Our partners from Sussex University recently launched the South Asia Low Carbon Platform (SALCP). SALCP is a new knowledge-sharing platform for low carbon energy and low carbon development for India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The aim of SALCP is to disseminate and share information on low carbon energy systems and low carbon development strategies that reduce [...]

Desertec is such major visions that to me it always sounded like a dream of the far future – in fact it seems that Europe will import its first solar-generated electricity from North Africa within the next five years!
European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger confirmed the plan after a meeting with energy ministers from Algeria, Morocco [...]

The EU Energy Conference in Dublin has focused on the implementation of a new energy mix this week. It is expected that the European electricity sector will begin to make deep cuts in carbon emissions from 2025 onwards.
In order to really achieve such cuts, it is crucial that policymakers and stakeholders  set the course now, [...]

Recognizing that climate change is to a great extend water change, a new alliance has been formed on June 2nd at a side event at the climate talks in Bonn.  Water is the primary medium through which the negative impacts of climate change will be felt.  Many organizations such as the WWF and the Global [...]

During 2009, REEEP marked the fifth anniversary of its operation as a public-private partnership. In a new article for the 2010 edition of the Energy for Sustainable Development journal, REEEP has synthesised some of the key lessons learned from 129 projects that have been offered funding and moved to implementation.
The article, entitled Lessons for low-carbon [...]

Energy for Sustainable Development (E4SD) has just launched a new complementary capacity building activity, aimed at promoting active dialogue and exchange of ideas to respond to key challenges related to energy for sustainable development.
Unlike the E4SD Online Course, the “Policy Dialogue” focuses on one specific topic at the time, which gets explored in greater depth. [...]

I had the chance to visit two interesting companies last week in Shenzhen, a new metropolis in the Pearl River delta region of China which is a hub of economic activity in China. Shenzhen used to be a fishing village in the 70s, before it was turned into a Special Economic Zone and is located [...]

Deforestation is responsible for 17% of global carbon emission, yet each year an area the size of England is destroyed.  Growing populations, agriculture and the timber industry are amongst the reasons that today the market values forests more destroyed than standing.

In the last 15 days the US government made two announcements regarding the promotion of concentrating solar (CSP) technologies. Yesterday at the MENA Power conference in Cairo, the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) announced three grants for feasibility studies regarding CSP projects in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
The Egyptian CSP project by Taqa Arabia is [...]

Three leading energy efficiency and renewable energy organizations – the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), the Alliance to Save Energy (Alliance) and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) – have jointly released their Compendium of Best Practices: Sharing Local and State Successes in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy [...]