Geothermal energy is a unique renewable resource with potential to contribute a significant share of low cost electricity supply in several countries. It is produced by exploiting the natural heat of underground water in deep reservoirs (1…
The Guidelines to Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment (CEIA) have been prepared within the scope of a CEIA technical assistance study (CEIA study) supported by the World Bank. The CEIA study was developed based on the need to assess…
The FY12 annual report celebrates a new ASTAE business plan for fiscal 2012–15. The plan marks ASTAE’s first multidonor trust fund and welcomes the increased participation of colleagues from the South Asia Region. With its strong…
Twenty million people (about half of Central America´s population) cook primarily with biomass using open fires or rudimentary stoves. Approximately 86 percent of the biomass users are concentrated in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua,…
