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India a country with most business potential: Japanese printing giant Fujifilm
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India a country with most business potential: Japanese printing giant Fujifilm

NEW DELHI: The $20 billion Japanese printing and medical devices company Fujifilm finds India as one of the most high-potential markets for business globally while it also looks at outsourcing R&D and tech centre work to support its global needs, a top company official has said.“It’s a well known fact that India is a very populous country, where the GDP has also been showing steady growth.From that perspective, I do believe that India is probably the country with the most potential in the world,” Naoki Hama, Global president & CEO of Fujifilm’s Business Innovation Corp, told TOI here.The Business Innovation division provides multifunction printers to businesses of various sizes — from large to small-and-medium to help address business challenges related to documents and communicat...
‘Net Zero’ Fails the Cost-Benefit Test
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‘Net Zero’ Fails the Cost-Benefit Test

Nov. 29, 2023 12:52 pm ETWorld leaders are gathering in Dubai for another climate conference, which will no doubt yield heady promises along the lines of the 2015 Paris climate agreement to keep the global temperature’s rise “well below” 2 degrees Celsius and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees. But they’d be wiser not to. New research shows how extravagant climate promises are far more wasteful than useful.A new special issue of the journal Climate Change Economics contains two ground-breaking economic analyses of policies to hold global temperatures to 1.5 degrees and its practical political interpretation, mandates to reach net zero, usually by 2050. Though more than 130 countries, including most of the globe’s big emitters, have passed or are considering laws mandating net-zero ...