Business & management:
• The UN is highlighting 5 key areas for investment that could help revive the global economy and boost employment while at the same time, accelerating the fight against climate change, environmental degradation and poverty.
• The status of the US dollar is under threat again, with a UN panel recommending this week, that the world abandon the dollar as its reserve currency, and instead adopt a collection of currencies, something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, which was a hard-traded, weighted basket.
• The World Trade Organisation is expecting exports to drop by 9% in volume in 2009, the biggest drop since World War 2.
• An alternative approach to getting rid of the unwanted stuff that clutters peoples homes has appeared, one writer calling it “unconsumption”. Rather than dumping goods for disposal in landfills, people are now using websites that allow them to advertise used items they want to give away, with even Facebook taking part in the trend.
• 65% of US companies surveyed say that they value environmental and sustainability knowledge in job candidates and 78% of companies said that value will rise in the next 5 years. Companies are increasingly educating their employees about goals in these areas.
• US insurers with annual premiums above $500 million must disclose climate change risks to investors and regulators for the first time from 2010, with the introduction of the requirement to file Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Surveys.
• Research commissioned by the Holiday Accommodation Parks Association of New Zealand shows that while staying at holiday parks, travellers contribute at least $623 million in direct expenditure and support a wide range of businesses in the community.
Education
• A blog aimed specifically at baby boomers and seniors comes from a school that has been developing tools specific to helping seniors learn how to use the computer and the Internet.
• IBM staff have been converted to become fans of attending conferences in Second Life, after attending a Virtual World Conference and an Annual Meeting of IBM’s Academy of Technology.
Environment & sustainability:
• Water is critical to energy production, but the water / energy “nexus” can be overlooked. The World Economic Forum and Cambridge Energy Research Associates have just published “Energy Vision Update 2009. Thirsty energy: water and energy in the 21st Century”.
• NZs largest representative body in the water industry is changing its name. Water New Zealand is now the trading name of the New Zealand Water and Wastes Association. The change has been made to reflect the need for a more cohesive approach to the management, use and conservation of water.
• A UK conference on the emerging role of green infrastructure in creating sustainable towns and cities and successful places was held in London this week. The conference highlights official advice to the UK government to move spending out of “grey” projects, and into “green” schemes like parks.
• The Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center has concluded in a paper, that while the US government is likely to use market-led mechanisms (cap and trade, or carbon tax) to reduce CO2 emissions, it is not enough on its own to reduce emissions adequately by the middle of the century.
• The McKinsey Global Institute is predicting another oil-shock as soon as 2010 to 2013. As soon as economies are moving ahead again, the Institute expects that increased energy demand will inevitably force the price of oil up again.
• The Accenture Intelligent City Network with members from the U.S., China, Russia and the Netherlands, aims to bring utilities and city governments from around the world together to collaborate on putting smart grids in place.
Health & wellbeing:
• The NZ Institute of Safety Management is moving to join an internationally recognised occupational safety and health development program.
• Keeping an eye on elderly dementia sufferers can mean carers are forced to diminish the sufferers’ enjoyment of small freedoms. A care home in the UK is making use of satnav technology that allows dementia sufferers to take “walkabouts” without carers having to become restrictive.
Law & Government:
• Concerns are expressed in the UK, about public sector organisations needing to make sure that their communications network infrastructure offers appropriate built-in reliability and security and is protected with continuity schemes that guarantee accessibility when people need them during large-scale disasters.
People, culture & diversity:
• In the last 3 years, social networking has provided internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Use of Twitter and similar services is high amongst the young, but user figures drop rapidly by increasing age.
• A grandparent organisation in the UK has released a report that highlights the huge role grandparents play in caring for grandchildren whose parents work and in family life. There have been calls for tax breaks for grandparents who are carers, and “granny leave” for working grandparents when a grandchild is born.
Science, technology & transport:
• A UK transport select committee report is suggesting ways that councils could be involved in attempts to reduce traffic congestion caused by the school run, including providing free bikes, using American-style yellow buses and increasing free public transport.
• Abandoned fuel stations in London could get a new life, by being converted into fast charge stations for electric-powered vehicles.
