Reports and Documents

To assist policymakers and the energy industry with pressing forward sustainable energy systems, the World Energy Council, in collaboration with project partner Oliver Wyman, publishes the report World Energy Trilemma 2012: Time to get real – the case for sustainable energy policy.

Investing in ultra-low-sulfur fuel (ULSF, fuels with less than 10 ppm sulfur content) and clean vehicle technologies in India will not come without costs. But the benefits of these investments, in terms of reduced healthcare costs and higher productivity, far outweigh the costs. This paper discusses these issues in detail.

The Plan proposes an acceleration of growth over the plan period to reach 9 percent in the terminal year, yielding an average growth rate of 8.2 percent for the plan period as a whole.

This ADB study documents the transformation of value chains moving rice and potatoes between the farm gate and the consumer in Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, and India.

This report presents information on past and projected climate change and related impacts in Europe, based on a range of indicators.

By 2030, according to the projections of the United Nations (UN) Population Division, each of the major regions of the developing world will hold more urban than rural dwellers; by 2050 fully two-thirds of their inhabitants are likely to live in urban areas.

On average, efficiency of existing coal-fired power plants is quite low and this IEA technology roadmap focuses on development and deployment of HELE coal technologies for power generation & provides guidance on installing latest technologies in plants.

This report maps for the fourth consecutive year BFI climate financial flows to developing countries. During 2011 the members of the working group accounted for nearly 10 billion USD of climate change finance to developing countries, and 13% of all public climate finance. 74% of these funds were allocated to mitigation and 26% to adaptation.