Energy

Improving lives of rural communities through developing small hybrid renewable energy systems

Despite significant economic growth in Asia in recent decades, millions of people in rural Asia still lack access to electricity. A project has been implemented to develop small hybrid renewable energy systems in these areas. This publication highlights the experiences of these pilot projects in five developing member countries.

Publication Date: 
12/09/2017
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Hybrid Electric, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Electricity, Energy Efficiency
Energy

Energy diplomacy wins India gas project in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has invited Petronet LNG to set up a liquid gas import terminal in that country, marking a major success for the Narendra Modi government's energy diplomacy and signalling India's emergen

Publication Date: 
07/09/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Sri Lanka, Natural Gas, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bangladesh, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), CNG, Energy
Health

The right treatment

IN POOR countries people are living longer and healthier lives than ever. Since 2000 child mortality has fallen by almost half. The rate of new HIV/AIDS infections has dropped by 40%.

Publication Date: 
26/08/2017
Economist (London)
Tags:
Health Care, Developing Countries, AIDS, Malaria, Primary Health Care, WHO, Non Communicable Diseases, China, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil, South Africa
Agriculture

As rural Sri Lanka dries out, young farmers look for new job options

Scorched by a 10-month drought that has killed crops and reduced residents to buying trucked-in water, Adigama's young people are voting with their feet.

Publication Date: 
17/08/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Agriculture, Droughts, Natural Disasters, Unemployment, Sri Lanka, Farmers, South Asia
Energy

Assessment of Sri Lanka's power sector: 100% electricity generation through renewable energy by 2050

This joint UNDP and Asia Development Bank report ‘Initial Assessment of Sri Lanka’s Power Sector – Electricity Generation through 100 per cent Renewable Energy’ describes the technical challenges to meet this ambitious 100 per cent renewables target and how this target could be financed.

Publication Date: 
15/08/2017
UNDP
Tags:
Electricity, Renewable Energy, Power Industry, Sri Lanka, Power Transmission, Off-Grid
Health

The socio-economic burden of snakebite in Sri Lanka

Snakebite is a major problem affecting the rural poor in many of the poorest countries in the tropics. However, the scale of the socio-economic burden has rarely been studied. We undertook a comprehensive assessment of the burden in Sri Lanka.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
06/07/2017
Geoff K. Isbister, Hithanadura Janaka de Silva, David G. Lalloo
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Tags:
Snakes, Health Effects, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Poverty, Health Care
Wildlife

Elephant tourism is 'fuelling cruelty'

Publication Date: 
06/07/2017
BBC (UK)
Tags:
Wildlife, Elephant, Tourism, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Endangered Species
Habitat And Urbanisation

Mud bricks best for cool, green houses, says study

Simple mud concrete bricks provide the most affordable and sustainable houses in the tropics, a Sri-Lankan study suggests.

Publication Date: 
04/07/2017
Eco Business
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Housing, Building Materials, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Environment, Bricks
Energy

Sri Lanka, India to set up solar unit soon

Plans to undertake a feasibility study and do the groundwork for the project

Publication Date: 
29/06/2017
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Renewable Energy, Sri Lanka, Solar Energy, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Energy
Agriculture

Sri Lanka’s food production hit by extreme drought followed by floods

A severe drought followed by heavy rainfalls in Sri Lanka has hit large swaths of cropping areas, threatening the food security of some 900,000 people, according to a report published last week by

Publication Date: 
28/06/2017
Eco Business
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Security, Sri Lanka, Droughts, Floods, Extreme Weather Events, South Asia, World Food Programme (WFP), FAO

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