This report examines the opportunities for American businesses and investors in a clean energy economy. It presents technology choices and outlines near- and medium-term investment opportunities across nine U.S. census regions. It finds that lowering climate risk by building a clean energy economy is technically and economically achievable using commercial or near-commercial technology.
Kazakhstan is a vast but sparsely populated country rich in natural resources, located in the centre of the Eurasian landmass. In recent years, it has embarked on building a greeneconomy, taking the lead among its Central Asian neighbours. The country has set itself a clear target: by 2030, emissions are supposed to be reduced by between 15 and 25 per cent, compared with the 1990 level
As part of the country's green economy strategy, Kazakhstan adopted the “National Concept for Transition to a Green Economy up to 2050” in 2013 outlining the principles of the Green Economy as a future development path. The objective is to bring the share of new renewable energy in electricity generation from zero to 3 per cent by 2020, and then to raise it further to 30 per cent by 2030 and 50 per cent by 2050. This study looks into what Kazakhstan has done for promoting the renewable energy, and provide an outlook.
The report Bioenergy and Food Security Assessment for Turkey is structured in five parts and covers a country overview of the agriculture and energy sectors, the assessment of the biomass potential, a techno-economic assessment of the energy end use options, the assessment of the availability of agro-processing residues, and a set of conclusions and recommendations for next steps based on the outcome of the analysis.
This technical analysis for the Nordic Green to Scale report was commissioned to CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo), which is Norway’s foremost institute for interdisciplinary climate research. The report illustrates the scaling potential of 15 proven Nordic low-carbon solutions and presents an analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions of these solutions and their scalability internationally.
This report aims to shed light on how EECCA countries and development co-operation partners are working together to finance climate actions, using the OECD DAC database to examine finance flows by provider, sector, financial instrument, channel, etc. A significant amount was committed by international public sources to the 11 countries comprising the EECCA in 2013 and 2014 (i.e. USD 3.3 billion per year), but the scale of such finance varies considerably from country to country and is insufficient to achieve and strengthen their climate targets communicated through the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions COP21.
In addition, while a range of climate-related policies have already been developed by the EECCA countries, the extent to which such policies are being effectively implemented and conducive to attracting climate finance is still unclear. In this respect, this report proposes a set of questions for the EECCA countries to self-assess their readiness to seize opportunities to access scaled-up climate finance from various sources: public, private, international and domestic.
The historic Paris Agreement on climate change sets the course for a fundamental transformation of the global economy over the next decades. The Agreement’s overarching goal of limiting global average temperature rise to "well below 2°C" will entail profound changes in the global energy system. Achieving the deep cuts in global carbon emissions that this vision requires is no small task given the enormous challenge of implementing – and eventually exceeding – current country climate pledges. This publication examines key sectors, technologies, and policy measures that will be central in this transition to a low-carbon energy system. It addresses the following questions: