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A Way Forward a W a Y for Wa Rd Rd • January 2013 JAN 2013 A Way Forward A W A Y FOR wa RD • JANUARY 2013 JANUARY DAVOS 2013: HOW EUROPE CAN BE SAVED THE MIDDLE CLAss MATRIARCHY SHANGHAI SWOON WHAT’S BUGGING the SWIss? Connect emission-free power to the grid? Electric cars: 15 minutes charging, 200 km driving? ABB is helping construct the world’s most remote offshore wind farm. Having to wait eight hours to fully recharge an electric car is the main reason for not Using our eco-friendly transmission technology, this 400-megawatt buying one. But things have changed: With ABB’s direct current (DC) chargers charging plant is expected to avoid 1.5 million tons of CO2 emissions per year time has been slashed to as little as 15 to 30 minutes. No wonder the Estonian govern- and improve the reliability of the power grid. It’s just one of the ways ment is relying on ABB to build Europe’s largest electric vehicle fast-charging network. that we, as the biggest supplier of electrical products and services for By the end of the year the Estonian main roads will have fast chargers every 50 km. Once the wind industry, can use renewable power sources to help combat accomplished the goal to significantly reduce CO2 emissions by 2020 moves a lot closer. climate change. www.abb.com/betterworld Naturally. www.abb.com/betterworld Certainly. Ad_ABB_2Sujets_Reuters_on_sale_Jan28_431-8x276-225_e.indd 1 11.12.12 15:46 Connect emission-free power to the grid? Electric cars: 15 minutes charging, 200 km driving? ABB is helping construct the world’s most remote offshore wind farm. Having to wait eight hours to fully recharge an electric car is the main reason for not Using our eco-friendly transmission technology, this 400-megawatt buying one. But things have changed: With ABB’s direct current (DC) chargers charging plant is expected to avoid 1.5 million tons of CO2 emissions per year time has been slashed to as little as 15 to 30 minutes. No wonder the Estonian govern- and improve the reliability of the power grid. It’s just one of the ways ment is relying on ABB to build Europe’s largest electric vehicle fast-charging network. that we, as the biggest supplier of electrical products and services for By the end of the year the Estonian main roads will have fast chargers every 50 km. Once the wind industry, can use renewable power sources to help combat accomplished the goal to significantly reduce CO2 emissions by 2020 moves a lot closer. climate change. www.abb.com/betterworld Naturally. www.abb.com/betterworld Certainly. Ad_ABB_2Sujets_Reuters_on_sale_Jan28_431-8x276-225_e.indd 1 11.12.12 15:46 E d itor’s L et ter their union to constituents. The solution, he argues, is to offer the continent’s people clearer democratic choices that can lay the foundation for an economic resurgence. The leadership required is where German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes in. China remains an economic head-scratcher: How is it that the country whose economy has more than quadrupled in a decade has produced such poor re- turns for investors? And does the recent market downturn there signal a broader slowdown that will EACH YEAR, the World Economic Forum terrifies us be felt around the world? Probably not, writes Break- with a litany of global risks, while challenging us to make ingViews columnist Peter Thal Larsen. In explaining better use of facts and reason to address our problems. why, he provides useful insight to investors and offers Tackling that challenge is what Reuters and its parent, at least a measure of optimism. Thomson Reuters, do every day: harnessing information Veteran science writer Sharon Begley calls our atten- of all kinds from all places to help people make more in- tion to a serious, nonfinancial risk: a global outbreak telligent decisions. And that’s what we attempt to do in of flu or some other highly contagious disease. As she this issue of Reuters Magazine, “The Way Forward.” shows, governments and business leaders are working Certainly, the mood at Davos and similar gather- to ascertain the potential economic cost of a pandemic, ings has been far from upbeat in recent years. Since the if only to know what it’s worth to contain one. Trust me, world financial system fell off a ledge (not to be con- you’ll make sure to get your flu shot after reading this. fused with a fiscal cliff) in 2008, the economic recov- Also check out our in-depth look at Colleen LaRose, ery has been patchy and slow, the European Union has the American woman who called herself Jihad Jane. tottered, joblessness—especially among young peo- Her fascinating case not only provides a window into ple—has stayed painfully high, and natural disasters, the minds of would-be terrorists but raises the ques- wars, and atrocities have taken countless lives. tion of how far the U.S. justice system should go in pun- We remain ever-hopeful though that this will be the ishing plotters who never come close to succeeding. year Europe mends, legislatures perfect the art of gov- We hope you enjoy the issue, and take with you a bit erning, opportunity embraces women as well as men, of hope and some good ideas in the process. 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