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Rio Tinto chief economist expects rough year for commodity prices - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 04 Mar 09
     
    Global miner Rio Tinto expects 2009 to be a rough year in terms of both prices and volumes for key commodities, the firm's chief economist said on Wednesday
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Nanotechnology: The coolness of tiny things | The Economist - 0 views

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  • The second problem is which particles to use. At the moment oxides of metals such as zinc and copper seem to be the favourites, but tiny tubes made of carbon are also being explored.
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Economists: Financial turmoil may mean opportunity for Romania - People's Daily Online - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 18 Sep 08
     
    Low labor costs could lead to relocations of large producers coupled with the depreciation of the national currency leu. It could boost exporters' business despite negative impact on consumption, the report said, citing Lucian Anghel, chief economist of the Romanian Commercial Bank.
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Why Africa is becoming less dependent on commodities - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 12 Jan 15
     
    "These days a larger proportion of African economies save money during the good times, then spend during bad. As a result, a commodity-price downturn need not provoke a recession: the government can take up some of the economic slack. "
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Pickard is new Director of Commodities, ISRI - 0 views

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  • Joseph C Pickard has been appointed as Chief Economist and Director of Commodities at The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI), succeeding Bob Garino, ISRI's Director of Commodities for the past 25 years. Pickard is currently serving as an economist for The International Copper Study Group in Lisbon, Portugal
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Chile's copper industry: Reviving Codelco | The Economist - 0 views

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  • After rescuing the miners, the state copper giant has other work to do
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2009 sustainability - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 26 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 26 Feb 09
     
    Following on from its 2008 report on corporate sustainability, the Economist Intelligence Unit has released a major new research report at its 2009 Sustainability Summit, focusing specifically on climate change and what it means for business. The research was sponsored by the Carbon Trust, KPMG, SAP and Shell.
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Rio Tinto sees copper price surging to fresh peaks | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 11 Jul 08
     
    LONDON (Reuters) - Copper prices could hit fresh record highs this year as the Chinese economy continues to expand despite a slowdown in the United States, the chief economist of miner Rio Tinto (RIO.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday.
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U.N. Environment Programme Launches Green Economy Initiative - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 03 Nov 08
     
    The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and leading economists are calling for a radical shift to a new "green" economy.
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UN spotlights five key areas to spur sustainable economic recovery - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 20 Mar 09
     
    The Policy Brief for a Global Green New Deal, developed by economists and the UN ahead of the G-20 meeting of world leaders in London in early April, highlights the benefits of investing a significant amount of the $3 trillion-worth of global stimulus packages in five areas. According to a news release issued by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), these areas include raising the energy efficiency of old and new buildings, as well as renewable energies including wind, solar, geothermal and biomass.
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The Decline (or Death?) of the Shopping Mall in America on PSFK - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 07 Jan 08 - Cached
  • As sacred as ancestral shrines in Japan, mosques in Iran, or beaches in Brazil, the shopping mall has for decades been a place of worship in the United States. Since its inception in the 1940s, it’s grown to define and represent the very culture of mainstream America - and like other representations of the American culture, the mall has been copied and appropriated by nations the world over. But now, while sprawling indoor shopping centers and hypermarkets flourish in far-off countries of the first, second, and third worlds, the mall in America might be on its way out. Not one new indoor shopping mall will be built in America till at least 2009, compared to 5 built in 2005. In 2002 just 19% of U.S. retail purchases were made in malls, down from 38% in 1995. A December 19 article in the Economist tries to pinpoint the reasons behind the decline:
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A special report on waste: Talking rubbish | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 11 May 09
     
    Entrepreneurs were queuing up to scour rubbish for anything that could be recycled. There was even talk of mining old landfills to extract steel and aluminium cans. And waste that could not be recycled should at least be used to generate energy, the evangelists argued. A brave new wasteless world seemed nigh. But since then plummeting prices for virgin paper, plastic and fuels, and hence also for the waste that substitutes for them, have put an end to such visions. Many of the recycling firms that had argued rubbish was on the way out now say that unless they are given financial help, they themselves will disappear.
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Wireless charging | Adaptor die | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 24 Apr 09
     
    Consumer electronics: A new push is under way to let mobile devices off the leash by doing away with their dependence on power cables
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Is China recession proof? - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 28 May 09
     
    Is China recession proof? A panel of leading Chinese economists explains how the world's fastest-growing economy keeps expanding despite the global downturn.
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IEA report to the G8 - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 27 May 09 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 27 May 09
     
    IEA's dire warning on green stimulus and renewables Kate Mackenzie, Financial Times The IEA's report for G8 energy ministers, to be presented this Sunday in Rome, has generated a few stories. Some picked up on the oil supply squeeze that awaits the world due to massive cuts in production investment. I wrote yesterday that the IEA forecasts that, for the first time since World War II, world electricity consumption will decline in 2009. IEA chief economist Fatih Birol said he personally thought the electricity forecast was the most striking finding of the report. However he was also keen to highlight concern about green spending in the G20 stimulus packages: The agency will also tell ministers that its calculation of the stimulus spending required from G20 nations on renewable energy was inadequate and should rise by a factor of six if greenhouse gas emissions targets set by the United Nations were to be met... (22 May 2008)
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C-Level and Other Executives Suffer Energy Efficiency Perception Gap, Survey ... - 0 views

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  • Glycon Garcia on 24 Mar 11
     
    Top-level executives disagree with other senior executives on how much their companies are doing to address energy efficiency, according to a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). In the survey by EIU and Ingersoll-Rand, 49 percent of C-suite executives said their organizations do not do enough to integrate energy efficiency into business strategy, compared to 61 percent of executives below that level.
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EIU global GDP forecasts - 0 views

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  • The Economist Intelligence Unit envisages at least some pick-up in momentum in major economies later in 2013, which will set the stage for a better 2014.
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The BRICs and beyond: prospects, challenges and opportunities - 0 views

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  • The report concludes that the emerging economies are set to grow much faster than the G7 over the next four decades. Figures for average growth in GDP in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms (which adjusts for price level differences across countries) show Nigeria leading the way over the period from 2012 to 2050, followed by Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. John Hawksworth, PwC Chief Economist and co-author of the report, explains: "The global financial crisis has hit the G7 much harder than the E7 in the short term. And it has also caused downward revisions in the estimates of longer term trend growth in the G7 – particularly those economies in Europe and the US that had previously relied on excessive public and private borrowing to drive growth.” This means that, in PPP terms: The E7 could overtake the G7 before 2020 By 2050 China, the US and India could be by far the largest economies – with a big gap to Brazil in fourth place, ahead of Japan And by the same time, Russia, Mexico and Indonesia could be bigger than Germany or the UK; Turkey could overtake Italy; and Nigeria could rise up the league table, as could Vietnam and South Africa in the longer term. Beyond the largest economies, Malaysia has considerable long-term growth potential, while Poland could continue to outpace its Western European neighbours for some decades to come.
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