Environment, Energy and Climate Change
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Enabling Energy Access for the Poor
Achieving universal energy access by 2030 will require a change from ‘business as usual’ approaches in policies, financing, and implementation. Practical Action’s Poor People’s Energy Outlook series has focused on what energy access means for the poor, and what will be needed to address it. This bri...
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Cook Stoves in Sri Lanka
Renewable energy practices in Sri Lanka cook stoves.
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Solar Distillation
The technical brief contains the information on solar distillation process that provides clean and safe drinking water to people living in areas with less access to it. Solar distillation is the process of removing salts and other impurities using the energy of the sun to get pure water for drinking...
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Cook Stoves in Nepal
Renewable energy practices in Nepal
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Biogas Energy in Nepal
Renewable energy practices in Nepal
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Perspectives énergétiques des populations pauvres 2014
La pauvreté énergétique est un élément accablant du piège de la pauvreté qui condamne les personnes qui en sont victimes à vivre une vie de corvées et d'activités de subsistance. Au cours des dernières années, nous avons pu constater l'émergence de préoccupations en matière de pauvreté énergétique s...
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Poor People's Energy Outlook 2014
Energy poverty is a crippling component of the poverty trap that consigns victims to lives of drudgery and subsistence. Accordingly, we have recently seen the rise of concern for energy access on the international stage. However, at the national level the gravity of this issue has yet to be fully ap...
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Solar PV Energy in Nepal
Renewable energy practices in Nepal
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Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Jonathan Ensor, Rachel Berger, Saleemul Huq
As climate becomes less predictable and extreme weather events become more frequent, there is an urgent need for support that will help communities to prepare and adapt to changing conditions. This support is needed at the local level as well as the national, and must be framed by appropriate policy...
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Technologies in Bangladesh
Renewable energy practices in Bangladesh.