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The European Union Energy Initiative for poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development - a partnership initiative
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
The EU Energy initiative is an attempt to create a focus on better access to sustainable energy services fot the more than two billion 'energy poor' of our planet. Actions will be driven...
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Scaling up energy access through cross-sector partnerships
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
The aim of this report is to provide information and offer new perspectives in addressing the energy access challenge through cross-sector collaboration on rural mini-grids. The goal is...
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Tonga Joint National Action Plan on Climate change Adaptation and Disaster risk Management 2010 - 2015
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
Tonga like the other fifty one Small Island Developing States is highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change and disaster risks. Its susceptibility is principally due to its...
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The gold Standard Manual for CDM Projects Developers Version 3; Mai 2006
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This Gold Standard Project Developer’s manual refers to The Gold Standard Project Design Document for CDM Projects (GS-PDD) and to The Gold Standard Project Design Document for SmallScale...
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Guide on gender mainstreaming: Energy and Climate change Projects
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This Guide is part of an organization-wide initiative to mainstream gender into all of UNIDO’s technical cooperation projects and programmes. Karen Cadondon, Eliana Gutiérrez-Amo and Liv...
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Sustainable energy policy: Report on an advisory Mission to the Pacific Islands
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
In July 2001, ESCAP advised island governments and PROs, that ESCAP intended to send a mission to the Pacific Region and would entertain requests for specific technical assistance related...
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Replacing Fuel Based Lighting with Light Emitting Diodes in Developing Countries: Energy and Lighting in Rural Nepali Homes
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
More than one quarter of the world’s population, who does not have access to electric light, live in the developing countries. Nepal is one of these countries, where the people in the...
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Nauru Energy sector overview
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
The aim of this report is to provide a stock take of the situations in the energy sector of Nauru and therefore inform a baseline which can be used in the development of the Nauru Energy...
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Energy and gender Issues in Rural Sustainable Development
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
FAO is looking at ways in which increased attention to energy and gender linkages can help countries promote sustainable agricultural production and rural development, as well as work...
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Pacific Islands Framework for Action on Climate Change 2006-2015
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
In order to seek further concrete actions at the national, regional and international levels, the PICTs have developed this action plan to implement the Pacific Islands Framework for...
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Road Map Towards the Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration 2001
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
The road map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration contains an integrated and comprehensive overview of the current situation. It outlines potential...
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Technology Transfer issues in Environmental Goods and services: An illustrative Analysis of sectors Relevant to Air-pollution and Renewable Energy
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This paper argues, on the basis of empirical evidence and the conceptual evolution over the years of what constitutes technology transfer, that much can be done within Environmental Goods...
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Increasing the Participation of Women Entrepreneurs in the Solomon Islands Aid Economy
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
The World Bank undertook this study to explore the scope for, and potential impacts of, increasing the local economic impact of aid through increased local spending by donors. More...
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The Cook Islands Initial National Communication Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
The preparation of the Cook Islands Initial National Communication was funded by the Global Environment Fund Climate Change Enabling Activity through the Pacific Islands Climate Change...
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Energizing the Millennium Development Goals: A Guide to Energy's Role in Reducing Poverty
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
In September 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit,world leaders agreed to a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, illiteracy, gender...
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Clean Development Mechanism PDD Guidebook: Navigating the Pitfalls
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
The Capacity Development for CDM (CD4CDM) Project decided to capitalize on the lessons learned by this validation process and has collaborated with Det Norske Veritas (DNV), an accredited...
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Baseline Methodologies for Clean Development Mechanism Projects: A Guidebook
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This guidebook is produced by the UNEP Risø Center (URC), Denmark, as a part of the project titled Capacity Development for the CDM (CD4CDM), which is being implemented by URC for United...
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Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This document presents the latest data on our current and prospective use of energy while also exploring the innovations in technology, finance and governance that can set the region on a...
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Facilitating Disaster Relief Operations and Sustainable Reconstruction: The Enabling Role of Renewable Energy Technologies
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
The impetus for developing this guide came from the enormity of the Asian Tsunami disaster in 2004-2005 right on Australia's doorstep, and the inability of the renewable energy community...
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Millennium Development Goals: Fiji National Report
SPC Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) Publications
This Report, provides the status of Fiji’s implementation as regards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The MDG Report has been prepared in the context of the Strategic Development...