Global Initiatives

Good practice guidelines

Modern biomass, and the resulting useful forms of bioenergy produced from it, are anticipated by many advocates to provide a significant contribution to the global primary energy supply of many IEA member countries during the ...

Jan 2007
IDA at Work: Energy - Improving services for the poor

Energy services are vital for economic development and improvements in the standard of living for the world’s poor. Agriculture, industry, commerce and household access to energy underpin growth in productivity.This booklet describes how the International ...

Jan 2007
Bioenergy: objectives–technology (Bioenergy Barometer)

The biofuels market is not a market like the others because its development is closely tied to its total or partial exemption from the tax on petroleum products. Moreover, numerous EU member countries have not ...

Jan 2007
Assessing policy options for increasing the use of renewable energy for sustainable development: modelling energy scenarios for Sichuan, China

The WSSD’s Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) in Paragraph 20(e) calls onGovernments and other stakeholders to, “With a sense of urgency, substantially increase the global share of renewable energy sources with the objective of increasing ...

Dec 2006
Bioenergy in Europe: experiences and prospects

Although Europe is a relatively small producer of ethanol (2.6 percent of world production in 2005), it produces a sizable share of the world’s biodiesel (88 percent of world production in 2005). Production started in ...

Dec 2006
Bioenergy in Europe: experiences and prospects

Although Europe is a relatively small producer of ethanol (2.6 percent of world production in 2005), it produces a sizable share of the world’s biodiesel (88 percent of world production in 2005). Production started in ...

Dec 2006
Notes from the Sustainable Biofuels Stakeholder Meeting of November 28th

A multi-stakeholder meeting on Sustainable Biofuels was held at the EPFL in Lausanne on 28 November 2006 to investigate the potential for developing internationally accepted and implementable standards for sustainable biofuels. This document summarizes the ...

Nov 2006
Energy & Climate - A contribution to the dialogue on long term cooperative action

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Focus Area Energy and Climate offers the following thought piece as a contribution to the dialogue on long-term cooperative action on climate change.This document offers some initial ...

Nov 2006
WTO disciplines and biofuels: opportunities and constraints in the creation of a global marketplace

This paper examines how the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) might apply to the biofuels sector. We emphasize “might” because this is a topic that has not yet been addressed in great detail ...

Oct 2006
WTO disciplines and biofuels: opportunities and constraints in the creation of a global marketplace

Producing fuel from agricultural crops has already raised questions about the impacts on the supply of food and land. What has received less attention is the shift that would result in the location of feedstock ...

Oct 2006
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