Nuclear Petrochemicals IT Engineering Risk Management Business Subscriber Login Login to EMIS or to pick up your paid subscription. The World Bank has set up a collaborative for energy technology research that would benefit developing countries. Projects include clean coal technologies to reduce greenhouse emissions, power plant designs for more efficient plants, and renewable energy for cleaner power generation alternatives.
Energy security is important to a resource poor country like Japan.
To compensate for this decrease, the Japanese government increased funding for near-term projects, which could be made commercially viable in a few years.