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Investing in energy efficiency in Europe's buildings

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Tackling building retrofits is crucial if the EU is to meet its ambitious 2020 energy and climate goals: improving energy efficiency by 20% and achieving a 20% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels. Buildings now account for 40% of total primary energy consumption and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions in the region.

Water for all?

Water for all? is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by Oracle, which looks at the relative preparedness of water utilities across ten major markets—the US, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Spain, Brazil, Russia, India and China—to meet future water supply challenges to 2030. It highlights potential risks and shortfalls, while also outlining the broad nature of the responses by utilities to these risks and shortfalls.

The 2011 Infrascope: Public-private partnerships in Asia-Pacific

This document is a summary and analysis of a benchmarking index and learning tool that assesses the capacity of countries in the Asia-Pacific region to carry out sustainable public-private infrastructure partnerships, as of June 2011. The methodology is based on a similar study of Latin America and the Caribbean published in 2009 and 2010. The index was built by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Asia competition barometer: Precision engineering

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Supported by Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB), the Economist Intelligence Unit has developed the Asia Competition Barometer with the aim of understanding the changing market dynamics in key sectors and assessing the intensity of competition in them. Drawing upon company-level data on profitability and other indicators, the Barometer quantifies the changing dynamics of competitiveness in Asia for select industries between 2004 and 2009.

Asia competition barometer: Transport and logistics

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Supported by Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB), the Economist Intelligence Unit has developed the Asia Competition Barometer with the aim of understanding the changing market dynamics in key sectors and assessing the intensity of competition in them. Drawing upon company-level data on profitability and other indicators, the Barometer quantifies the changing dynamics of competitiveness in Asia for select industries between 2004 and 2009.

Building in change

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Making up for lost time

Making up for lost time: public transport in Brazil’s metropolitan areas is an Economist Intelligence Unit research report, sponsored by Accenture do Brasil. It explores the challenges and opportunities created by urban congestion in Brazil.

US and Canada green city index

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The US and Canada Green City Index, a research project conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Siemens, seeks to measure and assess the environmental performance of 27 major US and Canadian cities across a range of criteria. This report presents the key findings and highlights from the Index, and is intended to provide stakeholders with a unique tool to help cities in the region learn from each other in order to better address the common environmental challenges they face.

Liveanomics

There is no doubt that the lives of cities and of the businesses located in them are inextricably intertwined. But how closely linked are cities' economic growth and their liveability?

A survey of urban professionals conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that the idea of liveability has a number of different components. Jobs and cost of living, public transport and roads, safety and security and culture and nightlife all rank highly among our respondents' list of factors contributing to a city's attractiveness as a place to live and work.

Keeping traffic flowing

In December 2009 and January 2010, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a benchmarking study of ten countries to determine their current and likely future transport efficiency. For purposes of this study, transport efficiency is defined as operating a transport system to maximum advantage—that is, with the lowest possible costs in time, money, accidents and environmental impact.

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