Cases on Green Energy and Sustainable Development
Cases on Green Energy and Sustainable Development

Author: Yang, Peter

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-07-26

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 1522585613

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Despite the urgent need for action, there is a widespread lack of understanding of the benefits of using green energy sources for not only reducing carbon emissions and climate change, but also for growing a sustainable economy and society. Future citizens of the world face increasing sustainability issues and need to be better prepared for energy transformation and sustainable future economic development. Cases on Green Energy and Sustainable Development is a critical research book that focuses on the important role renewable energy and energy efficiency play in energy transition and sustainable development and covers economic and promotion policies of major renewable energy and energy-efficiency technologies. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as economics, energy storage, and transportation technologies, this book is ideal for environmentalists, academicians, researchers, engineers, policymakers, and students.

Scaling up SDGs Implementation
Scaling up SDGs Implementation

Author: Godwell Nhamo

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 3030332160

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This volume challenges global leaders and citizenry to do more in order to resource the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) and its 17 interwoven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Starting from the concept ‘we cannot manage what we cannot measure’, the book presents some cases showing how to draw national level baselines for the domestication and localisation of the SDGs seeking to provide a clear roadmap towards achieving the 2030 AfSD. Scaling up SDGs Implementation is targeted at the United Nations, national and state governments, sub-national governments, the corporate sector and civil society, including higher education institutes, labour groups, non-governmental organisations and youth movements. The book is cognizant of these institutions’ common, but differentiated responsibilities and capabilities within their socio-political, environmental and economic conditions. The book presents case studies of how the corporate sector has been scaling up SDGs implementation, from the tourism sector, insurance, to the aviation and agricultural sectors. To make sure that no one is left behind, the volume includes cases on solutions for pressing environmental and socio-economic problems ranging from cooperatives in Brazil to the conservation of springs in Zimbabwe. The matter of finding synergies between the climate SDG and the Paris Agreement’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) is elaborated at length. Lastly, the book discusses how institutions of higher education remain critical pillars in SDGs scaling up, with cases of curriculum re-orientation in South Africa to the rolling out of the Women’s University in Africa. In this context, this volume challenges every global citizen and organization to invest every effort into making the implementation of the SDGs a success as we welcome the second four to five year segment down the road to the year 2030.

Energy Access, Poverty, and Development
Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

Author: Benjamin K. Sovacool

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1317143736

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This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the most interesting renewable energy case studies over the last ten years from one of the most diverse regions in the world. Through an in-depth exploration of case studies in Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka, the authors highlight the applicability of different approaches and technologies and illuminates how household and commercial innovations occur (or fail to occur) within particular energy governance regimes. It also, uniquely, explores successful case studies alongside failures or "worst practice" examples that are often just as revealing as those that met their targets. Based on these successes and failures, the book presents twelve salient lessons for policymakers and practitioners wishing to expand energy access and raise standards of living in some of the world's poorest communities. It also develops an innovative framework consisting of 42 distinct factors that explain why some energy development interventions accomplish all of their goals while others languish to achieve any.

Transmission Expansion for Renewable Energy Scale-Up
Transmission Expansion for Renewable Energy Scale-Up

Author: Marcelino Madrigal

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2012-06-29

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 082139598X

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In their efforts to increase the share of renewable in electricity grids to reducing emissions or increasing energy diversity, developed and developing countries are finding that a considerable scale-up of investments in transmission infrastructures will be necessary to achieve their goals. Renewable energy resources such as wind, solar, and hydro power, tend to be sited far from existing electricity grids and consumption centers. Achieving desired supply levels from these sources requires that networks be expanded to reach many sites and to ensuring the different supply variation patterns of renewable are combined with existing sources in the grid to ensure the constantly varying demand for electricity is always met. Expanding networks will be crucial to achieve renewable energy objectives efficiency and effectively. Efficiency is important to ensure renewable energy goals are achieved at the lowest cost while considering needed investment in transmission. Besides the cost of transmission, which is often worth, transmission needs be planned and built in such a way that the many sites being taped are connected in a timely fashion. The challenges of ensuring efficiency and efficacy in developing transmission for renewable become surmountable if the right planning and regulatory framework for expanding transmission are put in place. This report reviews emerging approaches being undertaken by transmission utilities and regulators to solve to cope with these challenges of expanding transmission for renewable energy scale-up. Proactively planning and regulating transmission networks are emerging as the premier approach to ensure that transmission networks are expanded efficiently and effectively. Linking planning with clear and stable cost-recovery regulation can also help bringing the private sector to complement the considerable investment needs in transmission. Based on the evolving experience and on established theory and practice on transmission regulation, the report also proposes some principles that could be useful to implement specific rules for the planning, development, and pricing of transmission networks.

