A new IMF paper urges governments the world over to reform subsidies affecting products ranging from coal to gasoline ( © IMF)
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A new IMF paper urges governments the world over to reform subsidies affecting products ranging from coal to gasoline ( © IMF)
A variety of renewable electricity policies to promote investment in wind, solar, and other types of renewable generators exist across the United States. The federal renewable energy investment tax credit, the federal renewable energy production tax credit, and state renewable portfolio standards are among the most notable. Whether the benefits of promoting new technology...
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This report, written by Fridtjof Nansen Institute for the Nordic Council of Ministers, discusses the role of state owned enterprises on the electricity and steel sectors, for instance, in upgrading technologies, centralizing operations and developing alternative energy sources
Institutional investors, which together manage assets of over $70 trillion, often have investment objectives that are aligned with the investment profile of infrastructure. At first glance, access to this large pool of capital and the alignment of objectives should help lower the costs of financing renewable energy. In this study, CPI finds that while...
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This UNDP report introduces an innovative framework to assist policymakers to quantitatively compare the impact of different public instruments to promote renewable energy.
“Despite much talk by world leaders, and despite a boom in renewable energy over the last decade, the average unit of energy produced today is basically as dirty as it was 20 years ago”, says IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven. To illustrate this inertia, this IEA report introduces the Energy Sector...
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This new report of the World Future Council provides an in-depth policy analysis of renewable energy frontrunner countries Germany, Denmark and Austria and identifies successful policy elements and instruments...
This book offers structured, comparative case studies of the development of four central climate policies: emissions trading systems, renewables, carbon capture and storage, and energy policy for buildings, examining the intriguing similarities and differences in how these have taken shape.
This World Bank's paper examines the relation between tariff setting and policy outcome based on wind capacity expansion in 35 European countries over the 1991-2010 period...
This WRI report draws on the experiences of six developing countries to examine how public climate finance can help meet the significant investment needs of developing countries by creating attractive conditions for scaled-up investment in low-carbon energy
The government has an ambitious renewables programme whose costs have been much discussed. Unfortunately, due to the polarised nature of the debate, it has not produced clarity and some basic points remain obscure – are renewables cheap or expensive?...
This IRENA working paper outlines the proposed process, and progress to date, of REMAP 2030 – IRENA’s global roadmap for policies and actions to double the share of renewable energy by 2030.
This IEA review analyses the energy-policy challenges currently facing Sweden, and provides studies and recommendations for each sector.
The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, in cooperation with the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies, has released its annual "REN21 Global Futures Report (GFR)," which presents a range of expert perspectives on possible renewable energy futures...