To promote the use of a cleaner brick-making technology (Hybrid Hoffman Kiln) to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. This will be achieved by leveraging the potential carbon finance benefits from energy efficiency improvement making the alternative cleaner technology more economically viable.
The objective of the Coal Fired Generation Rehabilitation Project for India is to improve energy efficiency of selected coal-fired power generation units through renovation and modernization (R&M) and improved operations and maintenance (O&M). The global environmental objective of the project is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficient...
This project was conceived in 2006-2007 to work with the government of the Republic of Montenegro to overcome the main barriers that had previously limited the development of and investment in the small hydropower technology. To attain this goal several steps had to be fulfilled: 1) develop streamlined and transparent...
Between 1996 and March 2011, the Rura Energy Development Programme (REDP) enabled more than 57,000 households to light their homes, cook their food and power their enterprises from sources of clean energy. This happened in the course of REDP developing a successful community-managed model for extending access to electricity in...
The overaching objectives of this project are to promote Mexico’s efficient use of energy and to mitigate climate change by increasing the use of energy-efficient technologies at the residential level.
The project will contribute to stimulating investment and policy initiatives that promote Green Economy in Kenya. By doing this, it will enhance and support the existing and future national programmes on Sustainable Development, climate change and sustainable energy production.
The project comprises of the following components:
1) A Green Economy...
The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development represented by the Permanent Secretariat of the National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development organized, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a national workshop on “Green Economy and Environmental Accounting” in Ouagadougou, Burkina...
PAGE aims to contribute to the transformation of national economic structures in developing countries with the ultimate intention to achieve environmental sustainability, decent job creation, reduced poverty, and improved human well-being. PAGE is designed as a multi-year initiative that initially will deploy the expertise of its key partners to progressively...
This project aimed to broaden and refocus national and international policy agendas to improve prospects for enhancing technology development, diffusion and transfer. It was designed to translate the latest academic insights into policy, explore national and international instruments for advancing technology and examine technology value chains as case studies of...