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10 Steps in 10 Years to 100 Percent Renewable Power

This is a conceptual plan for achieving the goal of 100% renewable energy by 2018. It will be updated with specific recommendations and additional resources in the near future. (Post Carbon Institute, 2008)

http://www.postcarbon.org/100-percent-renewable

(Added: Mon Aug 18 2008   Modified: Wed Aug 20 2008   Hits: 7)

Solar Power Breakthrough Stores Energy for Later Use

A report on the breakthrough that means solar power can now be stored during the day and used at night. (Environmental News Service, 4 August 2008)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/04/10799/

(Added: Tue Aug 05 2008   Hits: 9)

Another inconveniant truth: How biofuel policies are deepening poverty and accelerating climate change

This Oxfam Report argues that "Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis. But they may not be a solution to either, and instead are contributing to a third: the current food crisis."

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/downloads/bp114_inconvenient_truth.pdf

(Added: Mon Jun 30 2008   Modified: Thu Jul 24 2008   Hits: 70)

Emissions Trading: Good Governance Requires 100% Auctioning

This article by Iain McGill, Regina Betz argues 'that emissions trading permits should be auctioned'.

http://cpd.org.au/book/export/html/4644

(Added: Thu Jun 26 2008   Hits: 36)

Fuelling Exclusion? The Biofuels Boom and Poor People

This report by the iied and the FAO uses a literature review and interviews with specific contacts to examine the pros and cons of the rapidly emerging biofuels industry.

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/12551IIED.pdf

(Added: Tue Jun 24 2008   Hits: 9)

UNCTAD's position on biofuels policies and the global food crisis

This article outlines UNCTAD's position in relation to biofuel policies and how they influence the global food crisis.

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=4526&lang=1

(Added: Thu Jun 19 2008   Modified: Fri Jun 27 2008   Hits: 22)

Capturing King Coal: Deploying Carbon Capture and Storage Systems in the U.S. at Scale

This report by the World Resources Institute argues that 'There is in fact considerable complexity involved in deploying a national CCS system at the scale necessary to achieve significant emissions reductions. Indeed, it amounts to no less fundamental a transformation of the country's (USA) energy infrastructure than would a huge-scale adoption of wind energy, for instance.

http://pdf.wri.org/capturing_king_coal.pdf

(Added: Mon Jun 16 2008   Hits: 15)

Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels

The legal status of an indigenous territory in the far north of Brazil, and biofuels, are two hot potatoes at the Third National Conference on the Environment being held in the capital city, which is focusing on climate change.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42297

(Added: Wed May 21 2008   Hits: 28)

Green or greenwashing?

At one stage, Bajaj Auto was using captive wind power to generate 90% of its electricity from its own turbines and "banking" the rest. There are indeed businesses that are going green, but the majority of these claims are still greenwash, says Darryl D'Monte

http://infochangeindia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7128&Itemid=69

(Added: Fri May 16 2008   Hits: 38)

Renewable Energy Technologies and Poverty Alleviation

Developing countries need modern and sustainable forms of energy to satisfy the needs of their growing populations and expanding economic activities. Renewable energy technologies are a potential solution, but until now they have not been given the attention they deserve. A variety of documents from the Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development

http://www.gnesd.org/publications.htm

(Added: Fri May 02 2008   Hits: 68)

Land struggles [pdf]

This paper is intended to highlight a selection of local perspectives on the root causes of land loss in Cambodia, the Philippines and Brazil. (Focus on the Global South, October 2007)

http://www.landaction.org/spip/IMG/pdf/LandStruggles_f10_color.pdf

(Added: Tue Apr 15 2008   Hits: 69)

High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy

This High Level FAO Conference is to take place 3 - 5 June 2008. It will be informed by work undertaken and findings which emerge from the expert meetings and stakeholder consultations. (Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), April 2008)

http://www.fao.org/foodclimate/

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The Gilgel Gibe affair: an analysis of the Gilbel Gibe hydroelectric projects in Ethiopia [pdf]

The study illustrates the dangers that accompany large energy infrastructure projects whenever the interests of a major private company coincide not only with weak governance in the host country but also very clear willingness from financial institutions to provide funding, in spite of alarming project oversights and impacts. The study shows how goals to eradicate poverty and support local communities can be easily compromised when major corporations and/or political elites are intent on maximising profits (Bank Watch, 28 February 2008).

http://bankwatch.org/documents/gibe_study.pdf

(Added: Fri Apr 04 2008   Hits: 34)

Facilitating whose power? IFI policy influence in Nigeria's energy sector [pdf]

Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the World Bank's energy portfolio still fails to reap the double dividend of renewable energy technologies that would tackle both energy poverty and climate change. Nigerian economic policies shaped by the World Bank and IMF have so far led to a dysfunctional electricity privatisation process, a heavy and as yet unfulfilled reliance on reform of the gas sector, and the failure to make any widespread progress on energy poverty and renewable energy.

http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/update/60/bwupdt60_ai.pdf

(Added: Thu Apr 03 2008   Modified: Fri Apr 18 2008   Hits: 22)