The objective of this note is to identify/assess the barriers preventing local financial institutions from utilising carbon finance to support their financing activities, and to summarise existing attempts in using carbon revenues to enhance the bankability of these projects by reducing risks.
The National Strategic Plan of Barbados 2006–2025: Global Excellence, Barbadian Traditions provides the blueprint for the realisation of Barbados’ vision of becoming a fully developed society that is prosperous, socially just and globally competitive by the end of the first quarter of 20
Over 20% of the global population – 1.4 billion people – lack access to electricity. Some 40% of the global population – 2.7 billion people – rely today on the traditional use of biomass for cooking.
Bangladesh is at a critical stage in its development, being now listed as a middle-income country, and looking to reach upper-middle income status by 2021.
Energy poverty - lack of access to electricity and reliance on traditional fuels for cooking and heating - remains an enduring problem.
Gual Pahari, Gurgaon, India
The course aims at sensitizing participants on the issues and challenges pertaining to resource security (traditional and non-traditional) and governance including possible opportunities to address these with emphasis on sectors: minerals and metals, energy, and water.