Steve Sawyer may refer to: (wikipedia)
They're supposed to be working up an action plan with targets and timetables and the means of implementation. We can talk about partnerships after they've done that.
The break in the talks is a good thing for energy.
This is a very long way from a consensus document. It's a giant step backwards and ignores all the negative lessons of the 1970s oil shocks.
At this time, all we have are hints of the innovations. Agents and consumers are experimenting with new ways of engaging one another, consummating the transaction and sharing information.
The expectation was that real estate agents would go away once consumers could see all the home listing information, but the number of real estate agents has increased, not decreased, in the last 10 years.
Now that we've sent a major signal to the carbon markets that these will continue to grow after 2012 it should unlock a significant and increasing quantity of CDM projects.
If that's all that comes out of here then it's not enough.
The transformative nature of technology is not from increases in efficiency or effectiveness. The transformations are embedded in second-level effects--that is, the unimagined and unintended innovations that give rise to changes in organizations, markets and social interactions.
The Kyoto protocol doesn't amount to much in terms of emissions reductions but at least it breaks the curve (of rising emissions) among countries that have accepted its targets.
The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.