Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
Fossil Fuels
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India set to defend fuel subsidy at G20 meet
Says Report Ignores Subsidies Offered By Developed Nations New Delhi: India is expected to stand firm on its fuel subsidy regime at the meeting of G20 finance ministers at Busan in South Korea on Friday and tear into a report prepared for the grouping, blaming government dole for encouraging inefficient use of fossil fuels and discouraging a switch to greener energy sources.
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India and the new Energy Revolution
There is an urgent need for New Delhi to draw up its own renewable energy strategy Shyam Saran / June 08, 2010, 0:38 IST
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Delivering on the G-20 commitment to reform fossil-fuel subsidies: essential outcomes from Toronto
In September 2009, at the Pittsburgh Summit, G-20 leaders recognized that "inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change", and committed to phase out and rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that lead to wasteful consumption.
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Increasing the momentum of fossil-fuel subsidy reform: a roadmap for international cooperation
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the search for a home, or homes, for hosting international deliberations and action on energy subsidy reform. The two most obvious contenders for such an ?institutional home? are the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Opportunities to transform the electricity sector in major economies
Recent actions by many governments to promote more efficient, cleaner sources of energy signify positive steps to help improve energy security and mitigate climate change. Transformation of the energy sector, however, requires that commitments to energy efficiency and clean energy be sustained on a global level for many years to come.
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Madhya Pradesh solar energy policy 2010: draft
The Madhya Pradesh Solar Energy Policy
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A new Korean war
Since 97% of its fossil fuels are imported, raising the share of renewables to 11% by 2030 is South Korea's solution<br />Barun Roy / New Delhi August 12, 2010, 0:15 IST<br />
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A how-to-guide: Measuring subsidies to fossil fuel producers
<p>The production of fossil fuels
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A peoples manifesto for Bihar - Empowering the state and its people
<p>In one of the first interventions of its kind in Bihar, Greenpeace, Bihar Times and Civil Society Groups of the state today asked political leadership to end the energy crisis by committing to a policy change for adoption of Decentralized Renewable Energy.</p>
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Obama Says Energy Policy A Top Priority Next Year
President Barack Obama said revamping U.S.