Energy Resources
23 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 January 2013: The International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) latest newsletter highlights recent IRENA activities, meetings, publications and reports.
In the forward, Adnan Amin, Director General IRENA, discusses the third session of the IRENA Assembly, which convened from 13-14 January 2013, in Abu Dhabi. He describes it as an important occasion for setting the agenda for action on enabling the global transition to clean and sustainable energy.
The newsletter also reviews the...
23 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
16 January 2013: Energy ministers and senior government officials from South American and Arab countries (ASPA) have adopted the Abu Dhabi Declaration on enhanced cooperation at the bi-regional mechanism’s inaugural meeting on energy.
The Declaration, adopted during the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2013, reaffirms member countries’ commitment to enhance energy links between the two regions and highlights opportunities for further cooperation in the areas of renewable energy, oil...
22 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
19 January 2013: Negotiations have completed on a new comprehensive global treaty on mercury. The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Prepare a Globally Legally Binding Instrument on Mercury (INC 5) completed its work on 19 January 2013, in Geneva, Switzerland.
To be known as the Minamata Convention on Mercury, in honor of a Japanese fishing village where serious health damage (now known as “Minamata disease”) occurred in the 1950s as the result of...
17 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 January 2013: The third session of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly convened on 13-14 January in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to discuss IRENA’s work programme and budget for 2013, medium-term strategy, progress on programmatic activities, and implementation of policies on ethics, conflicts of interest, and the secondment of personnel.
The Assembly marked the UAE’s ratification of its headquarters agreement with IRENA, which finalized the agency’s...
10 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 January 2013: The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) of the World Bank has published a press release on a project to improve the institutional framework for energy in the Maldives to help meet the country’s climate change mitigation goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2020.
The ESMAP funded project began in 2010 and is supporting the Maldives in achieving its carbon neutrality target, especially by reducing its dependence on diesel-powered electricity. As part of the...
