Examples of using Rets in English and their translations into Chinese
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Programming
RETs have been in existence for decades.
Benefits of deploying RETs for rural development.
These processes can be instrumental in demystifying RETs.
Integrating deployment of RETs in rural poverty reduction strategies.
Domestic financial incentives to promote RETs in China 13.
In addition, RETs could address local and global environmental concerns.
Box 2. Domestic financial incentives to promote RETs in China.
Through such mechanisms, demand for RETs could be maintained once initial support(such as subsidies) was no longer available.
Box 3 presents the case of an integrated approach to promoting RETs in rural Cuba.
RETs use energy sources that do not deplete the Earth' s natural resources and do not create added waste products(table 2).
This is because potential adopters of RETs perceive it to be too risky.
Governments had an importantrole in attracting private sector investment in RETs.
This cooperation includes areas of common interest, such as the interface between RETs, food security and sustainable agriculture.
Experts had also stressed that deployment of RETs must be tailored to the needs and priorities of local communities, and must involve full stakeholder participation.
Governments could also provide tax breaks andexemptions for entrepreneurs investing in RETs in rural areas.
The gap in informationregarding the risk levels associated with investing in RETs and poor communities was something that governments could help fill.
In most cases, nonetheless,public intervention is required to increase the attractiveness of investments in RETs in rural areas.
Experts agreed that the use of renewable energy technologies(RETs) provides an exemplary win- win outcome for rural income generation and environmental sustainability.
Feed-in tariffs are an important domestic policy mechanism too,and they have been effective in promoting RETs, mainly in developed countries.
For electricity expansion in rural areas, decentralized RETs can be a particularly appropriate and often more economic alternative to grid-based electrification.
In particular, mechanisms such as subsidy schemes, feed-in tariffs andthe reduction of import duties can help to bring RETs to the market.
The use of RETs in rural poverty eradication strategies provides an exemplary win- win result for economic growth, job and income generation, and environmental sustainability.
The report, noting the complexity of technological change in different contexts,calls for targeted international support to foster RETs related learning.
Often, access to microcreditis a fundamental factor in the successful dissemination of RETs in rural areas, as the Grameen Bank and BRAC examples in Bangladesh illustrate.
It has been argued that, for the deployment of RETs to be mainstreamed into power production, environmental externality costs need to be internalized for RETs to be competitive.
Given the priorities of the local population and the aims of the Cuban Government,the expansion of RETs through modern, small-scale off-grid systems was the most appropriate and efficient way to do this.
Participants also observed that the promotion of biofuels and other RETs must take into account the balance between economic and environmental sustainability, and also, more importantly, food security.
In order to have the capacity to adapt, install, maintain,repair and improve RETs in local areas, investment in technology transfer must be complemented by investment in extension services.
This is the case of subsidies for fossil fuels, which make the deployment of RETs less advantageous, or subsidies for certain RETs, which distort competition amongst RET options.
Financing is also needed for research and development to further improve andadapt the RETs, and also to support the development of associated microenterprises, which are now possible because of the new access to energy.