SENER, Mexico’s Ministry of Energy, is rolling out a national municipal energy efficiency program with the help of the World Bank. The program will work with city institutions to systematically integrate energy efficiency into policymaking…
From 1980 to 2010, while Chinaâs economy increased 18-fold, energy consumption increased only 5-fold. Energy intensity per unit of GDP declined by about 70 percent. An ESMAP-supported knowledge exchange in Beijing brought Asian countries…
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…
Energy supply in Western Balkan countries is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels, costing over $4.1 billion in 2012. With demand for energy in the six countries of the Western Balkans expected to increase by as much as 70 percent in…
Two decades after the liberalization of India's economy and a decade after the passage of the Electricity Act of 2003, what is the state of India's power sector? A new ESMAP-supported report assesses progress in implementing the…