Achieving Universal Electricity Access in Indonesia
Achieving Universal Electricity Access in Indonesia

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 9292572695

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Indonesia has achieved an impressive 84% electrification ratio, but faces significant challenges in reaching the remaining 16% of its households. This report describes Indonesia’s electrification environment and identifies barriers to achieving universal electricity access. Principles drawn from international best practices such as government commitment, enabling institutional environments, adequate and sustainable financing, and stakeholder coordination are discussed in the context of Indonesia’s energy sector. The report gives recommendations for establishing service standards, streamlining financing, setting appropriate targets, and monitoring and evaluation, as well as near-term steps to help achieve universal electricity access.

Environment Program
Environment Program

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 929254778X

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This publication presents a snapshot of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) environmental strategies, programs, initiatives, partnerships, and a range of activities that demonstrate ADB's commitment to support environmentally sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific---a strategic agenda of ADB's Strategy 2020. The report highlights innovations designed in selected ADB-supported projects with environmental sustainability as a theme that were approved in 2008–2010. It also discusses the emerging environmental challenges in the region, and previews ADB's strategies to strengthen its operational emphasis on the environment, including climate change, that would help realize green growth in Asia and the Pacific.

SDG7 - Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable, and Modern Energy
SDG7 - Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable, and Modern Energy

Author: Godwell Nhamo

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2020-08-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1789737990

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SDG7 visualizes a world in which energy is universally accessible, efficient and renewable in order to create sustainable, inclusive and resilient communities. This book explores the implementation challenges of SDG7, offers potential solutions, and maps out a way in which global energy systems might be transformed.

National oxygen scale-up framework - Road to oxygen access
National oxygen scale-up framework - Road to oxygen access

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2024-10-31

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 9240100776

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From 14-16 May 2024, WHO convened 133 participants from 64 Member States and 69 partners at the National Oxygen Scale-Up Framework Meeting in Dakar, Senegal. The objective of this meeting was to co-develop, with all attendees, a template for planning and costing national oxygen scale-up strategies which could then be used by Member States to strengthen their national medical oxygen ecosystems, a key operative of WHA76.3 Increasing access to medical oxygen. During the meeting, participants engaged in knowledge exchange, highlighting best-practice and lessons learned from current national scale-up efforts via plenary sessions and breakout group discussions. Topics covered were partnerships, needs identification, sustainable financing, measuring impact and outcomes, workforce planning, and integration with health programmes and across relevant sectors. Additionally, participants had the opportunity to share their own oxygen scale-up experiences via a poster showcase. To reach the objective, participants were invited to vote on the necessary components of a previously developed zero-draft oxygen scale-up template using a modified Delphi methodology. Through two rounds of voting, consensus was reached on necessary components with one significant modification and the addition of 6 new items. This report summarizes the three day meeting and includes all associated materials.

Global Energy Assessment
Global Energy Assessment

Author: Thomas B. Johansson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-27

Total Pages: 1885

ISBN-13: 052118293X

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Independent, scientifically based, integrated, policy-relevant analysis of current and emerging energy issues for specialists and policymakers in academia, industry, government.

Hybrid Power
Hybrid Power

Author: Yatish T. Shah

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 1000328570

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Hybrid energy systems integrate multiple sources of power generation, storage, and transport mechanisms and can facilitate increased usage of cleaner, renewable, and more efficient energy sources. Hybrid Power: Generation, Storage, and Grids discusses hybrid energy systems from fundamentals through applications and discusses generation, storage, and grids. Highlights fundamentals and applications of hybrid energy storage Discusses use in hybrid and electric vehicles and home energy needs Discusses issues related to hybrid renewable energy systems connected to the utility grid Describes the usefulness of hybrid microgrids and various forms of off-grid energy such as mini-grids, nanogrids, and stand-alone systems Covers the use of hybrid renewable energy systems for rural electrification around the world Discusses various forms and applications of hybrid energy systems, hybrid energy storage, hybrid microgrids, and hybrid off-grid energy systems Details simulation and optimization of hybrid renewable energy systems This book is aimed at advanced students and researchers in academia, government, and industry, seeking a comprehensive overview of the basics, technologies, and applications of hybrid energy systems.