The main purpose of this handbook is to assist people who are working in or with local government to develop sustainable energy and climate action plans and implementation programs.
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Source: United Nations
Date: January 2009
This report explains how the need for lighting products in places like Africa remains critical, as a large portion of households still have no access to electrical services.
Source: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Date: January 2015
The public-private roundtable summarized on this web page describes how the transition to a global clean energy economy depends on the world's cities, which accounting for roughly 75 per cent of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Source: Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)
Date: May 2015
El seminario proporcionará información sobre cómo los países de América Latina y el Caribe pueden recibir asistencia técnica del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para la realización de sus planes para el acceso universal a la energía.
Source: Clean Energy Solutions Center, Sustainable Energy for All Americas (SE4ALL Americas), United Nations Foundation’s Energy Access Practitioner Network
Date: February 2015
This report identifies the main risks and barriers limiting investment. It also supplies a toolkit for policy makers, public and private investors, and public finance institutions to scale up their investments in renewable energy.
Source: The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
This report presents lessons for implementing local renewables policies in cities large and small, local government activities to drive renewable energy, as well as how national governments can create enabling frameworks for cities. Local governments are ideal drivers of change.
Source: Renewable Energy Policy Network for 21st Century
Date: May 2011
The Renewable Energy Toolkit (REToolkit) provides a set of tools to assist in improving the design and implementation of on-grid, mini-grid, and off-grid renewable energy projects.
Source: The World Bank
The Global Environment Facility has supported technologies including solar thermal heating, solar thermal power, off-grid and on-grid solar photovoltaic, wind power, small hydro power, geothermal power, and biomass in projects globally.
Source: Global Environment Facility
Date: November 2009
This report examines those policies, regulations, and institutional capacities in the electricity sector that will direct both public and private investment towards sustainable energy options.
Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development, World Resources Institute
Date: November 2009
This presentation evaluates a series of case studies of public-private partnerships to determine the best practices for fostering the expansion of both on and off-grid electricity access.
Source: World Bank
Date: June 2009