Approximately 80% of Cambodians live in rural areas with limited access to clean and affordable water and energy. Furthermore, 34% of the rural population lives below the national poverty line on less than $0.60 per day. Many of these…
In 1998, the Mayor of Bogota launched a long-term urban mobility plan as part of an urban renewal strategy. It consisted of measures that would restrict private automobiles, promote non-motorized transportation, and improve…
ESMAP. 2009. Good Practices in City Energy Efficiency: Lviv, Ukraine - Energy Management Systems in Public Buildings. ESMAP Energy Efficient Cities Initiative. Washington, DC: World Bank.
More than 11,500 street lights (standard fluorescent, mercury vapor, sodium vapor) were replaced with efficient, T5 fluorescent tube lamps as part of the energy efficient street lighting project by Akola Municipal Corporation (AMC), an…
The city of Tianjin, China, implemented a project to recover landfill gas (LFG), which was otherwise released into the atmosphere, and burn pretreated LFG for electricity generation. The project was located at the Shuangkuo…
After a series of studies on the stove heating practices and preferences in ger households, it was concluded that it is possible to develop a program aiming to provide cleaner, affordable heating to ger areas in Ulaanbaatar, but there…
