Themes: Low carbon energy

Themes: Low carbon energy

Feature
21st June 2012
Rio+20 - Where's the real energy? Claudia Martinez of CDKN reports from Rio de Janeiro, where she wishes that the energy bubbling in the side events of the Rio+20 Summit would infect the official negotiations.
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Project : Pro-poor, low carbon development: Improving low carbon energy access and development benefits in Least Developed Countries

Access to modern energy remains a major challenge for many developing countries. Modern energy services are fundamental for human development and for those living in extreme poverty- a lack of access to modern energy services has adverse impacts including increasing inequality. Read about a project in Kenya which seeks to facilitate the use of energy efficient technologies in Least Developed Countries.

Resource
17th June 2012
Economics of Climate Change in Rwanda Economics of Climate Change in Rwanda
Resource
11th June 2012
Low-Carbon Africa: Rwanda Low-Carbon Africa: Rwanda
Resource
8th June 2012
INSIDE STORY: Making renewable energy affordable - the South African Renewables Initiative In this Inside Story, Murray Ward explores some of the challenges faced by the South Africa Renewables Initiative (SARi), in particular relating to financing the incremental costs of renewables in a context of political and social opposition to rising energy prices.
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Completed
Project : Climate-proofing energy systems and policies in Cameroon and Togo

The TIPEE tool was developed by HELIO International to help policy makers check how well national energy policies are contributing to ecodevelopment (sustainable and equitable development).

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Completed
Project : Trilateral cooperation on low carbon zones in Africa

This project scoped the potential for trilateral cooperation between China, Africa and the EU on the development of Low Carbon Zones (LCZs) in African countries, focussing on Ethiopia and Zambia.

Event
28th May 2012
Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS) collaboration in action workshop CDKN and DFID co-hosted the LEDS Collaboration in Action workshop, over 20th-23rd May in the UK, on behalf of the LEDS Global Partnership (LEDS GP). The workshop brought together more than 125 representatives from developed and developing countries, implementing organizations and multilateral institutions.
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8th May 2012
INSIDE STORY: Achieving development goals with renewable energy – the case of Tanzania Tanzania's Small Power Projects programme is supporting the country's economic growth and human development, while limiting its greenhouse gas emissions, as Lutz Weischer explains in this latest 'Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development' from CDKN.
Feature
13th April 2012
Getting to grips with the water-energy-food 'nexus' The ‘nexus’ has become a popular buzz word to describe the complex linkages among water, energy and food security. CDKN's Mairi Dupar and Naomi Oates explore why nexus thinking has become popular, and how it might relate to climate compatible development.
Resource
1st April 2012
Energy aid and climate compatible development strategies Jos Bruggink is professor emeritus of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam and former head of the unit Policy Studies of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN). In this blog, based on his recent research, he challenges the ‘triple-win’ approach to merging adaptation, mitigation and development in climate compatible development approaches.
News
23rd March 2012
Industrial energy efficiency - scoring a hat trick Nicola Cantore from ODI gives us a sneak preview of the upcoming UNIDO report to be released on Tuesday: 'Industrial energy efficiency for sustainable wealth creation.'