This will help to further reduce costs, lengthen the operating life of equipment and streamline logistics in technologies that will help to achieve the 2020 targets.

Our international business strategy reflects the thinking and priorities of DFAIT and 21 other departments and agencies, including EDC, which together form the virtual export promotion agency called Team Canada Inc. Recognizing the importance of trade and investment to Canada's prosperity, the government has set the four goals for this strategy: make Canada the world's best trading nation by enhancing our international trade competitiveness; make Canada the location of choice for investing in North America; create jobs by encouragin ...[+++]g innovation and R and D by SMEs and multinational enterprises; and exercise leadership in global trade liberalization.

strongly supports the REGI Committee's negotiating team in the trialogue process; in particular, recalls some key positions shared with the EP such as "transition regions", the balance between Europe 2020 Strategy and the Treaty objectives, the effective involvement of local and regional authorities (LRAs), as well as the rejection of macroeconomic conditionality and performance reserve; it therefore hopes they could be kept in the final package;

85. Underlines the importance of smart meters as a means of helping consumers to monitor more effectively their peak-rate consumption and improve energy efficiency within their homes; believes that smart metering and energy projects in general call for awareness- raising campaigns and educational programmes on energy efficiency in order to explain their benefits to the public; stresses that informing society about the benefits of smart metering is crucial to its success; points out that Parliament has called as a policy goal for 50% of homes in Europe to be fitted with smart meters by 2015 and an obligation on the part of the Member States to guarantee that at least 80% of consumers are equipped ...[+++] with intelligent metering systems by 2020 ;

87. Underlines the importance of smart meters as a means of helping consumers to monitor more effectively their peak-rate consumption and improve energy efficiency within their homes; believes that smart metering and energy projects in general call for awareness- raising campaigns and educational programmes on energy efficiency in order to explain their benefits to the public; stresses that informing society about the benefits of smart metering is crucial to its success; points out that Parliament has called as a policy goal for 50% of homes in Europe to be fitted with smart meters by 2015 and an obligation on the part of the Member States to guarantee that at least 80% of consumers are equipped ...[+++] with intelligent metering systems by 2020;

The Japanese authorities have announced initial commercialisation targets of 50,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2010, and 5 million by 2020, and installed stationary fuel cell capacity of 2,100 MW by 2010, with 10,000 MW by 2020.