Items tagged:
Biomass energy
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Showcasing innovations in policy approaches to informality
IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets initiative has published seven briefing papers that showcase innovations – and challenges – in developing inclusive policy approaches for the informal economy
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Energy equity: can the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative make a difference?
The Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (abbreviated to SE4ALL) has set three goals to be attained by 2030: 1) ensuring universal access to modern energy services; 2) doubling the rate of improve
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Biomass: boon or bane?
A new IIED briefing paper asks some hard questions about biomass investments and warns that rising demand for renewable energy sources could drive land grabs.
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Rising demand for renewable energy could drive more land grabs
Rising demand for the dominant form of renewable energy worldwide – wood – could drive yet more acquisitions of land in developing countries where food insecurity is rising and land rights are weak, say researchers at IIED.
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Biomass in the red – but can we put biomass into REDD+?
Commercial forest rights that create incentives for Malawians to plant trees on farm for food and fuel are essential for REDD+ and climate change adaptation.
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Can the forest biomass boom be made sustainable?
IIED is supporting the 2nd Annual Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability conference, which will explore the changing role of forestry in the search for greener economies that reduce carbon emissions.
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Setting fire to outdated thinking on biomass energy
Energy shortages and rising fuel costs are nothing new to the poor in developing countries where 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and 2.4 billion use biomass as their primary cooking and heating fuels. What is new, is the idea that renewable biomass energy itself could enable developing countries to fight poverty and climate change, create jobs and gain energy independence.
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Biomass energy: optimising its contribution to poverty reduction and ecosystem services
This project aimed to develop a North-South-South partnership to reshape the impact of global biomass energy expansion
