Building up the necessary infrastructure is going to be a long and expensive process, which should be encouraged through public procurement, tax incentives and a big increase in R&D budgets.
Changing procurement priorities and incentives to require inclusion of facility costs and total cost of ownership in IT hardware selection decisions.
China alone has a "fabric of laws, regulations and directives which provide for preferential financing...tax incentives, procurement preferences, local content preferences, and R&D subsidies for their renewable energy equipment producers," according to a study commissioned by the National Foreign Trade Council last year.
Using public procurement as an incentive for new business models, moving from selling products to selling performance.
One could say the same about the enormous government procurements, subsidies and incentives meted out to the private sector.
It's governments that set the rules within which companies operate in terms of regulation, taxation, incentives, public procurement and so on.
Comprehensive policy packages are devised, which include framework design and equipment standardization, demand stimulation using fiscal incentives, cooperative procurement of large fleets of vehicles, the implementation of charging spots and the deployment of pilot projects in selected areas.
The current procurement process creates no incentives to prioritize outcomes over outputs.
Efforts or initiatives undertaken by the community and the government on green procurement, such as competitions/awards, incentive schemes, and executives' green procurement commitments and requirements, are considered important in the green procurement process.
To be effective, a policy package should combine all kinds of instruments in a comprehensive and balanced way: network management, framework conditions, economic incentives and fleet procurement, communication and diffusion, and multimodal transport policy.
