low carbon energy Articles
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A roadmap for a secure, low-carbon energy economy
This “roadmap” presents the results of a year-long effort by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and WRI to identify a set of policies to address energy security and climate change simultaneously. At first glance, improving energy security and addressing climate change may seem irreconcilable goals: achieve an adequate, reliable, and affordable energy supply for the United ...
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An introduction to ecosystem services
Providing resources to support a growing world population, whilst protecting the environment on which we depend, is a major challenge in the 21st century. The ecosystem services approach is proposed as a key tool in meeting this challenge. This briefing note provides a short introduction to the application of the ecosystem services approach in enabling the sustainable transformation to a ...
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Managing the transition to a secure, low-carbon energy future
In the years to come, the world must meet the energy needs of a growing and developing world population while mitigating the impacts of global climate change. This policy brief seeks to establish a framework for considering the complex and evolving links between energy security and climate change, and identifies three challenges: the evolving and interconnected nature of energy security and ...
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Investing in a Low-Carbon Energy Future in the Developing World
The need to address climate change while facilitating continued economic growth and social progress is one of the key challenges facing world leaders today. Energy is critical to continued economic growth and according to the International Energy Agency (IEA); population growth and increasing industrialization will drive demand for energy upwards by more than 50% between now and 2030. Fossil ...
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Mobilizing Climate Investment: The role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up, low-carbon energy
Between now and 2050, developing countries need an estimated $531 billion per year of additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies in order to limit global temperature rise to 2° C above pre-industrial levels. To achieve this scale of investment, developing country governments and custodians of international public finance will need to deploy limited public finance in ways ...
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Enhancing the role of the CDM in accelerating low-carbon technology transfers to developing countries
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in its present form concentrates on single projects, mostly in isolation of the host country’s national and technological context. CDM project patterns largely follow those of foreign direct investments, resulting in a relatively large share of rapidly industrialising developing countries in the CDM project pipeline. This paper suggests that the CDM position ...
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Climate change and a European low-carbon energy system
Summary This report presents an assessment of possible greenhouse gas emission reduction pathways made feasible by global action and a transition to a low-carbon energy system in Europe by 2030. It analyses trends and projections for emissions of greenhouse gases and the development of underlying trends in the energy sector. It also describes the actions ...
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Mayor announces London’s low-carbon zones
Boris Johnson today announced areas to trial low-carbon zones in the capital, reports Envido. The Mayor of London unveiled today the capital's first 10 'low-carbon zones', which are to receive more than £200,000 to fund low-carbon zones that include installing rooftop solar panels, electric car recharging points and introducing “low-carbon zone energy doctors”. Johnson announced that ...
By Vital Energi
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Lightsource BP to accelerate global solar growth with further investment from BP
The management of Lightsource BP and BP have agreed to equalise their shareholdings in Lightsource BP to create a simplified 50:50 joint venture structure. As part of the transaction, BP will purchase newly-issued equity in the business to help accelerate Lightsource BP’s growth, supporting its ambitious drive towards 10GW of developed assets by the end of 2023. In December 2017, BP ...
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American energy security and innovation: An assessment of North America`s energy resources
Our energy choices need to factor in both opportunities and risks. This testimony gives particular attention to why we must consider the risk of climate change, both on our resources being developed and utilized today and on our choices for development into the future. It concludes with the following recommendations: Congress should request that the National Climate Assessment and Development ...
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The Chemical Route to a Carbon Dioxide Neutral World
Excessive CO2 emissions in the atmosphere from anthropogenic activity can be divided into point sources and diffuse sources. The capture of CO2 from flue gases of large industrial installations and its conversion into fuels and chemicals with fast catalytic processes seems technically possible. Some emerging technologies are already being demonstrated on an industrial scale. Others are still ...
By SusChem
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The bottom line on international trade & climate policy
By encouraging clean technology deployment and imposing new costs on commonly traded commodities, climate policy would have significant impacts on international trade flows. This document answers basic questions about climate policy and its implications for the international trade of goods. How will climate policy impact American trade competitiveness? Over the coming decade, countries around ...
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Villa Nursery - AMP Clean Energy - Case Study
Clean energy supporting sustainable growth of award-winning British produce A wide-ranging low carbon energy solution is helping support the growth of British salads, tomatoes and speciality peppers sustainably over the next 20 years. A 1.65-megawatt steam generating biomass CHP plant, a 1MW biomass heat boiler and a 3MW reserve gas peaking engine, supply the heat and electricity needed to ...
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Why it`s time to get serious about wave power
For most of us power from the sea means watching waves crashing on a beach or smashing up against a breakwater. But if you want to experience wave power at its most energetic then you need to be offshore. In fact you need to be over one hundred kilometres offshore. In February 2000, a British oceanographic research vessel sailing in the Rockall Trough, some 180Km from land, encountered the ...
By Carbon Trust
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AGR 217,000m² Glasshouse and Energy Centre with 33MWth Heat Pump System and 9MW Combined Heat and Power Plant - Case Study
AGR is a leading renewable energy company specialising in low carbon energy generation, with over £350m of projects delivered to date in the UK, including a portfolio of gas peaking and combined heat and power (CHP) projects. AGR developed and is the main EPC contractor for a new 217,000m² glasshouse and energy centre in Cambridgeshire and has sold the project to funds managed by ...
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Neste Publishes “4 Reasons Why The World Needs Biofuels”
On July 12, 2016, Neste, a BRAG member, published "4 Reasons Why The World Needs Biofuels," highlighting the positive results of seeking alternative, low-carbon sources of renewable energy. The article mentions that "biofuels offer a solution to reduce carbon emissions of traffic when other solutions, such as switching to electric vehicles, is not an option due to high vehicle costs or lack of ...
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Energy in Sudan
Sudan is an agricultural country with fertile land, plenty of water resources, livestock, forestry resources, and agricultural residues. An overview of the energy situation in Sudan is introduced with reference to the end uses and regional distribution. Energy sources are divided into two main types: conventional energy (biomass, petroleum products, and electricity); and non-conventional energy ...
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Power failures: metagoverning a revival of nuclear power in Britain
The British Government is attempting, through metagovernance, to encourage a transition to a low carbon electricity generation industry by promoting a revival of nuclear power. This paper considers the barriers that the British Government might encounter by analysing its metagovernance efforts within the context of a dynamic, co-evolving socio-technical regime. It is shown that the British ...
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Project ColdSpark - A novel approach to sustainable hydrogen production
Project period: 2022-2025 COLDSPARK® is a Research and Innovation project (Grant agreement No. 101069931) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme. The 42-month project, launched in June 2022, will validate a non-thermal plasma technology to produce hydrogen at an industrial scale from natural gas or biomethane, contributing to the global ...
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Why businesses should spur governments to realise carbon-related opportunities
Companies should engage government and lobby for regulation to speed up the development of low carbon solutions. On the way up to the Cancun Summit, the world’s largest organizations are reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) that they see "significant" opportunities related to climate change, and that carbon is increasingly becoming a strategic management priority. Governments ...
By Vital Energi
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