Renewable energy can help developing countries meet their sustainable development goals through access to clean, secure, reliable and affordable energy.
By developing and disseminating clean technology and sharing our know-how, we can help developing nations leap-frog dirty energy technologies and reduce dangerous emissions.
This gain will be spread over a couple of decades, so annual growth rates might increase by between 0.2% and 0.8% over the next ten years.The Internet can help developing countries catch up with developed ones, so lack of access will clearly prejudice their growth prospects.
In addition to reducing their emissions, the United Nations Development Program proposes a number of ways in which developed nations can help developing ones, like imposing an international currency tax to bring electricity to the 1.5 billion people who currently live without it.
To explore the theoretical foundations of CE, Brodie, Hollebeek, Juric, and Ilic [14] relied on relationship marketing theory and the S-D logic, to propose five fundamental propositions (FPs) that can help developing framework for further research to get deeper insights and refinements of the conceptual domain of CE.
In her contribution to our feature, Vibha Dhawan, director of India?s Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) in New Delhi describes how high-tech approaches can help developing countries tackle issues such as food, vitamin, and energy supply; deforestation; and environment-friendly agriculture.
