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CPCT 14 जनवरी 2017 Shift - 1 English Typing Test (Type in 15 minutes)

created Jan 30th 2018, 13:08 by RakhiSoni


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Innovation has been humanity's saviour time and again. Antibiotics gave us longer lives. Airplanes dramatically expanded our access to the world. Internet has leapfrogged communication and the social matrix. Naturally the innovation engine is also our biggest hope in the battle against global warning. The real breakthrough will be clean energy solutions that are affordably priced. And one way to get there is by increasing R&D spending. If the Paris talks yield a solid and substantial increase in global means both governments and the private sector have to be on board. On the latter, the Breakthrough Energy Coalition that Bill Gates announced on the first day of the COP 21 talks is promising. The Sustainable Innovation Forum (SIF15) was the largest business focused event held during the annual Conference of Parties (COP) last year on 7-8 December at COP21 at Stade de Frace in Paris. Forum convened cross-sector participants from business, Government, finance to create an unparalleled opportunity to bolster business innovation and scale the emerging economy. It commits billionaires from across the world to invest big money in clean-energy technology. Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani are some of the notables. The driving idea is that incremental improvements just aren't enough given how many people are waiting to be unlocked from energy poverty. As Indian climate envoy Ajay Mathur has said, people have to lead a worthwhile life on a worthwhile planet. Or as Gates said, you can't tell somebody who doesn't have lights they should cut down on energy usage. Developed countries have occupied vastly more carbon space then developing countries so they must bear the greater burden for battling this. India is willing to cut back its investments in coal if developed countries give it proper financial and technological assistance to shift to cleaner energy. It's unjust to ask the poor to choose either green or growth. The Breakthrough Energy Coalition could become a good example of the rich taking responsibility and leadership commensurate with their greater wealth and technical capability. Adn the need for a breakthrough is quire urgent. It's a disturbing truth that the major technologies in our life today are late 19th and early 20th century innovations - like cars, planes, telephones, TV Even the internet was 'invented' back in the 80s. The next quantum leap is overdue. How about solar paint that turns our windows and walls into hi-tech sun traps to generate electricity? Or technology that sucks out PM2.5 from the air and wraps it into neat little construction pellets? Indian cities reeling from air pollution could do, in particular, with the latter.

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