SENER, Mexico’s Ministry of Energy, is rolling out a national municipal energy efficiency program with the help of the World Bank. The program will work with city institutions to systematically integrate energy efficiency into policymaking…
From 1980 to 2010, while Chinaâs economy increased 18-fold, energy consumption increased only 5-fold. Energy intensity per unit of GDP declined by about 70 percent. An ESMAP-supported knowledge exchange in Beijing brought Asian countries…
The Mexican government is rolling out a national municipal energy efficiency program with the help of the World Bank. As a first step, SENER, Mexico's Ministry of Energy, is launching diagnostics of energy use in 30 Mexican cities based on…
The Community-Led Sustainable Forest Management Program has increased the incomes of rural women in Senegal, who can now produce and use bio-gas, and bring clean-burning cook stoves into their homes, improving their health and quality of…
China has set an ambitious target of reducing carbon intensity by at least 40 percent from the 2005 level by 2020. The city of Shenzhen, long a symbol of China’s economic boom, is now at the leading edge of this national effort, with the…
July 3 2014
Issue | July - August 2014
Mexico kicks off a nationwide urban energy efficiency program building on ESMAP pilots; bringing electricity to urban poor communities in Kenya; learning from Chinaâs energy efficiency experience; emerging economies discuss opening up…