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The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis that has major implications for world economies, energy use and CO2 emissions. According to the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2020 report, the immediate effects of the pandemic on the energy system shows expected falls in 2020 of 5% in global energy demand, 7% in energy-related CO2 emissions and 18% in energy investment. Oil consumption is anticipated to decline by 8% and coal use by 7%. However, as with previous crises, the rebound in emissions may be larger than the decline, unless the wave of investments to restart economies is dedicated to cleaner and more resilient energy infrastructure. Decarbonizing energy use in time to avert catastrophic climate change requires increased international cooperation. Recovery measures following COVID-19 pandemic could include flexible power grids, efficiency solutions, electric vehicle charging, energy storage, interconnected hydropower, green hydrogen and other technology investments consistent with long-term energy and climate sustainability.
In line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a global movement to address these challenges by substantially increasing investment in renewable energy technologies and implementation, doubling the rate of improvement to energy efficiency, and changing user behaviours, with the aim to achieve absolute decoupling between energy consumption and economic growth.
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There’s been a resurgence in the old-fashioned technique of burning wood to produce energy. [But] the idea that setting trees on fire could be carbon-neutral sounds even odder to experts who know that biomass emits more carbon than coal at the smokestack, plus the carbon released by logging, processing logs into vitamin-sized pellets and transporting them overseas. And solar panels can produce 100 times as much power per acre as biomass.
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ESMAP launches its first clean cooking interactive e-course
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Our paper on the AERI - Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index has just been made public: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.2698. AERI is an environmental ranking of 120 oil, gas, and mining companies that extract natural resources in the Arctic. The ranking was put together by an international team of 10 researchers from Canada, Finland, Greece, Norway, Russia, the UK, and Uzbekistan, drawing on the input of 173 experts based in 17 countries. The purpose of the index is to promote “a race to the top” among extractive companies and across the seven different Arctic jurisdictions by encouraging competition among companies on environmental protection. We therefore hope that the index will be spread as widely as possible.
INTRODUCING ELECTRICITY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY PLATFORMS IN RURAL UGANDA: A CASE STUDY ON LAKE BUNYONYI
COST INDEX AND FUEL TANKERING POLICY OF THE AIRLINES IN INDONESIA
A 2015 inventory of embodied carbon emissions for Chinese power transmission infrastructure projects.