A sustained fall in the oil price, for instance, would undermine investment in costlier, cleaner technologies.
But you are completely mistaken in suggesting that all subsidies to promote cleaner technologies are wrong.
That transfer of capital, in turn, could help developing countries invest in cleaner technologies.
Someone needs to pay for building retrofits or investments in newer, cleaner technologies.
Understanding consumer behavior is essential in designing policies that efficiently increase the uptake of cleaner technologies.
This move would encourage cleaner technologies but allow the market to choose which it favours and how much to pay.
R&D investment in cleaner technologies is to rise from $700m in 2005 to $1.5 billion in 2010.
It recommends putting a price on emissions as well as investments in energy efficiency, alternative fuels and developing cleaner technologies.
In theory, such measures encourage producers of pollution to make cleaner products or to use cleaner technologies.
This leftover trash stream may therefore present an opportunity to recover energy, using new and possibly cleaner technologies.
In other words, there is a short window of opportunity to begin inventing and deploying cleaner technologies.
