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(Created page with "==Description:== The touchstone of every elaboration on Europe's future is globalisation and how to respond. Obviously globalisation and all it comes along with it matters. And by and large Europeans are not adapting very well. Yet the biggest problem facing their continent (and their welfare states) is not the result of a new twist in the new emerging playing field. It would exist even if Europeans had the world stage to themselves. The problem is demography, the fact t...")
 
 
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==Description:==
==Description:==
The touchstone of every elaboration on Europe's future is globalisation and how to respond. Obviously globalisation and all it comes along with it matters. And by and large Europeans are not adapting very well. Yet the biggest problem facing their continent (and their welfare states) is not the result of a new twist in the new emerging playing field. It would exist even if Europeans had the world stage to themselves. The problem is demography, the fact that the old continent is growing even older. (Source: [http://economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_ID=5056302&subjectid=348927] Economist)
consumer behaviour for the energy is quite an issue, as non of them has the awareness of how things are working and how we can improve the whole energy consumption habits, and how they can save energy during their normal habits and save money so it's a win-win situation for both the consumers and the suppliers. small flyers or social media influencers can really change the whole equation.  
 
According to new research conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) the composition of Europe’s demographic will undergo dramatic changes. By 2025, one in five Europeans will be more than 65 years old, up from 16 percent in 2002. This will result in a big gap between an increasing number of retired citizens and a decreasing number of working citizen. Retired citizen tend to consume their savings as working citizen create most of those savings. Therefore, the absolute level of savings will plunge across most of Europe. That is a threat to Europe’s high living standards and economic well-being.  
 
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==Enablers:==
==Enablers:==
*Advance medicine and preventions
*prices of energy are getting higher
*High living standards and conditions
*less energy will be needed from suppliers.
*More health awareness
*the saved money can be used on other stuff.
*Declining birth of new babies
*win-win situation.


==Inhibitors:==
==Inhibitors:==
*Productivity growth in European countries
*there are no negative points from increasing the awareness of customers.
*European Labour Market Reform, more flexible labour policies and increase the incentives to work
 
*Support and facilitate very talented people not only the people whom we think need help.
*Attract talented people from around the world.
*Create a climate of entrepreneurship.
*Attenuate immigration policies for talented people whom like to stay in Europe.
*Create world-class educational institutions.
*Getting more woman into the workforce


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==Paradigms:==
==Paradigms:==
The aging of European populations will threaten living standards and prosperity. A new sort of welfare state needs to arise. However, the European members are still scattered on which fundamentals they have to build this new welfare state. A model based on individualism and collective facilities only accessible for the more prosperous civilians like the American model or a more Northern Europe (Scandinavian) approach, a model based on solidarity and unity with collective facilities for all its civilian.  
thinking of the whole energy system in future is very important but, it doesn't have to come from just changing energy sources from dirty to clean (renewable) that is one part of the story but what if we could change the usage behaviour of customer in heating, cooling, lighting, use of solar energy, recycling, reduce waste etc... that will save us a lot of energy saving in the future.  


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==Experts:==
==Experts:==
*United Nations
*Harvard Business Review
*EU
* world of energy association IEA
*Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
*Centraal burau voor de statistieken (CBS) for Dutch figures and trends


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==Timing:==
==Timing:==
*2000: Trend identified
*2022: Awareness Campaign Starts
*2005: Several parties and governmental institutions have done research on this matter and they all show that action is needed.
*2024: some laws are there will award this behaviour
*2010: Period in which the steepest increase of people turning 65 years or older is expected
*2026: people are having the consumption habits of saving in their brain engraved
*2020 - 2025: One in five Europeans will be more than 65 years old.
*2030 - 2025: people save a lot of energy
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==Web Resources:==
==Web Resources:==
*[http://www.antiaging-europe.com/ Anti-aging Europe]
https://hbr.org/2019/07/the-elusive-green-consumer
*[http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_05/b3918011.htm BusinessWeek - Global Aging]
 
*[http://mckinseyquarterly.com/article_abstract.aspx?ar=1613&L2=7&L3=10  McKinsey The economic impact of an  aging Europe ]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272819070_Raising_awareness_on_energy_consumption_of_household_devices
*[http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/demographics/index.asp  MGI The Coming Demographic Deficit: How Aging Populations Will Reduce Global Savings]
*[http://www.oecd.org/searchResult/0,2665,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html OECD]
*[http://economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6800723 The Economist - The economic power of women]
*[http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6802551 The Economist -  Women and the world economy]
*The New York Times - An Aging Europe May Find Itself on the Sidelines [http://www.forourgrandchildren.org/pressroom/articles/2003-06-29-An_Aging_Europe.pdf  1] [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D15FC3C5E0C7A8EDDAF0894DB404482 2]

Latest revision as of 17:01, 7 December 2021

Description:

consumer behaviour for the energy is quite an issue, as non of them has the awareness of how things are working and how we can improve the whole energy consumption habits, and how they can save energy during their normal habits and save money so it's a win-win situation for both the consumers and the suppliers. small flyers or social media influencers can really change the whole equation.

Enablers:

  • prices of energy are getting higher
  • less energy will be needed from suppliers.
  • the saved money can be used on other stuff.
  • win-win situation.

Inhibitors:

  • there are no negative points from increasing the awareness of customers.



Paradigms:

thinking of the whole energy system in future is very important but, it doesn't have to come from just changing energy sources from dirty to clean (renewable) that is one part of the story but what if we could change the usage behaviour of customer in heating, cooling, lighting, use of solar energy, recycling, reduce waste etc... that will save us a lot of energy saving in the future.


Experts:

  • Harvard Business Review
  • world of energy association IEA


Timing:

  • 2022: Awareness Campaign Starts
  • 2024: some laws are there will award this behaviour
  • 2026: people are having the consumption habits of saving in their brain engraved
  • 2030 - 2025: people save a lot of energy


Web Resources:

https://hbr.org/2019/07/the-elusive-green-consumer

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272819070_Raising_awareness_on_energy_consumption_of_household_devices

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