Reports and Documents

Financing Global Climate Change Mitigation specifically aims at providing an appraisal of the energy efficiency situation worldwide and giving guidance on further action.

This Trade and Environment Review is about finding a policy response to one of the defining challenges of our times

This booklet focuses on IFC's work in climate change, highlighting leading projects from all regions and explaining their role in filling the financing gap.

This report provides an update on the status of investment in clean energy and how the sector has survived the financial crisis. It also provides a critical overview of the various public and private sector financing mechanisms at the national, state and local level that could help unleash further necessary investment.

Building on its current strengths and a capacity of 2400MW Karnataka intends to establish a dynamic renewable sector with emphasis on different forms of generation-wind, mini hydro, biomass, cogeneration and solar. This renewable energy policy aims at systematic and faster development of Renewable Energy sources to achieve a capacity of 6600 MWs by 2014.

CERC's order stakeholders comments for setting of the benchmark capital cost of solar-PV for financial years 2010-11, 2011-2012 and solar-thermal projects for the years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-13. The order also includes comments and calculations presented by stakeholders in a public hearing in February 2010.

In this essay, the authors describe some important themes in energy and environmental policy.

This document presented in the one of the side event of COP15, Copenhagen, discusses the lack of access to clean and modern energy in India rural population despite government initiatives in promoting cleaner technologies. The authors explore CDM/POA potential to promote renewables for GHG mitigation while achieving desired energy transformation and development in rural areas.

Speech of Mr. Jairam Ramesh, Minister of state (independent charge) for Environment & Forests, at the high-level segment of the UN climate conference, Copenhagen.

This discussion paper presents the challenge of decarbonising entire economies of South Africa which is fossil-fuel-based and emission-intensive. Any mitigation strategy thus has to be carefully designed. The energy sector is a vital part of the economy and at the same time contributes most to South Africa