Most future growth in energy use is forecast to come from the developing world. Understanding the likely pace and specific location of this growth is essential to inform decisions about energy infrastructure investments and to improve greenhouse gas emissions forecasts
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Tags: Developing Countries, energy demand, energy use, GDP, growth, poverty
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In a world where the prospects of a global agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions are bleak, the idea of using trade policy as an implicit regulation of foreign emission sources has gained many supporters in countries contemplating unilateral climate policies...
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Tags: Climate Policy, Developing Countries, embodied carbon tariffs, general equilibrium model, scenario, trade
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In this working paper, six developing countries with possible domestic ETS are analysed : Brazil, China, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and South Korea.
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Tags: Developing Countries, Emissions Trading System
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The authors offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time...
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Tags: Cancun, climate, Concentrations, cooperation, Copenhagen, costs, Developing Countries, Development, Emissions, equity, Global Climate, global warming, greenhouse gas, Human Development, International, Kyoto, Sustainable, Treaty, United Nations, WITCH
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This WRI's report makes the business case for private sector adaptation to climate change in ways that build the resilience of vulnerable communities in developing countries
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Tags: Adaptation, climate change, Developing Countries, resilience
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The objective of this ESMAP's paper is to shed some light on the benefits of improved access to electricity supply, specifically the benefits referred to as, 'consumer's surplus', which is the difference between what customers are willing to pay for the utilities associated with electricity access and the price that they actually pay.
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Tags: Developing Countries, electrification, energy access, poverty
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The twenty thematic chapters in this book provide a broad set of perspectives on the plight, possibilities and opportunities of urban transport in the developing world, set against the challenges of sustainable development
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Tags: city, Developing Countries, urban transport
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Compilation of information on nationally appropriate mitigation actions to be implemented by Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention
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Tags: climate change, Developing Countries, Mitigation, NAMA's
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This study was prepared at the request of the Government of Norway (GoN) to support its new climate finance initiative, Energy+. The purpose of that new endeavor is to expand use of renewable energy and energy efficiency measures to increase energy access in the least developed countries and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in...
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Tags: Developing Countries, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy
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"The study says, benefits of electrification programs in most developing countries comes from savings made by households when they switch to cheap, clean, safe and reliable electricity for lighting, entertainment and cooking instead of using expensive batteries, candles and kerosene..."
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Tags: Developing Countries, electrification
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Countries cannot develop without widespread access to reliable and affordable electricity. In the face of rising concern over global climate change, the challenge is how to source this energy sustainably...
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Tags: Developing Countries, emerging countries, energy supply, poverty, renewable energy
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An assessment of German financial support for climate-related activities in developing countries from a development policy perspective.
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Tags: Climate Finance, Developing Countries
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