Living in a developing nation, and paying taxes in Canada, I'm pretty okay with tax dollars being spent to help develop ''green" technologies.
One of the ones I know of here in Cambodia is a program to certify solar-panel constructors and installers.
About ten years ago a few unscrupulous companies built crap solar panels and sold them really cheaply, while promising the moon. They obviously failed and the companies (Cambodian companies) took the money and ran, leaving 'solar power' with a really bad taste in most people's mouths here.
Enter the Western-funded NGO. They begin a program of certifying solar-panel installation and maintenance companies in an effort to turn around people's perception of the technology and it's been working really well. This is particularly advantageous here where so many people (I think it's like 35% or something) live off the grid and get their power-when they have it-from diesel generators.
There are a lot of problems with NGO's and I really dislike Saudi Arabia and China being able to dip into this fund, quite frankly Saudi can go screw itself sideways, I hope that whole country gets gonorrhea, but on the whole I'm very pro developed-nations contributing to developing-nations environmental efforts.
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