This report is the first-ever comprehensive scientific assessment of the air pollution outlook in the Asia and the Pacific region. It outlines 25 clean air measures that could achieve safe air quality levels for 1 billion people by 2030, with numerous benefits for public health, economic development, and the climate.
This case study provides an updated overview of the European electricity sector transition, focusing on key topics like the growth in renewables, conventional power generation, electricity consumption, and CO₂ emissions. The case study also provides an overview of 2018 electricity consumption, generation and emissions by country with downloadable data for emissions by country to enable others to also perform up-to-date analysis.
This report takes an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities to provide clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa.
This Guidance Note aims to illustrate how the consideration of ESG factors may inform the forecasting of financials, such as revenues, operating costs and capital expenditure, etc. in the context of assessing an infrastructure asset. It selects twelve ESG factors and identifies their potential risks and opportunities for infrastructure assets as they may emerge throughout an asset’s life cycle (development, construction, operation, and decommissioning). It then sets out to quantify these risks and opportunities for the purpose of developing or adjusting the financial forecasts of such assets.
The climate change document UAE Climate Risk Assessment & Adaptation Measures in Key Sectors: Health, Energy, Infrastructure & Environment is a synthesis of the UAE's climate risk assessment conducted in its four key sectors - health, energy, infrastructure, and the environment - as the first step to implement the National Climate Change Adaptation Program.
This country brief describes the significant role that the off-grid solar power sector could play in meeting Mozambique's universal electricity access goal and provides a structured overview of the key barriers hindering private sector participation for scaling-up the sector as well as recommendations to address the identified barriers.