The course aims at sensitizing participants on the issues and challenges pertaining to resource security (traditional and non-traditional) and governance including possible opportunities to address these with emphasis on sectors: minerals and metals, energy, and water.
This report, Renewable Energy: A green growth assessment in Kalimantan, assesses the monetary costs and benefits associated with renewable energy projects in Central and East Kalimantan.
In the present report, good practices and lessons learned on inclusive green growth in selected sectors of the Ethiopian economy are documented.
This report addresses investment in sustainable urban infrastructure and provides an overview of financial instruments that are commonly used to finance infrastructure development. It analyses their potential to support the transition towards sustainable infrastructure, with a primary focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy at city level. Cities are faced with the huge challenge of providing infrastructure that meets the needs of a rising urban population with limited public resources. Cities already account for over 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption and face rising climate change-related risks. The way cities develop, particularly large and fast-growing cities in developing and emerging economies, is likely to have profound and long-term implications for both climate change and the global economy. Decisions and investments in urban infrastructure must be leveraged to achieve sustainable economic growth within the carrying capacity of the planet’s systems and resources.
This article explores the regional disputes on the shared river and the degree of cooperation that exists. Despite prevailing negative impacts – i.e., the changes in sedimentation and the river flow regimes – caused by upstream dam construction in Turkey and affecting downstream Georgia, the article finds that the creation of a regional electricity market seems to be opening up a new avenue for cooperation between Turkey and Georgia also on the so far unilaterally utilized river.
The electricity system in Turkey faces three challenges. First, demand for electricity is growing as economic growth brings increased energy usage. Second, as the electricity supply expands to keep pace with demand there is the need to ensure that electricity prices remain affordable. Third, as energy and electricity are at the heart of modern economies, energy security is critical for the electricity sector. To balance the competing demands of demand growth, affordability and energy security, policy must seek to create a framework that promotes technologies and projects that meet these needs and deliver sustainable development.