China has set an ambitious target of reducing carbon intensity by at least 40 percent from the 2005 level by 2020. The city of Shenzhen, long a symbol of China’s economic boom, is now at the leading edge of this national effort, with the…
July 3 2014
Issue | July - August 2014
Mexico kicks off a nationwide urban energy efficiency program building on ESMAP pilots; bringing electricity to urban poor communities in Kenya; learning from Chinaâs energy efficiency experience; emerging economies discuss opening up…
This Business Plan sets out ESMAP’s objectives, priorities, strategies, and resource requirements for FY2014‐16 (i.e., July 2013 to June 2016). It draws on experience gained in implementing the previous Business Plan (ESMAP Strategic…
This report highlights some of the most important challenges for small-scale hydropower development in Vietnam, based on case studies of six river basins in northern Vietnam. It is the result of collaboration between the World Bank and the…
The key findings and results of the project’s first phase, as summarized in this report, were presented in June 2013 at a regional workshop in Vienna at which stakeholder delegations from all six Western Balkan countries were represented…
Beijing and Xi’an, China, June 27, 2014 – China has successfully decoupled energy consumption and emissions from economic growth. From 1980 to 2010, while China’s economy increased 18-fold, energy consumption increased only 5-…
