This market report describes how the clean energy transition has come to be driven by emerging markets. This entails significant challenges are large amounts of intermittent energy flood the grid. Despite substantial growth, international political environments prompt some amount of pessimism as nations withdraw from globalism.

This website contains information on more than 800 clean energy policies around the world. It is searchable by policy name, geography, mechanism and status with subsector impacts noted per policy.

This course, which is is designed for interested participants from governments, financial sector, businesses and civil society teaches the basics of sustainable finance and provides opportunities to dive deeper.

India’s deployment of wind and solar surged has surged in recent years thanks to government targets and cost declines that have made variable renewable sources competitive with coal capacity. But without policy intervention and new market design, India’s clean electricity future may struggle to achieve its potential, according to the authors of this report. They explore how India’s ambitious targets may be met through an integrated approach to flexibility that combines demand management, adaptation of dispatchable fleet and energy storage technologies.

This report explores the state of finance for climate adaptation. And it proposes practical near-term solutions to both fill knowledge gaps and increase investment, particularly in developing countries. The authors identify context, business model, and internal capacity barriers to adaptation measures. And they advocate for increasing demand for adaptation services, scaling-up of service providers and derisking adaptation investment.

The Plug and Play project aimed to identify and drive the implementation of institutional and policy solutions to make grid connections for existing and emerging technologies as straightforward and cost effective as possible for customers and proponents while safeguarding electricity supply. This report outlines the findings from the first stage of the project, in which the authors looked at (1) the current connection requirements and processes and (2) the barriers and unnecessary costs they impose on the connection of low-emission technologies to the electricity network.

The October 2018 IPCC report found the Low Energy Demand scenario delivered the fastest results in combatting climate change. This document highlights IPEEC efforts to educate, identify opportunities, and coordinate policy actors to effect efficiency gains. The authors emphasize the organizations through which aspects of this effort are undertaken.

This report provides an integrated analytical framework to identify the drivers and barriers to the use of cooperation mechanisms for deployment of concentrating solar photovoltaics (CSP). The authors empirically identify those drivers and barriers to the use of those mechanisms in the future with the help of a literature review, and they rank the drivers and barriers according to the views of different types of stakeholders.

This study analyzed the capital costs of large solar photovoltaic, wind and hydro generation projects built in the Pacific over the past decade. According to the authors, a large range of project costs for renewable generation projects in the Pacific is due to a variety of factors, including remoteness, scale, local capacity, perceptions of risk, design parameters and any upgrades for existing infrastructure included in the project scope. And there are numerous challenges in obtaining cost breakdown data and making like-with-like comparisons.

This presentation represents the outcome of regional meetings in which international stakeholders were asked to convey their carbon capture and storage (CCS) experiences via a survey. Common themes from the survey include the importance of sustained political support; the importance of CCS awareness for financing; and the need for ongoing research, development, and demonstration. Considerations and recommendations specific to the European and American regions are included.

This report reflects the consensus of two workshops organized by the IEA in 2011 and attended by the geological surveys of Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, together with the IEA. At these workshops, the need for a common procedure was identified to allow for a transparent and robust assessment of geologic CO2 storage resources throughout the world and across geologic settings, regardless of the amount of available geologic data.

This report surveys standards under CSA: Z741-12 ("Geological storage of carbon dioxide"); ISO/TC265 ("Carbon dioxide capture, transportation, and geological storage"); national and international guidelines; and various best practice manuals pertinent to the field. The report compares the standards to the following factors: planning/pre-feasibility, site screening/selection, simulation and modeling, construction/integrity, operation, closure, monitoring and verification, and risk management/assessment.

This online resource library concentrates on carbon capture and storage standards under ISO/TC265 (“carbon dioxide capture, transportation, and geological storage”). Resources are sorted by technical code and international harmonized stage code. Summaries of resources are provided along with purchase prices in Swiss francs.

This review aims to help countries develop their own regulatory frameworks. It provides documentation and analysis of recent carbon capture and storage (CCS) legal and regulatory developments from around the world with the goal of highlighting safe and environmentally responsible CCS deployment and demonstration approaches. It gathers contributions by national, regional, state and provincial governments at all stages of CCS regulatory development. This edition of the report focuses on permitting of projects that have built on already established frameworks and experience.

Based on a review of relevant literature, the authors of this report examine existing carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects and consider future opportunities by identifying gaps, risks and challenges faced by regions that are developing CCS clusters. As part of the review, the authors compares CCS business models.

This paper describes Phase I of the World Bank Group’s technical assistance project for the development of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) in Mexico. Phase I, which was concluded in 2016, saw the completion of three studies: (1) a pre-feasibility study of a proposed post-combustion capture plant, (2) a review of state-of-the-art practices for combining carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery with geological storage of CO2 and (3) a study of the development of a CCUS regulatory framework.

As of this report's writing, while carbon capture and storage (CCS) has experienced growth in various markets, there have been no commercially financed CCS projects. The authors of this report explore why that is the case and what would be required to foster bank-financed CCS projects. They explore the role of export credit agencies, multilaterals, commercial banks and other sources of finance within the CCS industry as well as the unique requirements of each. They conclude that successful demonstration projects can provide momentum to kick-start the young market.

The People's Republic of China's 13th Five Year Plan is characterized by a shift from intensive growth to an increased focus on efficiency and long-term sustainability. Lacking a national plan for carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration and deployment, China partnered with the Asian Development Bank to produce this road map, which outlines the technical, legal, policy, financial and public engagement solutions needed to move CCS to full-scale commercialization.

This road map sets out to answer three questions within the context of the power generation and industrial sectors: (1) What is the current status of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and deployment, particularly in CSLF member countries? (2) Where should CCS be by 2020 and beyond? (3) What is needed to get from Point A to Point B while also addressing the different circumstances of developed and developing countries?

This communique reports on the 6 December 2017 meeting of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum. The meeting focused on expanding and strengthening the business case for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) around the world.

This brochure introduces the Asian Development Bank's Clean Energy Program, which seeks advances in regional energy security, the transition to a low-carbon energy economy and the alleviation of energy poverty. The program pursues these goals by supporting energy efficiency, renewable energy deployment and energy access for the poor. The brochure outlines the program's history, key projects and finance mechanism with a focus on efforts to aggregate markets, facilitate technology transfer and deployment, innovatively finance and build regional partnerships.