ENERGY

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  It analyses ways to reduce the amount of resource (e.g. water, energy, or materials)

• needed for the production, consumption and disposal.

At the global level several key principles have emerged to guide sustainability efforts:

• Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation - managing economic growth to

• be less resource intensive and less polluting.

• Preventing irreversible long-term damage to ecosystems and human health.

• Ensuring distributional equity - avoiding unfair or high environmental costs on vulnerable populations.

Clean Energy Trends

• created by Clean Edge

• reports which examine markets for clean energy technologies, such as:

• solar;

• wind;

• geothermal;

• fuel cells;

• biofuels.