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29 March 2019
Events News

Clean Energy in Africa: Exploring the Energy-Development Nexus

On 25 March, experts gathered to discuss the opportunities and challenges in Africa surrounding the energy-development nexus. Energy choices made today will have long-term consequences on Africa's future economic development and environmental standing, and making the best choices will require more cooperation and cohesion than currently present.
25 August 2020

Ephemeral Islands: Access to energy in the char regions of Assam

Namrata Ginoya, Amala Devi

It is the monthly immunization day, and Salma Khatun is waiting for the boat to come take her across the Brahmaputra to Ramhari Char.

31 July 2018
Events News

UN Environment and the GGKP Explore Blockchains for Sustainability

On 23-24 July 2018, UN Environment and the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) held a dialogue on "Exploring Blockchain Technology and Environmental Sustainability" to explore existing and potential applications of blockchain technology to address issues of environmental sustainability. Discussions focused on the opportunities – and implications – of applying blockchain technology to a variety of environmental issues, what we can learn from existing best practices, identifying new opportunities, and flagging possible concerns.
April 2012

Achieving Development Goals with Renewable Energy: The Case of Tanzania (Inside Stories on Climate Compatible Development)

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)

Lack of reliable access to electricity is a significant barrier to economic development and job creation in Tanzania. This ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) explores Tanzania’s Small Power Projects (SPP) programme.

January 2016

Vanuatu Energy Demand Projections: Business As Usual Scenario

Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

The Council of Ministers of Vanuatu endorsed the Vanuatu National Energy Roadmap (NERM) in 2013 as the overarching policy framework for developing Vanuatu’s energy sector.

February 2019

Digital Finance and Citizen Action: In financing the future of climate-smart infrastructure

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank Group
Major opportunities for climate mitigation and adaptation lie in the shift to climate-smart infrastructure. This report looks at how digital finance technologies, or fintech, can engage citizens as consumers, pension holding investors, co-producers and voters to be a driving force for raising finance for low carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure development.
October 2020

Resilient Industries: Competitiveness in the Face of Disasters

World Bank Group
Disasters offer the opportunity, with the right frameworks in place, to strengthen competitiveness through build back, better initiatives, and to adapt to long-term climate change and disaster risks. Despite these insights, and the urgency to act, however, the evidential basis for policy intervention and conceptual frameworks for industry resilience are far from definitive, and gaps in knowledge remain. As a result, industry resilience policy and action remain low in both the public and private sectors, and firms and economies still face significant costs of inaction.
April 2017

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017, published on April 6th by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, finds that all investments in renewables totalled

October 2017

Accelerating Innovation in China’s Solar, Wind and Energy Storage Sectors

World Bank Group
The study Accelerating Innovation in China’s Solar, Wind and Energy Storage Sectors explores the potential of green innovation to enhance growth in China.
April 2020

Green Growth in Action: Achieving Green Energy Transformation

Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
This report explains approaches to promoting a green energy transformation, such as applying green growth policies and plans and implementing and financing scalable green energy projects and programs.

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