Opinion by our Director, Jos Dings A new year has come, full of new challenges and opportunities. Fortunately, for now, Europe seems to have averted the worst emergencies. This should allow for some less ad-hoc and more strategic thinking about recipes to get ourselves out of the woods.
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One key element is really that it is wise to spend less financial resources on (mostly imported) natural and energy resources. Let’s face four fundamental facts: our gas will never be as cheap as in the USA, our coal will never be as cheap as in China, our labour will never be as cheap as in India, and we do not have many fossil fuel and natural resources ourselves. All this means that remaining ahead of the innovation curve and dramatically improving our resource and energy efficiency are going to be absolutely crucial for the future of our ailing economy.
Here are 10 questions for us to ask now and monitor throughout the year:
Rest assured we will not just watch the answers to these questions emerge; we will, as usual, do our utmost to help shape them. Doing nothing does not strike me as a sensible response in a crisis. Change and action, not stagnation – that’s my new year’s resolution.
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