Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. Its impacts can already be seen across the globe. World already is facing impacts from climate change and will inevitably see those impacts in the future. The 2007/2008 Global Human Development Report (HDR) demonstrated that cl

World Environmental Solutions and Dewpoint Systems of Hawaii have combined their two technologies enabling a containerized system of water from the air production and the accelerated growth of plants for human consumption that can be taken to normally unacceptable climatic conditions.  WES is well k

The Clean Cooking Forum 2017, co-hosted by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), TERI and others, concluded in Delhi recently. The author was a panelist at the technical session on ‘scaling markets for clean cooking: what we can learn from the off-grid solar sector’. It was an interest

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Energypedia has recently launched its mini-grid portal: a centralized platform for all information related to mini-grids such as mini-grid definition, site selection, legal & financial framework and a list of online resources (external tools, websites and publications) on mini-grids. Along with a

On June 1 last, American President Donald Trump announced to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate Agreement. President Trump noted that in withdrawing he was keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first. The decision has come as a major blow to the efforts of the climate scienti

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My colleague, Dr Mini Govindan  and I discuss while policies are gender-neutral and provide equal opportunities, it doesn't always result in equal outcomes.   It is a well-established fact that electricity empowers women. However, what is not fully understood is the depth and level of empowe

It is now little more than a year that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed to by the World’s nations at the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2015. SDGs are a set of 17 goals, backed by 169 targets, which aim to dramatically improve lives of people across the world by 2030. A

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