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Taxes vs Permits: Options for Price-Based Climate Change Regulation
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This paper provides an overview of key issues involved in the choice among marketbased instruments for climate change policy. Specifically, it examines the potential net benefits from...
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Scaling Up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
More than half of households in Honduras use cook stoves that are highly inefficient, unhealthy and unsafe, impacting the health and well-being of users and families as well as the...
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Wave Powered Desalination by Reverse Osmosis- A Feasibility Study
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
The purpose of this thesis is to study the feasibility of wave powered desalination: what areas would be potential for wave powered desalination and how much the produced water would...
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Site and Storage Conditions for Class 3.1 Flammable Liquids
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This document sets out the site and storage conditions for class 3.1 flammable liquids. These substances may also have toxic, corrosive and/or ecotoxic properties (HSNO classes 6, 8...
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What Makes People Cook with Improved Biomass Stoves? A Comparative International Review of Stove Programs
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This report summarizes a large-scale evaluation of improved-stove programs funded by the United Nations Development Programme, managed by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme...
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Scaling Up Demand-Side Energy Efficiency Improvements through Programmatic CDM
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
Improving energy efficiency (EE) is one of the most promising approaches for achieving cost-effective global greenhouse gases (GHG) reductions. However, it is severely underrepresented in...
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50 Ways to End Kerosene Lighting
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This guide aims to show many different technologies that can be used to eliminate kerosene lighting from households in developing countries. 1.6 billion people in approximately 300...
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The Impact of Higher Oil Prices on Low Income Countries and on the Poor
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This paper was commissioned by ESMAP as part of an investigation on energy security issues from the perspective of developing countries, starting with a literature review and a concept...
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Living with High Prices: A Policy Brief
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This policy brief has been prepared by the Asian Development Bank to help the region manage the adjustment to high prices. The policy brief describes the situation internationally and in...
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The Challenge of Higher Oil Prices - Adjusting to higher oil prices: The challenge for developing Asia
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
Asian Development Outlook 2005 Update - This part of the Update reviews the possible consequences and challenges presented by high oil prices for developing Asia. After a brief review of...
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Solar Photovoltaic Systems Technical Training Manual
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
Developing countries face an overall situation of limited energy resources and applications, particularly in rural areas, and there is an urgent need to address this situation. Limited...
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Renewable Energy in Remote Australian Communities (A Market Survey): Final Report
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This report presents the results of one of the most extensive field market surveys detailing the use of renewable energy systems in remote area power supplies (RAPS) in Australia. 134...
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Papua New Guinea National Energy Policy 2017 - 2027
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
Executive Summary Energy is the engine of economic growth. Therefore the Government recognises the need to manage the energy sector in a manner that is efficient and sustainable....
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BIOFUELS: IS THE CURE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE?
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This document is prepared on the responsibility of the Chair of the Round Table on Sustainable Development at the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not...
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Pacific Community Financial Statements for 2016
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
Anon. 2017. Pacific Community Financial Statements for 2016. Noumea, New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). 57 p. https://purl.org/spc/digilib/doc/iy4w8
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Communauté du Pacifique : états financiers 2016
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
Communauté du Pacifique : états financiers 2016. Noumea, New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). 61 p. https://purl.org/spc/digilib/doc/2xb68
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Pacific Community Financial Statements for 2016
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
Pacific Community Financial Statements for 2016. Noumea, New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). 2 p. https://purl.org/spc/digilib/doc/v3xzn
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Climatic Study For Tonga Comparison Of Different Wind And Wave Data
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This report is part of the climatic study for Tonga, and describes the comparison of wind and wave data available for Tonga area. The climatic study in the SOPAC region is part of the...
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Wind Resource Assessment on Kiritimati Island
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
Wind resource assessment in Kiribati - Kiritimati Island.
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Fiji Islands Transport Data
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
Fiji Islands transport data. Data collected by Mr Herbet Wade, consultant for the SPREP PIGGAREP Project. Record holds several attachments. The objective of this project is to assess what...