This policy brief explains that while biofuels are being touted as a solution to rising fuel prices, growing energy demands and the need to curb emissions from greenhouse gases, they can also come with their own problems.
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Source: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Date: January 2008
This website provides access to the International Energy Agency’s annual Energy Efficient Market Report.
Source: International Energy Agency (IEA)
Date: October 2015
This report describes the relationship between biofuels and food security.
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date: June 2013
This database describes energy efficiency policies and measures in about 90 countries. Information was collected with surveys in about 50 countries and literature reviews in the remaining, which included national energy efficiency plans and other maintained databases.
Source: World Energy Council
Date: April 2015
The public-private roundtable summarized on this web page describes how—contrary to the perception that efficiency policies and industrial development are necessarily in conflict—governments and industry can work together to spur innovation and deliver more energy services while cutting energy wa
Source: Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)
Date: May 2015
The public-private roundtable summarized on this web page addressed how an uptake of clean energy solutions requires public acceptance of new technologies and successful and efficient operation of clean energy installations.
Source: Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)
Date: May 2015
This publication aims to demonstrate the significance of what has been achieved to date and to show how innovative solutions can create new opportunities for electric mobility in the future.
Source: Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)
Date: October 2014
The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation provide the Global Solar Atlas—in addition to a series of global, regional and country GIS data layers and poster maps—to support the scale-up of solar power in their client countries.
Source: The World Bank Group
Date: January 2017
This guide is intended to present, in a practical and comprehensive manner, basic smart city concepts and principles, as well as the elements necessary for the formation of smart cities.
Source: Inter-American Development Bank
Date: July 2016
The International Geothermal Association (IGA), founded in 1988, is a scientific, educational and cultural organization. As of 2016, the IGA has more than 5,000 members in over 65 countries.
Source: International Geothermal Association