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  Integrating climate change in hydropower development in East Africa

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2016

  The main objective of this study was to quantify the impacts of climate change on hydropower resources in East Africa thereby providing a basis for integrating the impact of Climate Change in hydropower development in the region.
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  Innovative risk finance solutions – Insights for geothermal power development in Kenya and Ethiopia

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2017

  Geothermal development is on the rise in many regions of the world. However, the high costs of field development, coupled with the high risks associated with resource exploration and drilling, still pose a significant barrier to private sector financing.Insurance can mitigate the risks to investors and increase flows of private finance to the industry.
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  Sustainable energy solutions in East Africa: status, experiences and policy recommendations from NGOs in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda

  2009

  This report focuses on the necessary framework for a sustainable energy project to succeed in addressing energy security and poverty reduction whilst being sustainable and environmentaly friendly. As such, the report summarises the experiences of local NGOs in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania which serve as a guideline for Norwegian support.
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  Emissions trading, carbon financing and indigenous peoples

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2008

  Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate information about carbon financing and carbon market processes at the outset – to help them make informed decisions and choices about activities that work for them.
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  The climate of poverty: facts, fears and hope

  Christian Aid, 2006

  Tens of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa could die of disease directly attributable to climate change, is the main finding of this NGO report.
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  Does AIDS threaten the right to land?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  There are between 500 and 700 AIDS-related deaths in Kenya every day. Beyond this tragedy, the HIV/AIDS epidemic creates problems in many aspects of social and economic life. One such problem is decreased security of land tenure. There are dramatic accounts of AIDS widows and orphans being chased from their land and many more that tell of an increased sense of tenure insecurity due to HIV/AIDS.
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  Could fuel substitution hurt the poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Over two billion people in developing countries rely on biomass fuels to meet their household energy needs. It is increasingly recognised that cooking with firewood, charcoal, crop residues and animal dung is bad for the health and the environment.
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  Common ground: women's access to natural resources and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003

  This brief report links poverty eradication, gender equality and environmental sustainability. It argues that linking the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on these issues can expand women's access to natural resources.
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  A burning issue: promoting sustainable pro-poor access to affordable energy

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In urban areas of developing countries the poor pay more per unit of energy consumed and are most vulnerable to price hikes. Are they forever doomed to use expensive, inefficient and unsafe fuels for cooking, heating, power and light? What can be done to increase access to higher grade and more sustainable forms of energy?
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  Petroleum industry since liberalization

  Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya, 2000

  This article discusses the incomplete nature of liberalisation of the petroleum industry in Kenya.Concludes that: The shortages in petroleum products that was common before the period of price decontrols are now non existentThe liberalization process has however been incomplete leaving the National Oil Corporation Of Kenya (NOCK) as both national regulator and active participant in