Global wind report 2024
The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council. The
Renewable Energy
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Solar lamps for students in Haryana
Harried girl students in rural Haryana will soon get special solar-powered table lamps to beat the increasingly commonplace power outages. The Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency has initiated a new year scheme to help girl students in villages study using the Shikshadeep
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Tension between hydroelectric energy's benefits as a renewable and its detrimental effects on endangered species
The ESA (Endangered Species Act) has provided a mechanism for challenges to hydroelectric power projects in the courts when an endangered or threatened species is put at risk by dam development.
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"At least 20 per cent"
Four Members of European Parliament discuss the renewable energy directive and Europe
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Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and energy security
In view of the growing acceptance of the human cause of Global Climatic Change, and severity of Global Warming the comity of Nations have realized the need for developing new and renewable energy sources (NRES).
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Europe adopts climate change package
Both EU member states and the European Parliament agreed in December upon legislation to combat climate change, but critics claim that the compromise deal contains too many loopholes.
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Chinas clean revolution
China has made signifi cant progress in practically every low carbon economic sector in recent years and has already become a leader in a number of critical renewable energy markets. This report chronicles the rapid growth of low carbon industries and policies in China and turns the spotlight on several leading innovators.
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Implications for the Pacific
The world
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Development and climate change: the World Bank group at work
In October 2008, the World Bank Group (WBG) adopted the Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change (SFDCC). The document was developed in consultation with, and endorsed by, governments of 185 member countries.
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Energy policy
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been providing assistance to its developing member countries (DMCs) in the energy sector for the last 40 years, focusing on electricity sector expansion programs, interventions in the oil and gas sectors, institutional capacity building, and power sector reforms, governance, and efficiency improvement.
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Green map
Europe