Renewable energy technologies for rural development
This paper provides an overview of some of the issues surrounding the use of renewable energy technologies (RETs) to increase access to modern energy services in rural areas.
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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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Concentrating solar power in China and India: a spatial analysis of technical potential and the cost of deployment
Coal power generation in China and India is expected to double and triple, respectively, over the next 20 years, increasing exposure to fuel price volatility, exacerbating local air pollution, and hastening global climate change. Concentrating solar power (CSP) is a growing source of utility-scale, pollution-free electricity, but its potential in Asia remains largely unexamined.
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Short news
>> Following recent deaths at mines in South Africa, the region's biggest mining union the National Union of Mineworkers has warned it will go on strike unless companies focus on workers' safety. The
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Paper tiger
On paper, India has ratified almost all multilateral environmental conventions including the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES Convention), the
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Reverent reference
THE rootless post-modernist, lost in exhausting productivity and mindless consumerism, has been forced to wake up to the severe erosion of the environment. But despite the host of developmental
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Citizen clean
Every individual has a right to live in a clean environment, says the UN<br>
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A clean ideal
An ambitious UN project to achieve a zero emissions industrial utopia takes off
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Past continuous
Remains of asbestos mining industry are still polluting the rivers and air in South Africa
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An ancient genus
The east Himalayan tahr or shapi
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Bridging the gap
http://www.unep.net This recently developed website from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) promotes the UNEP's programme of partnership and cooperation in preserving the
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Flying dirt
Boeing s new aircraft threatens to aggravate pollution
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SRI LANKA
Farmers in Sri Lanka are up in arms against low-priced agricultural imports from India that have flooded the country's markets. After prolonged protest campaigns against the duty-free potato
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UNITED NATIONS
A study sponsored by the United Nations Develop ment Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environmental Program me (UNEP) and the World Bank has sent out clear signals that human beings will
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ARGENTINA
The proposal of a German organisation to plant trees in Argentina is facing large-scale opposition from the country's environ mentalist.Prima Klima, a non-governmental organi sation, is planning
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Website review: http://www.inequality.org
The global divide in income, health and wealth has only widened further in this era of unregulated capitalism. And there are no signs of it being bridged
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Hot, but not bothered
A NEW finding by the scientists of the New Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) brings good tidings for Indian farmers. High levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the
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The rich polluter
ExxonMobil has emitted five per cent of CO<sub>2</sub> pollutant since 1882
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When to flower?
Gene responsible in barley found