• A US Dept of Energy laboratory has discovered that simply changing truck tires from dual tires to single wide tires increases fuel efficiency by 6-10%.
• Toronto is another North American city moving more quickly towards introducing electric vehicles to its roads.
Thursday, 26 March 2009
Thursday, 19 March 2009
From the LOGIS news alert subscriptions (ending 19/03):
Business & management:
• Taking a boss hostage during disputes between them and their staff is becoming an increasingly common protest gesture in France.
• Switzerland has opened up its legendary system of bank secrecy and agreed to hand over information on wealthy clients suspected of tax evasion, following international pressure.
• Since the 1960s, teachers mainly in the US but also in the UK, have used Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz as an allegory of the economic depression of the late 19th Century.
• Resolution of equal pay claims in the UK is bogged down, with a 500% rise in claims in the last 4 years leaving employment tribunals struggling.
• A Pacific Institute report has concluded that the impacts of declining water quality and availability will be “far-reaching” for business and industry in the developed as well as the developing world.
Education
• The report on bullying in NZ schools is available from the website of the Children’s Commissioner.
• UK research conducted on behalf of the Good Schools Guide confirms what many parents of daughters have found - girls are far more likely to thrive, pass exams and stay in education if they go to a single-sex school.
• The first Maori language curriculum for mainstream schools was launched today. The launch is “a milestone for race relations in general because it will enable all NZ children to experience some Maori language from the very beginning of their schooling.”
Environment & sustainability:
• Local Government Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit was launched at the 'Adaptation to Climate Change Forum' in Melbourne in early March.
• According to China’s top climate change negotiator, consumer countries should take responsibility for the carbon emissions generated in the manufacture of goods, not the producer countries that export them.
• An executive officer of the Sydney Coastal Councils Group that has just received a report on climate change says, “Councils …...are a bit scared to declare the risks to their communities because they are waiting for direction from the state government”.
• The Swedish city of Kalmar is a coastal industrial city that has become the model for what all of Sweden hopes to achieve in becoming carbon neutral by mid-century.
• IBM has published a report that examines the opportunities and challenges of strategic water management. Five case studies provide perspectives from projects around the world.
• An economist at the Copenhagen climate change conference has said that the Kyoto protocol is “inefficient and ineffective” and should be dropped in favour of global carbon taxation. Scientists at the conference produced a list of 6 key messages about climate change.
Law & Government:
• Proposals about a Digital Rights Agency have been launched in the UK as part of the Digital Britain report, to trigger debate on the subject. The report highlights attitude changes in the digital age, saying consumers are no longer prepared to be told when and where they can access content.
• An Australian report on local government and the constitution, says that local government “is and always has been weak - a "servant" of the states - but recognition in the Australian constitution would have its dangers”.
• The Sustainable Public Lighting in Australia Toolbox is a 'one-stop-shop' which enables councils to access reports, tools, guidelines, policy and news to keep up-to-date on sustainable public lighting.
People, culture & diversity:
• The British Library thinks it has “mislaid” 9000 books, while 4 million volumes are to eventually transfer from the Bodleian Library in Oxford to a storage site in Swindon.
• Symantec’s Online Living report has found that UK parents believe their children are online for 18.8 hours per month, when the true figure is 43.5 hours.
• The Australian Local Government Association has an “Ageing Toolbox” called “Planning for an ageing community”.
• An international expert on child-friendly cities is in NZ from 18-24 March to talk about how cities can be made better for children, and will be attending the NZ Community Boards' Conference.
Science, technology & transport:
• The Centre for Independent Studies, an Australian policy think tank, has produced a report on the Australian car industry that suggests intervention by the Australian government may not succeed in saving the industry there.
• Pedestrian behaviour when crossing roads varies greatly, depending on the country. A proposal to use count down timers on crossings in London has raised the suggestion that it will make pedestrians “feel inferior” to drivers.
• Digital security is an increasingly serious issue. A BBC programme has shown just how easy it is for someone to create their own low-value botnet (a network of hijacked home computers), and a survey of London commuters suggests that 4.2m Britons store data on their mobiles that could be used in identity theft if the mobile is stolen.
• A conference in the UK has been told that the paper-like layered interfaces of systems like Windows, Linux and Mac OS requiring mouse, keyboard and desktop graphical interfaces will be replaced by gesture and touch interfaces.
