David Victor's Research Quoted in Business Day
Confronting Obama's clean energy vision for America
02/13/2010
Abubakar Nuhu Ko,
Business Day
There are also increasing challenges posed by some notable emerging market countries such as China and South Korea. For example, according to a very recent paper co-authored and published in the Foreign Affairs Journal (January/February 2010 edition) by Professor David G. Victor of University of California, San Diego and Linda Yueh of the University of Oxford: "$2.5 trillion is being spent globally to stimulate the world economy. The United States and China alone are spending $1.5 trillion, including a large fraction on energy projects. South Korea has devoted 85 percent of its stimulus package on green investments, promoting energy efficiency and low-emissions power plants. The British government has set aside hundreds of millions of pounds to support research and development in green industries."
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David Victor is director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, based at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
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