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- Publication 16 August 2021 Renewable energy technologies: barriers and policy implications Renewable energy, especially for electricity generation, has been growing at a fast pace with global renewable power capacity addition reaching two-thirds of total generation capacity added in 2018. Renewable power has become competitive with fossil fuel in many countries but renewables still face a variety of barriers to achieve their full potential. The barriers vary across countries/regions and include economic, technical, awareness and information, financial, regulatory and policy,…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Strengthening National MRV Systems – Options and Approaches for India-MRV Framework for Utility -Scale Solar Policies and Actions
- Publication 16 August 2021 Economics of Renewable Energy
- Publication 16 August 2021 Energy transition governance - Addressing the new governance of the industry, and the regulatory challenges in Brazil
- Publication 16 August 2021 Incorporating Energy Service Companies in Nationally Determined Contributions: The potential of ESCOs for meeting the climate goals in the Paris Agreement Energy efficiency is central to efforts to make the transition to clean energy, achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5˚C by the turn of the century. Energy efficiency is a cost-effective means of reducing 40% of the carbon emissions required to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. As of 2018, there are 789 million people without access to electricity, 2.8 billion without access to clean cooking and more than a billion at high…
- Publication 16 August 2021 ¿Influyen el clima y la contaminación atmosférica en la transmisión e incidencia de la nueva enfermedad Covid19? The COVID-19 pandemic and the mobility limitations imposed to try to contain its spread have led to a drastic decrease in emissions of air pollutants and CO2. For the former, the drop in the atmospheric concentrations of the main urban air pollutants leads to a decrease in mortality attributable to air pollution. This has not been the case in the case of CO2 emissions; though they have decreased by close to 8%, that is insufficient to show a measurable impact in the context of the climate…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin - Current Situation and Risks for the Future
- Publication 16 August 2021 Collaborative brief on taxonomy of climate change adaptation technology