Renewable Energy
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IAF, the Renewable
Energy Technology/Energy Efficiency Investment Advisory
Facility helps financial institutions evaluate potential
renewable energy technology or energy efficiency investments
in developing countries and countries with economies in
transition (Past Activity).
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Geothermal
plant in Vanuatu |
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Biogas
plant in Philippines
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Clean Energy
fund in Nepal
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Overcoming
barriers to renewable energy technologies in India.
The project identified barriers to penetration of renewable
energy technologies (RETs) and specific measures to overcome
them, through a case study in the State of Maharashtra.
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Indian Solar Loan Programme.
The goal of the project is to bring modern electricity services
to rural Indian households and enterprises in an environmentally
sustainable, climate-friendly manner, by means of solar
home systems. The project is a partnership between UNEP,
its' Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment (URC),
and two of India's major banking groups - Canara Bank and
Syndicate Bank.
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Renewable
Energy in Pacific Island Countries is a project aimed
at matching better access to energy services with the need
for achieving sustainable development. (Past activity)
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Reducing greenhouse
gas emissions by promoting biomass energy technology in
South Asia. A project in development aimed at reducing
GHG emissions through promotion and dissemination of clean
and efficient biomass energy technologies in seven South
Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka). This initiative is likely to be
started in the first half of 2002.
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Global
Seminar for Women Leaders on the Uptake of Renewable Energy
Technology, held on Perth, Western Australia, 27 June
to 4 July, 2001. Three workshop sessions were held to discuss
gender issues and action plans. Planning and discussion
sessions were also held, where delegates interacted and
discussed technology options for their own nations and developed
regional/national follow-up activities for awareness raising
and training of women on the uptake of renewable energy
Resources and technologies.
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Energy Efficiency
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Energy
Efficiency Financial Mechanisms in Brazil, China and India.
The aim of this joint initiative between the World Bank
and UNEP, is to increase the amount of investments on Energy
Efficiency projects in Brazil, China and India.
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Capacity building in Malaysia: developing an energy-economic
model. The model is a CGE model including the energy
sector. The aim is primarily to analyse effects of relative
changes in prices of energy consumption. The model and data
collection has been carried out in close collaboration with
Rambøll and participants from various local institutions:
PTM (Malaysia
Energy Centre), University
Tenaga Nasional and the Malaysian
Institute of Economic Research.
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Energy Policy
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Energy Subsidy
Reform. Workshops on energy subsidy reform and sustainable
development. (Workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand,
16-17 January 2001, with an emphasis on the Asian region
and specific needs of Asian countries).
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Economics
of GHG Limitations. The main objective of the project
has been to provide a methodology, an implementing framework
and a reporting system which countries can follow in meeting
their reporting obligations under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The project comprised
national studies in Indonesia, and Vietnam.
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GERIAP. The project
aims to assist Asian businesses to address climate
change by becoming more energy efficient, and thereby reducing
greenhouse gas emissions and costs. The focus is on the
steel, pulp &
paper, cement, and chemicals sectors as they are major emitters
of
greenhouse gases.
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Regional
perspectives on energy and sustainable development,
a meeting held in Bali Indonesia, November 2000, as a contribution
to the ninth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
The meeting adopted the Bali Declaration on Asia-Pacific
Perspectives on Energy and Sustainable Development as well
as the Sustainable Energy Development Action Programme,
Strategies and Implementation Modalities for the Asian and
Pacific Region, 2001-2005.
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National
Communications Support Programme (NCSP). It is a URC
two-year initiative in collaboration with the UNDP and UNEP
designed to provide additional technical assistance to Non-Annex
I Parties in the preparation of its initial national communications
to the United
Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). (Past
activity)
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Climate Change and Sustainable Development Implications.
A new methodoligical approach for assessing sustainable
development indicators for potential climate-change-mitigation
projects in developing countries has been developed and
tested in a number of case studies for Thailand.This approach
has provided input to the establishment of a global network
of centres of excellence in industrialised countries and
developed countries on sustainable development and climate
change.
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