Biomass provides 10% of the global energy supply and electricity generation from biomass and waste is expected to increase by a factor of 4 by 2030. Currently efficiency of biomass power generation is poor and IEA targets improvements from 18% to 25% by 2030 [1]. Such increases in efficiency will require significant new technology and accurate real-time measurement of the flow of these highly v...

We build an economico-epidemiological Solow-Swan model. Mortality and morbidity effects on effective labor are taken into account. A Ben-Porath-like mechanism affects the dynamics of the saving rate and reduces labor productivity. Based on optimal projections of the demographic and economic South-African series on the period 2000-2050, we identify a delayed effect of HIV-AIDS on economic growth...

Regarding the conflicting demands of demographic development, mobility desires and needs as well as an increasingly complex transport and traffic environment, the MOBIL 2030 research project investigates what impacts these changes will show on the mobility culture in general and on the individual mobility behavior of the “baby boomers” (who will be aged 65 and older in 2030) in particular. Base...

INTRODUCTION In 2014, city leaders from around the world endorsed the Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities, pledging to achieve the 2020 and 2030 HIV targets championed by UNAIDS. The City of Johannesburg - one of South Africa's metropolitan municipalities and also a health district - has over 600,000 people living with HIV (PLHIV), more than any other city worldwide. We estimate what it woul...

BACKGROUND The population infected with HIV is getting older and these people will increasingly develop age-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). We aimed to quantify the scale of the change and the implications for HIV care in the Netherlands in the future. METHODS We constructed an individual-based model of the ageing HIV-infected population, which followed patients on HIV treatment as ...

If current laws and practices continue, health expenditures in the United States will reach $1.7 trillion by the year 2000, an amount equal to 18.1 percent of the Nation's gross domestic product (GDP). By the year 2030, as America's baby boomers enter their seventies and eighties, health spending will top $16 trillion, or 32 percent of GDP. The projections presented here incorporate the assumpt...

by Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi Executive Summary The plan below demonstrates how the world can feasibly produce 100% of its energy by 2030 from sources with near-zero lifetime (including construction, operation and decommissioning) emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Only technologies available and scalable today are included. These include wind, water, and solar (WWS) f...

This volume of Higher Education to 2030 discusses trends and prospects regarding changes in the population of students, academic teaching staff and graduates in higher education in OECD countries, from both a quantitative and qualitative standpoint. It examines in particular the link between these developments, demographic changes and higher education policy. The book is thus concerned no less ...