• Taking a boss hostage during disputes between them and their staff is becoming an increasingly common protest gesture in France.
• Switzerland has opened up its legendary system of bank secrecy and agreed to hand over information on wealthy clients suspected of tax evasion, following international pressure.
• Since the 1960s, teachers mainly in the US but also in the UK, have used Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz as an allegory of the economic depression of the late 19th Century.
• Resolution of equal pay claims in the UK is bogged down, with a 500% rise in claims in the last 4 years leaving employment tribunals struggling.
• A Pacific Institute report has concluded that the impacts of declining water quality and availability will be “far-reaching” for business and industry in the developed as well as the developing world.
Education
• The report on bullying in NZ schools is available from the website of the Children’s Commissioner.
• UK research conducted on behalf of the Good Schools Guide confirms what many parents of daughters have found - girls are far more likely to thrive, pass exams and stay in education if they go to a single-sex school.
• The first Maori language curriculum for mainstream schools was launched today. The launch is “a milestone for race relations in general because it will enable all NZ children to experience some Maori language from the very beginning of their schooling.”
Environment & sustainability:
• Local Government Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit was launched at the 'Adaptation to Climate Change Forum' in Melbourne in early March.
• According to China’s top climate change negotiator, consumer countries should take responsibility for the carbon emissions generated in the manufacture of goods, not the producer countries that export them.
• An executive officer of the Sydney Coastal Councils Group that has just received a report on climate change says, “Councils …...are a bit scared to declare the risks to their communities because they are waiting for direction from the state government”.
• The Swedish city of Kalmar is a coastal industrial city that has become the model for what all of Sweden hopes to achieve in becoming carbon neutral by mid-century.
• IBM has published a report that examines the opportunities and challenges of strategic water management. Five case studies provide perspectives from projects around the world.
• An economist at the Copenhagen climate change conference has said that the Kyoto protocol is “inefficient and ineffective” and should be dropped in favour of global carbon taxation. Scientists at the conference produced a list of 6 key messages about climate change.
Law & Government:
• Proposals about a Digital Rights Agency have been launched in the UK as part of the Digital Britain report, to trigger debate on the subject. The report highlights attitude changes in the digital age, saying consumers are no longer prepared to be told when and where they can access content.
• An Australian report on local government and the constitution, says that local government “is and always has been weak - a "servant" of the states - but recognition in the Australian constitution would have its dangers”.
• The Sustainable Public Lighting in Australia Toolbox is a 'one-stop-shop' which enables councils to access reports, tools, guidelines, policy and news to keep up-to-date on sustainable public lighting.
People, culture & diversity:
• The British Library thinks it has “mislaid” 9000 books, while 4 million volumes are to eventually transfer from the Bodleian Library in Oxford to a storage site in Swindon.
• Symantec’s Online Living report has found that UK parents believe their children are online for 18.8 hours per month, when the true figure is 43.5 hours.
• The Australian Local Government Association has an “Ageing Toolbox” called “Planning for an ageing community”.
• An international expert on child-friendly cities is in NZ from 18-24 March to talk about how cities can be made better for children, and will be attending the NZ Community Boards' Conference.
Science, technology & transport:
• The Centre for Independent Studies, an Australian policy think tank, has produced a report on the Australian car industry that suggests intervention by the Australian government may not succeed in saving the industry there.
• Pedestrian behaviour when crossing roads varies greatly, depending on the country. A proposal to use count down timers on crossings in London has raised the suggestion that it will make pedestrians “feel inferior” to drivers.
• Digital security is an increasingly serious issue. A BBC programme has shown just how easy it is for someone to create their own low-value botnet (a network of hijacked home computers), and a survey of London commuters suggests that 4.2m Britons store data on their mobiles that could be used in identity theft if the mobile is stolen.
• A conference in the UK has been told that the paper-like layered interfaces of systems like Windows, Linux and Mac OS requiring mouse, keyboard and desktop graphical interfaces will be replaced by gesture and touch interfaces.
Thursday, 12 March 2009
From the LOGIS news alert subscriptions (ending 12/03):
Business & management:
• A Cheshire salt mine still in operation is being used to store valuable archives, book collections and artifacts.
