Will BRIC Beat the West in the Clean Tech Race?
Two interesting articles in the latest edition of Green Futures. One asks, given that everyone agrees that there is a great opportunity in the current economic climate to have a clean tech revolution and have a green economy emerge from the wreckage of the old one, why is it not happening? The second details the burgeoning clean tech sector in India with references to a similar tale in China*.
This sets up an interesting scenario. Will the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) economies leapfrog the West to win in the clean tech revolution? Will their economies emerge more robust and self sufficient than ours? Is it about time we got our collective fingers out?
It’s food for thought.
* Despite the “new power station every nanosecond” finger pointing scare stories about the world’s most populous country, I personally saw more solar hot water systems in one train journey in China five years ago than I have before or since.