He suggested that precautionary steps be considered during construction, such as low cost lightning rod technologies.

Yet practical solutions are at hand, because simple and low cost technologies can address specific problems. Low farm yields can be addressed through improved seed varieties specially adapted for African conditions, combined with technologies for replenishing soil and managing water.

The use of labour intensive technologies in construction and infrastructure development can provide job opportunities for low skilled urban workers and may be used wherever these technologies are cost effective and technically feasible.

So you are not talking about low cost, you are talking about ultra low cost.

These include being able to access strategic assets, new technologies and markets, deploying low cost engineers in innovative ways, mastering all aspects of manufacturing processes, and others.

It's not about low cost.

It's about ultra low cost.

UNICEF will build new partnerships, especially in the private sector, to identify and develop low cost, reliable, and user friendly technologies in water supply, water quality and sanitation.

Third, we have already used up many of the low cost options that were once available. Low cost oil is rapidly being depleted.

Across sub Saharan Africa, engineers from India armed with appropriate technologies honed in their home market are also making their mark. India supplies Africa with computer education courses, the most reliable water pumps, low cost rice milling equipment, and dozens of other technologies.

Indeed, there is excellent potential for low cost solar power, zero emitting coal based technologies, and safe and reliable nuclear power. Solar radiation equals roughly 10,000 times our current energy use.

Among the low cost waste water treatment options available are anaerobic treatment systems, which have the advantage of simple construction and low cost maintenance.

Why not make myself a low cost napkin?

R.A. Mashelkar Breakthrough designs for ultra low cost products

We're also looking at low cost water treatment systems.

It has to be investing in low carbon technologies and infrastructures.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization initiated a major interregional South South project with India to facilitate the transfer of technologies and expertise in low cost housing to African, Asian and Latin American countries.

Low cost providers around the world can do it cheaper.

Which was a very good thing, providing low cost clothing.

Thulasiraj Ravilla How low cost eye care can be world class

(c) Transfer of technology for low cost housing and basic infrastructure

Existing technologies provide lower risk, lower cost opportunities for new businesses to gain footholds by applying such technologies to address specific local needs.

the low cost housing family houses or apartment houses development policy and

The interregional programme on capacity building for transfer of energy efficient and eco friendly technologies and promotion of local investments in the area of materials based on local resources for low cost housing in Africa, Asia and Latin America

(v) Promoting access to low cost and effective drugs and related pharmaceutical products

Low cost family restaurant chain, for those of you who don't know it.

Dean Ornish talks about simple, low tech and low cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself.

Now while this may be the low economic cost solution, this is certainly not the low environmental or human health and safety solution.

You have to have low cost, but you also have to have a function.

So, the beauty of mesh networks you can have these very low cost devices.

Which is why, in part, donor agencies provide condoms at low or no cost.

China and India represent more than mushrooming factories and low cost semi skilled labor.

(g) To undertake or promote research and development of, and to promote the availability and use of new technologies, including information and communications technologies, mobility aids, devices and assistive technologies, suitable for persons with disabilities, giving priority to technologies at an affordable cost

The problem is that we can create these large reserves only in places where there are no people, where there is no social conflict, where the political cost is really low and the economic cost is also low.

And then, the most important thing is, it gives us large math for low cost.

Emphasis should be on affordabililty and cost reduction, on innovative business and financing models and on cost effective, consumer friendly, cost recovery models, recognizing that different renewable technologies offer different opportunities and face different constrains.

It is a low cost platform with a moderately long operational life capable of future evolution.

With the result we have very high productivity, very high quality at very, very low cost.

Well known, low cost, and low tech interventions do not reach those most in need for example immunization against tetanus, exclusive breastfeeding, simple care for low weight babies, and antibiotics for infection. Such interventions are extremely cost effective, and packaging these interventions together and linking them with other health programs reduces costs further.

However, if countries invest wisely in the transition to a low carbon economy, they will stimulate innovation and generate decades of sustainable growth. Thus, it is important that climate finance be used to foster public and private investment in low carbon infrastructure and technologies, particularly to lower the cost of capital, which is crucial to scale up projects and encourage renewable energy adoption.

Conversion Sound has developed a high quality, ultra low cost digital hearing aid for the developing world.

We created competition for ourselves, and then we made eye care affordable by making low cost consumables.

Offshoring means relocating non core activities to low cost areas while maintaining the activity within the organization.

Meanwhile, China the world s leading investor in renewable energy projects is undergoing a transformation from the world s low cost factory to a global leader in green innovation and a major exporter of clean technologies. In the contest for this global market, Europe cannot compete on price alone.

(h) To promote the design, development, production and distribution of accessible information and communications technologies and systems at an early stage, so that these technologies and systems become accessible at minimum cost.