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Why Saving Energy is So Hard
When most people think about energy, they see big power plants and smokestacks. What people generally do not consider is that it is much cheaper and more environmentally friendly to cut energy use than...
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Innovation Means Never Looking to Your Own Field for New Ideas
Several months ago a colleague of mine wrote about our idea to legalize thousands of informal homes in Montenegro using energy efficiency measures (or see the infographic for a visual show off the...
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Making Energy Efficiency Personal
As an economist dealing with energy efficiency on a daily basis, I have studied and written about its benefits for several countries. But it was not until recently that I got around to looking into it...
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How Fit Are Feed-In Tariff Policies?
World Bank study of Eastern Europe and Central Asian experience finds that complementary policies needed to get more renewable bang out of FiT buck. Given that the effects of energy efficiency measures...
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Energy Efficiency: Scaling Up to Cut Costs And Emissions
Energy is essential to heat homes and cook meals. It is needed to deliver proper health care in hospitals and to teach children. It is essential for economic growth and development and for powering...
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Climate Drum Roll...We Need Your Votes Now!
Our idea (UNDP Montenegro) - helping families legalize their homes using savings from energy efficiency measures - was voted as one of the finalists in the MIT ClimateCoLab crowdsourcing competition...
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Five Steps to Scale-Up Energy Efficiency
Most experts agree that energy efficiency is a critical building block for sustainable development. This is because improvements in energy efficiency strengthen a country’s energy security, increase...
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Cities act on climate change: Thoughts on the C40 Summit in Joburg
If you go to a conference on cities and climate change, you inevitably hear the statement that “countries talk…but cities act”. This message was loud and clear at the C40 Cities Climate Leadership...
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Green Bonds Market Tops $20 Billion, Expands to New Issuers, Currencies &...
Also available in Français | Español | 中文 In January, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim urged the audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos to look closely at a young, promising form of...
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Carbon Partnership Facility: Innovation in Scaling-up Emission Reductions
We’re about 16 months away from the 2015 UN climate meeting in Paris, intended to reach an ambitious global agreement on climate change. Now, more than ever, there is a need for innovation to scale up...
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Green Bonds Market Tops $20 Billion, Expands to New Issuers, Currencies &...
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Green Bonds Market Tops $20 Billion, Expands to New Issuers, Currencies &...
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Green Bonds Market Tops $20 Billion, Expands to New Issuers, Currencies &...
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Green Bonds Market Tops $20 Billion, Expands to New Issuers, Currencies &...
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Green Bonds Market Tops $20 Billion, Expands to New Issuers, Currencies &...
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Green Bonds Market Tops $20 Billion, Expands to New Issuers, Currencies &...
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Home is Where the Hearth Is
Home is where the heart is. It’s also where the hearth is. And for the three billion people around the world who cook every day using traditional fuels, the hearth has a very dark side. Dirty, smoking...
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Climate Finance: The Public Sector Can't Do This Alone
A discussion on carbon pricing at COP20 brought together executives from Unilever, pension fund AP4, and the BVRio Environmental Exchange, and officials from California, South Korea, and the World...
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Green Bonds Market Tops $20 Billion, Expands to New Issuers, Currencies &...
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Green Bonds Market Tops $20 Billion, Expands to New Issuers, Currencies &...
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