The latest report on Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) power, a renewable energy resource which has a significant potential for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. Explores the scale, potential and barriers of implementing CST in US, India, China and Middle East & North Africa.
This report is a synthesis of three individual country studies carried out in Bangladesh, Nepal and Nigeria in 2008-2009 that investigate the sustainability and equity aspects of total sanitation programmes.
This report provides: an overview of possible options for differentiation in the CDM between different project types and between host countries; a qualitative assessment of the practical feasibility of a number of selected options, with a focus on possible criteria for differentiation and institutional and governance implications; and an assessment of possible impacts on the supply of CDM credits
This report aims to provide a general framework for the implementation of adaptation in the Mediterranean context, based on a number of important clarifications and accompanied by operational recommendations. In the first part the scientific basis of the study will be set, notably from the works of the IPCC.
A European Eco-efficient Economy has been prepared as a background report for the 2009 Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It forms a common basis for discussions at the informal ministerial meetings of the Council dealing with energy, environment and competitiveness .
This paper presents comprehensive proposals for the post-2012 climate regime: the scale of the challenge, emission targets for industrialised countries, increased actions by Southern countries, financing, technology, adaptation and deforestation. The proposals are based on ongoing research by the Wuppertal Institute.
As part of contribution by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to the ongoing dialogue on the impact of the global financial crisis, present in this collection some
