This report summarizes the experience of public financing agencies and relevant lessons learned regarding the use of publicly backed guarantees (PBGs) to build clean energy markets.
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Source: United Nations
Date: January 2010
Ashden champions and promotes practical, local energy solutions that cut carbon, protect the environment, reduce poverty, and improve people's lives. Ashden holds an annual awards ceremony to honor sustainable energy pioneers.
Source: Ashden
The objectives of this report are to (1) contribute to policymakers’ understanding of the factors that institutional investors consider when investing in areas such as renewable energy and energy efficiency and (2) define what institutional investors see as "investment-grade" climate change and
Source: United Nations
Date: September 2011
This report showcases a methodology to evaluate the performance of different public finance mechanisms and their suitability for replication in other applications, policy contexts, and geographies across the clean energy continuum.
Source: United Nations, SEF Alliance
Date: November 2011
This report is the fifth in a series documenting the World Bank Group’s progress in supporting renewable energy and energy efficiency. It details the successes of, and lessons learned from, the investments made by the World Bank Group over the past five years.
Source: The World Bank
Date: December 2009
This publication examines many aspects of renewable energy in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Many authors contributed to these in-depth examinations from many different viewpoints.
Source: ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), Canary Island Institute of Technology, Casa Africa
Date: January 2012
This website provides information and analyses of technologies, policies, and practices for efficient, high-performance buildings and smart energy systems around the world.
Source: Johnson Controls
This background paper describes how the nexus approach can enhance water, energy and food security by increasing efficiency, reducing trade-offs, building synergies and improving governance across sectors.
Source: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Date: November 2011
This report describes how crafting global actions that all nations believe to be equitable has been a central challenge for international climate policy for more than two decades.
Source: World Resources Institute (WRI)
Date: June 2015
This report considers remote prosumers as roof-top solar PV customers in remote areas and islands. It describes how they are deploying renewable energy, some with ambitious plans to meet 100% of their electricity or even final energy needs with renewables.
Source: International Energy Agency Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD)
Date: June 2015