COUNTRY STUDIES
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Brazil Low Carbon Country Case Study
This briefing note provides an overview of the Brazil Low Carbon Country Case Study. It discusses opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while fostering economic development in Brazil and enabling conditions for low carbon development in key greenhouse gas emitting economic sectors.
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Energy Intensive Sectors of the Indian Economy: Path to Low Carbon Development
This overview highlights the main findings of Energy Intensive Sectors of the Indian Economy: Path to Low Carbon Development, a study specifically requested by the Government of India to help identify low carbon growth opportunities for India and contribute to global climate change mitigation.
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Low-Carbon Development for Mexico
This briefing note highlights the main findings of Low-Carbon Development Study for Mexico. It includes a discussion of Mexico’s development goals and priorities to 2030, greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities, and the additional costs and benefits of lower carbon growth.
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Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy in Poland
The study poses the question of how Poland, an European Union member state, and an industrialized “Annex 1” country for the purposes of international climate discussions, can successfully transition to a low carbon economy as successfully as it underwent a transition to a market economy in the early 1990s.
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Best Practices for Market-Based Power Rationing: Implications for South Africa
This briefing note captures lessons from international experience in dealing with power shortages including key options and issues for implementing a PCP in South Africa. This work was implemented in support of South Africa’s Long Term Mitigation Scenarios and has helped highlight many of the critical challenges facing the country in its efforts to reduce its energy intensity and mobilize cleaner energy sources.
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Implementing Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management: South Africa’s Standard Offer Model
Standard Offer is the mirror image of a feed-in-tariff mechanism used to procure supply side, renewable resources. Under this approach, the Buyer offers pre-determined tariffs for delivery of energy efficiency resources from different technologies. It is different from demand side bidding where demand resources compete on price.
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BACKGROUND
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Low Carbon Growth Country Studies—Getting Started: Experience from Six Countries
This briefing note provides a framework, and discusses the steps, to perform a comprehensive assessment of greenhouse gas mitigation options. The note draws on experiences garnered during the course of the ESMAP low carbon studies in six countries – Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa. |