• The UN World Tourism Organisation says that the tourism industry has a key role to play in helping the world recover from the current financial crisis. Tourism growth in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to ease, while the Americas and Europe will be impacted the most.
• In an address delivered on International Women’s Day, Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Dr Judy McGregor made the point that while every NZer is concerned about job security as the economic recession bites, women suffer a double whammy because of the gender pay gap.
• A recent US study has found that shopping online has less of an environmental impact than going to a traditional bricks-and-mortar store.
Education
• A school in the UK is trialling the use of facial recognition software to confirm attendance, rather than using the old-fashioned roll-call. Using biometrics in schools in the UK is widespread, but some campaigners say that schools’ use of biometrics is "a disproportionate response to a nonexistent problem".
• The chief executive of a UK university says that in the 21st century, higher education must adapt to serve the needs of a much wider section of the community than simply fresh-faced 18-year-olds.
Environment & sustainability:
• Water banking has been suggested recently for NZ’s future water management. Western states in the US have invested heavily in water banking, and the Washington State Dept of Ecology has released a report, Analysis of water banks in the Western states, which covers legislation, policies and programmes.
• An American think tank brought together prominent climate change deniers for a convention in New York this week. Although 58% of Americans believe human activity is causing climate change, many don’t see a need for urgent action. (For an alternative view of the background of the deniers, visit Grist, a US environmental news and commentary website.
• David J C Mackay is Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He has just written a detailed analysis of sustainable energy, and the book is available for download from the Web.
• James Lovelock (developer of the Gaia theory) has joined a former UK environment minister to condemn the European carbon trading scheme, saying it has proved to be "disastrous" and a "scam" in which companies have profited with no effect on emissions.
• A growing number of scientists and business leaders have concluded that there will need to be a 60-80% reduction in worldwide emissions in the next two to three decades, but climate impacts from greenhouse gas levels expected by 2050 will persist for about 1,000 years regardless of how well decision makers reduce future emissions.
Health & wellbeing:
• The World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Society have launched the 3rd edition of the Tobacco Atlas (note also the World Health Organisation’s Tobacco Atlas) which includes interactive maps of global statistics relating to many aspects of the tobacco industry and its impact on health.
• The latest issue of Australasian Leisure Management refers in an article to the Australian draft national planning guidelines in the “Healthy Places and Spaces” project. Fact sheets, a consultation report , the draft and presentations are available via the website.
• Paranoia is a mental disorder once thought to afflict 1% of the population but now, according to studies, it affects a quarter of us. Environment, social influence, and the role of the media are discussed in a new book that discusses why paranoia may be on the rise.
• Mental health difficulties are most pronounced in countries that are rich but have high levels of income and social inequality. It is inequality that has the most profound and far-reaching consequences for individuals and wider society. These are conclusions from a report for the World Health Organisation on mental health in Europe.
Law & Government:
• The Reserves and Other Lands Disposal (ROLD) Bill has finally passed its first reading. The bill covers areas all over the country, including Albert Park and volcanic cones in Auckland.
• The introduction of “young mayors” in the UK has had a positive impact on issues that affect or are of concern to teenagers and raises involvement in the democratic process. As a result the initiative is to be expanded.
People, culture & diversity:
• European archives have been dealt a devastating blow with the collapse of the 6-storey building containing the Cologne archives. Microfilm duplicates of some of the archives are in a central warehouse in the Black Forest, but 26k of original materials were held in the 1971 building, dating from as early as 922.
• A large and powerful group of leaders’ wives in the Arab world, not well-known in the West, is influencing policies and attitudes towards women in 15 of the 22 Arab countries.
• A UK headmaster has suggested that giving teenagers another 2 hours to sleep in the morning would improve their ability to learn. Unfortunately, for any parents who might object scientists are proving that there is a good reason for letting teenagers have more sleep.
• According to David Armano, technology doesn't change human nature, but it changes human behaviour, because it allows us to communicate more quickly and easily. That results in networks, which have begun to take the place of institutions in the function of major roles in society. Armano describes this in his presentation “The microsociology of networks”.
• A new book argues that the single root cause of almost every social problem common in developed societies is inequality.
