Low carbon energy
Meeting the challenge of providing access to sustainable energy sources
- The role of ICT in developing a low carbon economy
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has increased productivity and supported economic growth across the globe. But what impact does it have on climate change? Experts quantify the direct emissions from ICT products and services and explore ways that ICT could enable reductions of emissions in other sectors of the economy.
Latest Documents
- Energy and development
- G. Carbonnier; J. Grinevald 2011
- The pursuit of a development path primarily driven by abundant, cheap fossil fuels is coming up against diminishing reserves, rising prices and global warming. Managing the growing tensions resulting from this situation requires incre...
- Pioneering renewable energy options: Thailand takes up the challenge
- L. Weischer / Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
- Thailand’s support policies for renewable energy (RE) in the power sector have allowed individual small projects to add up to something substantial, attracting more investment and leading to faster growth in the sector than in mo...
- Evaluation of quantitative methodologies for assessing greenhouse gas reductions from cookstove projects
- C. Lee; C. Chandler; M. Lazarus; F. X. Johnson / Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013
- With an estimated 2.6 billion people relying on traditional biomass for cooking and heating, improved efficiency of cookstoves could provide greenhouse gas emission reductions in excess of one billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent...
- The benefits of gender balance in climate change mitigation investments and sustainable energy initiatives
- G. Karlsson / ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2012
- Cleaner fuels, improved efficiency and adoption of renewable energy technologies offer important possibilities for low carbon economic development and reductions in overall greenhouse gas emissions. This paper highlights that these po...
- Asian development outlook 2013: Asia’s energy challenge
- Asian Development Bank, 2013
- The Asian Development Outlook 2013 provides a comprehensive economic analysis at both regional- and country-levels. It begins by outlining the economic status of the region before examining the goals, challenges and strategies of stak...
- Study on perspectives of energy production systems and climate change risks in Nigeria
- S. C. Nwanya / InTech, 2013
- The study presents the climate change risks associated with energy production and utilisation, as well as the possibility of achieving low carbon development in Nigeria. It describes climate change as a global phenomenon, but notes th...
- Energy poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation: is there a trade off?
- S. Chakravarty / Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, 2013
- Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue. Several initiatives and policies have been proposed to deal with poor access to modern sources of energy in developing countries. However, this paper argues that an i...
- Report on the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on electricity generation in Malawi
- C. S. Kaunda; F. Mtalo / International Energy and Environment Foundation, 2013
- This paper explores the impacts of environmental degradation and climate change on electricity generation in Malawi. Hydropower provides almost all of the country's electricity; a reliance on freshwater supply makes it a highly vulner...
- Regional cooperation for energy access and energy security in south and south-west Asia: prospects and challenges
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2013
- This paper, prepared by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), highlights the major energy challenges that countries in the south and south west Asia sub-region are facing. It explores the linkages between energy and sustainable d...
- Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up low-carbon energy
- C. Polycarp; L. Brown; X. Fu-Bertaux 2013
- It is estimated that developing countries need US$ 531 billion per year additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies, between now and 2050, in order to limit global temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industria...
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