Clean Energy Policy News
4 December 2015
International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol and Xie Zhenhua, China’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, celebrated growing IEA-Chinese co-operation when they met on 4 December 2015 at the UN climate talks in Paris.
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3 December 2015
As countries around the world look to implement policies and programs to deploy clean energy and reduce their carbon emissions, a new collaboration will expand expert policy support to help developing countries bolster clean energy deployment.
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2 December 2015
The government of Vietnam has approved the Vietnam Renewable Energy Development Strategy to 2030, which aims prioritize renewable energy, especially biomass, biogas, wind and solar, for energy and electricity uses.
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2 December 2015
The Solutions Center is scaling up match the global need for policy assistance
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1 December 2015
The most up-to-date information on how to develop and implement quality control for renewable energy technologies is now available. A new series of reports released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) gives detailed information on how to develop quality infrastructure for small wind turbines and solar water heaters, and it provides guidelines for policymakers.
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1 December 2015
Scotland is to share its world-leading expertise in renewable energy and is reaffirming its support for Malawi and its people by giving thousands access to clean energy, Humza Yousaf has said today. The Minister for Europe and International Development has announced the appointment of Joss Blamire as an energy policy expert to Malawi. The move fulfils a commitment made by Scottish Ministers when Scotland was invited by the UN Secretary-General to support the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative.
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30 November 2015
The government of Finland has started preparing a new energy and climate strategy aimed at creating a basis for fulfilling the EU’s climate and energy goals for 2030. It aims to increase the share of renewable energy in the 2020s to over 50%.
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29 November 2015
The Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which launched today in Paris, is a global group of private investors that will take the risks that allow early-stage energy companies to get innovation out of the lab and into the marketplace. The group will invest in companies that have the best chance to make reliable zero-carbon energy available to everyone at an affordable price.
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27 November 2015
According to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of India, more than 2.3 gigawatts (GW) of renewable capacities were connected to the grid between 1 April 2015 and 31 October 2015, raising the installed renewable capacity in India to 38.1 GW.
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26 November 2015
The governing board of the Private Finance Advisory Network (PFAN), a multilateral public-private partnership that connects clean energy businesses with private financing, announced today it has entered negotiations with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) for the two organizations to jointly host the next generation of PFAN in Vienna.
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