Science, technology & transport:
• A report from UK think tank Demos “Knowledge Nomads” explains who this new, global breed of scientists are, what motivates them and why their movement around the world is so important.
• A UK commentator explains why simply building technological infrastructure won't be enough to drive digital innovation in the UK.
• US & Japanese researchers have been able to prove the existence of a "spin battery," a battery that is "charged" by applying a large magnetic field to nano-magnets in a device called a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). Meanwhile, research continues on how to get more energy out of lithium batteries, and MIT researchers believe that they have found a way to do this with only simple changes to the production process.
• A UK Nielsen survey of users' habits found that 67% of all those going online were spending time at social network and blogging sites, and that they are becoming more popular than personal e-mail.
• A US congressional investigation has revealed that plans to refurbish Trident nuclear weapons had to be put on hold because US scientists "lost knowledge" of how to make a mysterious but very hazardous material codenamed Fogbank.
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has said that browsing habits can now be monitored as if someone had put a "TV camera in one's room". He believes the integrity of the internet is under threat if online "snooping" goes unchecked.
• The city of Yokohama will jointly participate with Nissan in a 5-year project aimed at achieving zero emission-mobility. This follows a joint study completed in November last year, and the project will mean that the city adopts a zoning system with a zero-carbon central zone and a low-carbon zone in the outer areas.
• The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority has contracted a company to develop electronic vehicle charging infrastructure guidelines for planning design and installation of the infrastructure for plug-in vehicles.
• Mercedes has joined the sceptics who question the feasibility of the battery-swapping idea behind the Better Place concept for electric vehicles. Mercedes says they exhaustively studied the idea in the 1970s, and rejected it as potentially dangerous.
• The first new research for more than 50 years in the UK into the relationship between street lighting and road traffic accidents, will be published in the next few weeks. The report is not expected to support the widely held belief that street lighting reduces accidents by up to 30%. However, there are acute public fears that any switch-off will lead to higher crime rates.
• Energy generation using the ocean is on the rise with increasing numbers of commercial sites already generating power around the world, and a large number of other projects being tested.
• A Cheshire salt mine still in operation is being used to store valuable archives, book collections and artifacts.
• The UN World Tourism Organisation says that the tourism industry has a key role to play in helping the world recover from the current financial crisis. Tourism growth in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to ease, while the Americas and Europe will be impacted the most.
• In an address delivered on International Women’s Day, Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Dr Judy McGregor made the point that while every NZer is concerned about job security as the economic recession bites, women suffer a double whammy because of the gender pay gap.
• A recent US study has found that shopping online has less of an environmental impact than going to a traditional bricks-and-mortar store.
Education
• A school in the UK is trialling the use of facial recognition software to confirm attendance, rather than using the old-fashioned roll-call. Using biometrics in schools in the UK is widespread, but some campaigners say that schools’ use of biometrics is "a disproportionate response to a nonexistent problem".
• The chief executive of a UK university says that in the 21st century, higher education must adapt to serve the needs of a much wider section of the community than simply fresh-faced 18-year-olds.
Environment & sustainability:
• Water banking has been suggested recently for NZ’s future water management. Western states in the US have invested heavily in water banking, and the Washington State Dept of Ecology has released a report, Analysis of water banks in the Western states, which covers legislation, policies and programmes.
• An American think tank brought together prominent climate change deniers for a convention in New York this week. Although 58% of Americans believe human activity is causing climate change, many don’t see a need for urgent action. (For an alternative view of the background of the deniers, visit Grist, a US environmental news and commentary website.
• David J C Mackay is Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He has just written a detailed analysis of sustainable energy, and the book is available for download from the Web.
• James Lovelock (developer of the Gaia theory) has joined a former UK environment minister to condemn the European carbon trading scheme, saying it has proved to be "disastrous" and a "scam" in which companies have profited with no effect on emissions.
• A growing number of scientists and business leaders have concluded that there will need to be a 60-80% reduction in worldwide emissions in the next two to three decades, but climate impacts from greenhouse gas levels expected by 2050 will persist for about 1,000 years regardless of how well decision makers reduce future emissions.
