The majority of developing nations are set to miss out on the economic benefits of booming green technologies, slowing progress toward their climate goals and widening the inequality gap between rich and poor countries, a United Nations report warns. The U.N.’s agency for trade and development, or UNCTAD, said that unless the international community and […]
Stock photo: A worker finishing setting up a solar panel. LL28/iStock The majority of developing countries are doomed to miss out on the economic benefits of emerging green technology, according to a new United Nations report. This would hinder their progress toward achieving their climate objectives and exacerbate the gap between rich and poor countries, […]
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) may miss out on the benefits of the “green tech” revolution unless governments and the international community take decisive action now. “We are at the beginning of a technological revolution based on green technologies. This new wave of technological […]