Clean Energy Policy News
27 June 2017
Financial institutions should be interested in deploying capital into energy efficiency as it brings the advantages of business opportunities, risk reduction, corporate social responsibility and reduced regulatory pressure. These are some of arguments made in the EEFIG Underwriting Toolkit, recently launched by the Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (EEFIG) and the UN Environment Finance Initiative.
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26 June 2017
The Clean Energy Ministerial has announced a new campaign to speed up the deployment of electric vehicles and target at least 30 per cent new electric vehicle sales by 2030. The EV 30@30 campaign will support the market for electric passenger cars, light commercial vans, buses and trucks. It will also work towards the deployment of charging infrastructure to supply sufficient power to the vehicles deployed.
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16 June 2017
Sweden and Canada announced they were setting up a new global Technology Collaboration Programme under the International Energy Agency to promote leadership roles for women in clean energy.
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14 June 2017
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is turning the promise of an international solar alliance to raise one trillion dollars to light up the developing world into action.
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13 June 2017
Apple Inc. has issued a $1 billion green bond to fund renewable energy generation that builds on $1.5 billion worth of bonds the company sold a year ago to further its goal of running 100 per cent of its operations on renewable energy.
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8 June 2017
Partners shared their newest commitments to the Energy Management Campaign with an international assembly of high-level clean energy leaders attending the 8th Clean Energy Ministerial, which took place June 6–8 in Beijing. The Campaign aims to achieve 50,001 global certifications to ISO 50001, the global energy management system standard by 2020.
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7 June 2017
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is partnering with governments, communities and the private sector to support clean energy projects in the Pacific region by helping install PV systems on five of the Cook Islands to help the government achieve its goal of supplying 100 per cent of inhabited islands with renewable energy by 2020.
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2 June 2017
The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) is now accepting proposals for the Project Development and Financing Initiative for Climate & Clean Energy in Asia. The objective of this initiative is to provide promising climate and clean energy businesses with coaching support from experienced professionals, to develop and refine a financially, socially and environmentally viable business plan.
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19 April 2017
Vietnam has confirmed a long-awaited feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme for utility-scale solar projects along with a net metering scheme for rooftop PV systems. The FIT would be valid from 1 June 2017 to 30 June 2019, although the Ministry of Industry and Trade is conducting a study of how to support solar projects in Vietnam after this date
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30 March 2017
The United Arab Emirates government launched the USD 50 million UAE-Caribbean Renewable Energy Fund, which seeks to accelerate the deployment of generation assets in the Caribbean.
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