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CDKN releases new Policy Brief: Climate change and poverty reduction
23 Aug 2011
by Florian Bauer - Category: Contributed News
CDKN’s new Policy Brief on vlimate change and poverty reduction outlines the impacts of climate change on achieving and sustaining development goals. It reviews the evidence gap on climate effects on poverty, and recommends how to ensure effective development in the face of climate change. The brief, written by Simon Anderson, Head of Climate Change [...]
Sustainable Banking
31 Jan 2011
by Rachel Maxwell (Deputy Director REIL) - Category: Contributed News
John Cassidy wrote in a recent article in the New Yorker, “When the banking system behaves the way it is supposed to…it is akin to a power utility, distributing money (power) to where it is needed and keeping an account of how it is used.” Ideally, banks provide financial services to citizens and organizations “to [...]
The fifth edition of the Sustainable Energy Regulators Network policy and regulation energy review has been released. This energy database outlines the latest policy frameworks, regulatory institutions and mechanisms relevant to renewable energy and energy efficiency, country by country in: The Caribbean, Central and Latin America; Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet [...]
A panel of five experts (Hans Jorgen Koch, Danish Energy Agency, Julien Pestiaux, European Climate Foundation, Paolo Frankl, IEA, Sven Teske, Greenpeace, Dr. Kirit Parikh, Planning Commission, India, Dr. Karsten Sach, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germany) led by Dr. Eric Martinot, (Institute for Sustainable Energy politics) discussed the future development and scenarios for RES [...]
Video Transcript from the Compendium of Best Practices launch event @ Yale University
06 Sep 2010
by Florian Bauer - Category: Events
A few months ago, I published an article in this blog on the Compendium of Best Practices: Sharing Local and State Successes in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy from the United States, in which state and local governments share the key elements of their programs, lessons learned and what made each program a success. The [...]
Reuters wrote on Monday that scientist called for the IPPC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to undergo for thorough reform in terms of sticking to solid scientific evidence and avoid policy advocacy in order to stay credible. The IPPC has been criticized over the last few months about admitting its 2007 report wrongly warning about [...]
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