Global Initiatives
| Bioenergy’s potential for rural development and poverty alleviation Most of the world’s poor dwell in rural communities with limited or no access to modern energy services. It is widely acknowledged that the majority of people in developing countries depend on ‘traditional biomass’. The... |
Nov 2011 |
| A decision support tool for sustainable bioenergy – An overview Whether or not bioenergy can deliver on the objectives without creating new and additional pressures depends largely on the existence of a robust and inclusive national planning process and project design and management.Bioenergy... |
Sep 2010 |
| Energy poverty - How to make modern energy access universal? Lack of access to modern energy services is a serious hindrance to economic and social development and must be overcome if the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to be achieved. This report - which presents the results of... |
Sep 2010 |
| Energy for a sustainable future - Summary report and recommendations At the global level, the energy system – supply, transformation, delivery and use – is the dominant contributor to climate change, representing around 60 per cent of total current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Current patterns... |
Apr 2010 |
| UN-Energy - Looking to the Future UN-Energy was set up in 2004, and this review finds that the original justification and rationale for its establishment still exists, and the case for clear, coherent and coordinated engagement by the United Nations family in... |
2010 |
| Global gaps in clean energy research, development, and demonstration This paper, prepared in support of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) Global Partnership by the International Energy Agency, seeks to inform decision making and prioritisation of RD&D investments and other policies to accelerate... |
Dec 2009 |
| Technology action plan: Bioenergy - Report to the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Bioenergy includes any kind of chemical energy accumulated through photosynthetic processes in organic plant matter (i.e., biomass). Example sources of bioenergy include dedicated energy crops (short rotation wood, perennial... |
Dec 2009 |
| Perceptions on fairness and efficiency of the REDD value chain - Methods and results from pilot analyses in Indonesia and Peru Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) will require a ‘value chain’ that links global beneficiaries to local actions towards high carbonstoring land use patterns. The value chain includes: effectively... |
Dec 2009 |
| Working for the climate - Renewable energy & the green job [R]evolution Under the Energy [R]evolution scenario, renewable energy gains a much bigger share of the market through dynamic growth. At the same time, nuclear energy is phased out and the number of fossil fuel-fired power plants required for... |
Sep 2009 |
| World Investment Report 2009 - Transnational corporations, agricultural production and development World foreign direct investment flows fell moderately in 2008 following a five-year period of uninterrupted growth, in large part as a result of the global economic and financial crisis.While developed economies were initially... |
Sep 2009 |