Health & wellbeing:
• The World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Society have launched the 3rd edition of the Tobacco Atlas (note also the World Health Organisation’s Tobacco Atlas) which includes interactive maps of global statistics relating to many aspects of the tobacco industry and its impact on health.
• The latest issue of Australasian Leisure Management refers in an article to the Australian draft national planning guidelines in the “Healthy Places and Spaces” project. Fact sheets, a consultation report , the draft and presentations are available via the website.
• Paranoia is a mental disorder once thought to afflict 1% of the population but now, according to studies, it affects a quarter of us. Environment, social influence, and the role of the media are discussed in a new book that discusses why paranoia may be on the rise.
• Mental health difficulties are most pronounced in countries that are rich but have high levels of income and social inequality. It is inequality that has the most profound and far-reaching consequences for individuals and wider society. These are conclusions from a report for the World Health Organisation on mental health in Europe.
Law & Government:
• The Reserves and Other Lands Disposal (ROLD) Bill has finally passed its first reading. The bill covers areas all over the country, including Albert Park and volcanic cones in Auckland.
• The introduction of “young mayors” in the UK has had a positive impact on issues that affect or are of concern to teenagers and raises involvement in the democratic process. As a result the initiative is to be expanded.
People, culture & diversity:
• European archives have been dealt a devastating blow with the collapse of the 6-storey building containing the Cologne archives. Microfilm duplicates of some of the archives are in a central warehouse in the Black Forest, but 26k of original materials were held in the 1971 building, dating from as early as 922.
• A large and powerful group of leaders’ wives in the Arab world, not well-known in the West, is influencing policies and attitudes towards women in 15 of the 22 Arab countries.
• A UK headmaster has suggested that giving teenagers another 2 hours to sleep in the morning would improve their ability to learn. Unfortunately, for any parents who might object scientists are proving that there is a good reason for letting teenagers have more sleep.
• According to David Armano, technology doesn't change human nature, but it changes human behaviour, because it allows us to communicate more quickly and easily. That results in networks, which have begun to take the place of institutions in the function of major roles in society. Armano describes this in his presentation “The microsociology of networks”.
• A new book argues that the single root cause of almost every social problem common in developed societies is inequality.
Science, technology & transport:
• A report from UK think tank Demos “Knowledge Nomads” explains who this new, global breed of scientists are, what motivates them and why their movement around the world is so important.
• A UK commentator explains why simply building technological infrastructure won't be enough to drive digital innovation in the UK.
• US & Japanese researchers have been able to prove the existence of a "spin battery," a battery that is "charged" by applying a large magnetic field to nano-magnets in a device called a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). Meanwhile, research continues on how to get more energy out of lithium batteries, and MIT researchers believe that they have found a way to do this with only simple changes to the production process.
• A UK Nielsen survey of users' habits found that 67% of all those going online were spending time at social network and blogging sites, and that they are becoming more popular than personal e-mail.
• A US congressional investigation has revealed that plans to refurbish Trident nuclear weapons had to be put on hold because US scientists "lost knowledge" of how to make a mysterious but very hazardous material codenamed Fogbank.
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has said that browsing habits can now be monitored as if someone had put a "TV camera in one's room". He believes the integrity of the internet is under threat if online "snooping" goes unchecked.
• The city of Yokohama will jointly participate with Nissan in a 5-year project aimed at achieving zero emission-mobility. This follows a joint study completed in November last year, and the project will mean that the city adopts a zoning system with a zero-carbon central zone and a low-carbon zone in the outer areas.
• The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority has contracted a company to develop electronic vehicle charging infrastructure guidelines for planning design and installation of the infrastructure for plug-in vehicles.
• Mercedes has joined the sceptics who question the feasibility of the battery-swapping idea behind the Better Place concept for electric vehicles. Mercedes says they exhaustively studied the idea in the 1970s, and rejected it as potentially dangerous.
• The first new research for more than 50 years in the UK into the relationship between street lighting and road traffic accidents, will be published in the next few weeks. The report is not expected to support the widely held belief that street lighting reduces accidents by up to 30%. However, there are acute public fears that any switch-off will lead to higher crime rates.
• Energy generation using the ocean is on the rise with increasing numbers of commercial sites already generating power around the world, and a large number of other projects being tested.
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