Reports and Documents

It is a common belief that China’s CO2 emissions will continue to grow throughout this century and will dominate global emissions.

The publication titled “Energy Statistics 2011”, is brought out every year by Central Statistics Office (CSO) and the present one is 18th in the series.

This report provides information to relevant stakeholders on the importance of developing the solar energy sector in Asia and the Pacific, investment opportunities and challenges in the sector, and the approach adopted by the Asia Solar Energy Initiative to facilitate the rapid deployment of solar energy applications in the region

The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Bloomberg New Energy Finance, has created a series of reports as part of its Green Investing project. This year's report, Green Investing 2011: Reducing the Cost of Financing, builds on two previous reports, Green Investing: Towards a Clean Energy Infrastructure and Green Investing 2010: Policy Mechanisms to Bridge the Financing Gap.

This paper is developed in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), is aimed at proposing the improvement of clean development mechanism (CDM) in the power generation sector based on the experience through the implementation of capacity building while describing the recent information and identifying issues and challenges in India's power generation sector through IGES CDM

The clean energy race is on. The investment and finance data presented in this report show that countries are jockeying for a leadership position in this growing and increasingly competitive sector. Countries with clear, consistent and constructive clean energy policies are powering investment forward.

This briefing shows that Europe can rapidly phase-out nuclear power while also increasing its climate target to a 30 percent emission cut. It also criticises voluntary stress tests proposed for European nuclear power stations and makes policy recommendations to EU leaders.
 

UNCTAD has published this first in a series of volumes focusing on issues pertinent to "green" economic growth, in run-up to 2012 global conference on green economy, two decades after 1992 Rio "Earth Summit".

This report aims to inform forest and energy decision makers in