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Every year a number of catastrophic events such as earthquake, flood and hurricanes take place around the world from which just a few are happening in major centers of trade and industry. However, those rare events in important areas help us to evaluate the vulnerability of our global supply chains to disruptions and our capabilities to cope with them. The Japan earthquake is one of those rare events.more
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Can hypothecated carbon tax stimulate the energy transition?more
Next Generation Infrastructures' researchers Dijkema, Chappin and De Vries wrote a column in FD, in which they advocate for a stable energy-, industry-; and innovation policy that makes a strong competitive wind-energy sector possible for the Netherlands.more
Exclusive interview in Chinese Newspaper with Prof. Saskia Sassen, the initiator of the concept Global City, and keynote speaker at the third annual conference on Next Generation Infrastructures held in Shenzhen, China, 11-13 November 2010.more
Shenzhen is able to create a world class knowledge-based area through smart and integrated management on infrastructures, to meet the constantly changing and realize the dream of green and high efficient citymore
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The European Union likes to present its greenhouse-gas Emission Trading System as a pioneering success story. But our research at Delft University tells a different story; that the system is simply not producing the timely, significant reduction of CO2 emissions originally envisaged. A tax on CO2 emissions would be a far more beneficial alternative, not only for companies, but for consumers and for our climate as well.more
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