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Ceres Conference 2016
Energy Efficiency Global Forum 2016
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The Energy Efficiency Global Forum - EE Global - is an invitation-only opportunity to join hundreds of executives and policymakers from across sectors, disciplines, and borders. The energy efficiency elite will convene in Washington, D.C. for two days, 11-12 May 2016, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, with a goal of advancing the productivity and profitability of energy efficiency.
International Development Design Summit for Cookstoves
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Our partner, The Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s D-Lab, the Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC), and the Centre for Integrated Research and Community Development Uganda (CIRCODU) to organize this Design Summit. IDDS Cookstoves will be an intense, hands-on design experience to co-create and improve technologies to address the health and environment challenges faced by the three billion people who cook food with traditional cookstove
13th Annual AREDAY Summit “From Paris to the Polls: Implementing Low Carbon Economies”
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AREDAY - the American Renewable Energy Day - it's an Annual Summit from the American Renewable Energy Institute that brings together over 100 cross-sector speakers that results in investments, collaborations, strategic alliances and new initiatives, and it also includes a film festival, a concert and an environmental expo. This year event will take place at Snowmass Village, Colorado, on 19-24 June 2016.
For more information visit: http://www.areday.net/
2016 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank
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The 2016 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank will take place from Monday, May 23 to Friday, May 27, 2016 at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. The theme of this year’s meetings is “Energy and Climate Change”, and draws on one of the Bank’s “High 5” priority areas, namely to “Light up and Power Africa”.
13th Green Film Festival in Seoul
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Running for 13 years, the Green Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea, seeks to share the hope for a better world where all the lives can live in harmony with environment and nature. Through cinema, the festival hopes to promote ideas of environmental protection and life respect to encourage public awareness and action for positive changes. The 13th edition happens on 6-12 May 2016 in Seoul, South Korea.
This is the story of how one major global development institution, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), recognized and responded to the challenge of climate change, and was itself transformed in the experience. Addressing climate change affected IFC at every organizational level, from high-level policy issues such as the role to take in supporting the use of fossil fuel, to highly technical and operational issues, such as tracking greenhouse gas emissions, and evaluating investments while taking into account
The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) and the World Bank have agreed to carry out a Climate Change Assessment (CCA) within the framework of the Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Nigeria (2010-13). The CCA includes an analysis of options for low-carbon development in selected sectors, including power, oil and gas, transport, and agriculture.
According to the United Nations population fund, the world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history, with more people now living in cities than in rural areas. Cities are also responsible for a high proportion of global carbon emissions, which are the main driver of anthropogenic climate change. By taking the lead on low carbon development, cities have the opportunity to engage in an important dialogue about sustainable development, directly address local issues, and contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
This report 'Turning the right corner - ensuring development through a low carbon transport sector' emphasizes that developing countries need to transition to a low carbon transport sector now to avoid locking themselves into an unsustainable and costly future. Furthermore, it argues that this transition can be affordable if countries combine policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with broader sector reforms aimed at reducing local air pollution, road safety risks, and congestion.
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