Entrepreneurship Building a Hub for Green Entrepreneurship in Denmark
OECD Studies on SMEs and Entrepreneurship Policies to Support Green Entrepreneurship Building a Hub for Green Entrepreneurship in Denmark

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9264565477

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Combatting climate change is among the most critical issues on the global policy agenda. The transition towards a greener economy will require a pivot towards more sustainable production processes and consumption patterns. Entrepreneurs have the potential to be a major driving force behind this effort through their capacity to develop and propagate innovative green solutions. To unlock this potential, it is crucial for policy makers to implement appropriate policies and measures that enable green entrepreneurs to thrive. This report identifies lessons from international policy practices in stimulating and supporting green entrepreneurship from three case study countries – Canada, Germany and Israel – to inform Denmark about effective policy practices and pitfalls to avoid as it implements initiatives to strengthen its green transition. Recommendations are offered across a number of areas such as promoting greater co-ordination between relevant policy actors, strengthening specialised support for green entrepreneurs and building green markets.

Empowering the Great Energy Transition
Empowering the Great Energy Transition

Author: Scott Valentine

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0231546424

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At a time when climate-change deniers hold the reins of power in the United States and international greenhouse gas negotiations continue at a slow crawl, what options are available to cities, companies, and consumers around the world who seek a cleaner future? Scott Victor Valentine, Marilyn A. Brown, and Benjamin K. Sovacool explore developments and strategies that will help fast-track the transition to renewable energy. They provide an expert analysis of the achievable steps that citizens, organizational leaders, and policy makers can take to put their commitments to sustainability into practice. Empowering the Great Energy Transition examines trends that suggest a transition away from carbon-intensive energy sources is inevitable—there are too many forces for change at work to stop a shift to clean energy. Yet under the status quo, change will be too slow to avert the worst consequences of climate change. Humanity is on a path to incur avoidable social, environmental, and economic costs. Valentine, Brown, and Sovacool argue that new policies and business models are needed to surmount the hurdles separating the current consumption model from a sustainable energy future. Empowering the Great Energy Transition shows that with well-placed efforts, we can set humanity on a course that supports entrepreneurs and communities in mitigating the environmental harm caused by technologies whose time has come and gone.

GreenTech made in Germany 2.0 - Deutsche Ausgabe
GreenTech made in Germany 2.0 - Deutsche Ausgabe

Author: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit

Publisher: Vahlen

Published: 2011-08-17

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 380064326X

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Der Klimaschutz und die Schonung der natürlichen Ressourcen gehören, gerade jetzt, wo die Weichen auf nachhaltiges Wachstum gestellt werden müssen, zu den großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Sie sind nur mit Hilfe innovativer Umwelt-technologien zu meistern. Schon heute ist die Umwelttechnikbranche in Deutsch-land, aber auch bei wichtigen internationalen Wettbewerbern, ein bedeutender Wirtschaftsfaktor, dessen Bedeutung noch zunehmen wird. „GreenTech made in Germany“, der Umwelttechnologie-Atlas für Deutsch-land, bietet einen Überblick über das gesamte Spektrum dieser Zukunfts-branche. Die im Auftrag des Bundesumweltministeriums von Roland Berger Strategy Consultants erstellte Publikation hat den Anspruch, die Umwelttechnologien repräsentativ darzustellen und ihren Beitrag für Innovation, Wachstum und Beschäftigung am Standort Deutschland aufzuzeigen. Dabei wird die Umwelttechnik-Branche in den Bundesländern eingehender untersucht, zudem wird die Förderpolitik der Länder beschrieben. Im Umwelttechnologie-Atlas werden technologische Trends, das wirtschaftliche Potenzial und regionale Schwerpunkte der Umwelttechnologien in der Bundesrepublik entlang von sechs Leitmärkten dargestellt: Umweltfreundliche Energieerzeugung und -speicherung Energieef?zienz Rohstoff- und Materialef?zienz Kreislaufwirtschaft Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft Nachhaltige Mobilität Um der zunehmenden Bedeutung internationaler Märkte Rechnung zu tragen, werden auch die wichtigsten internationalen Wettbewerber in Absatz- und Produktionsmärkten beleuchtet. Der Umwelttechnik-Atlas hat eine Servicefunktion: Dem neuen Atlas liegt dazu eine CD bei, auf der sich eine Datenbank be?ndet. Mit ausführlichen Pro?len von Unternehmen und Forschungseinrichtungen bietet sie Interessenten aus dem In- und Ausland einen Eindruck von der Vielschichtigkeit der Branche und gibt einen Überblick über konkrete Produkte, Dienstleistungen und Aktivitäten von Akteuren auf dem Feld der Umwelttechnologien in Deutschland. Das eigens für diesen Zweck entwickelte Programm erlaubt eine einfache und intuitive Bedienung und Suche.

Future Trends in Production Engineering
Future Trends in Production Engineering

Author: Günther Schuh

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-08-15

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 3642244912

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To meet and adapt to the current and future trends and issues in technology and society, the science committee of The German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP) continues to define future topics for production technology. These themes represent not only the key focus for the scientific work of the WGP, but also the central themes of the first annual conference in June 2011, whose paper is publically available in this volume. Such themes, including electric mobility, medical technology, lightweight construction, and resource efficiency, as well as mass production ability have all been identified as future, large-scale, and long-term drivers of change. Future trends influence changes sustainably and fundamentally; they permeate society, technology, economics, and value systems and have an effect in virtually all areas of life. The WGP has, as part of its research, established for itself the goal of not only observing these emerging changes, but also of supervising and influencing their development in order to ensure steady progress, secure sustainability, and shape the future.