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Daily Coverage
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary from this meeting. To download our report please click below in the HTML or PDF icons. |
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TRACK 1 - TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE |
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Power Technology and Infrastructure |
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In the morning, this panel discussed grid stability, systems approaches to ensure functioning energy systems and incentivized systems to ensure government investment in renewables. |
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Heating and Cooling Technologies |
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The track continued by focusing on markets for solar cooling and heating pumps, policy frameworks for heating and cooling, and product development and market research. |
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This panel discussed the use of renewables in green buildings, with an emphasis on building design for lower energy consumption. |
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The booth of the newly created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). |
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Renewable Energy Scenarios |
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This track began the day with talking about time frames and costs of various scenarios in view of the expected massive transition to renewable energy in the coming decades. |
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The morning continued with panels debating policies needed to bring more renewably generated power to the grid. |
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Panelists discussed the renewable energy situation in rural areas, with many referring to distributed, decentralized generation systems and renewable energy being a factor integrating grid and non-grid power. |
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Financing Innovation – Projects, Businesses and Technologies |
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In the morning, the panel on financing innovation - projects, businesses and technologies discussed the roles for public and private finance, and finance models for supporting innovation. |
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Financing Deployment at Scale |
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The next session, on financing deployment at scale, discussed overcoming hurdles to renewable energy growth, such as lack of adequate power infrastructure, unpredictable government support, and the need to redraw financing structures to accommodate the nuances of renewables. |
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TRACK 4 – RENEWABLES, ACCESS AND MDGs |
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This session discussed the role of women in renewable energy markets, including barriers to obtaining credit, delivery of energy services, and improving household life and health. |
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This session discussed renewables potential, household energy access, and challenges to investment in India. |
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A small part of the otherwise massive trade show. |
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IISD RS writer Anna Schulz offering some perspective to illustrate the size of a wind turbine rotor. |
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Conference resources
Conference website
Conference agenda
Conference parallel events
Ren21, International Renewable Energy Conferences
IISD RS resources
IISD RS summary report of the First High-Level Meeting of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership, 14-15 September 2010, Vienna, Austria (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS summary report of the Global Renewable Energy Forum - “Scaling up Renewable Energy,” 7-9 October 2009, León, Mexico (English: HTML - PDF) (Spanish: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS summary report of the Vienna Energy Conference 2009, 22-24 June 2009, Vienna, Austria (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the International Conference on Renewable Energy in Africa, 16-18 April 2008, Dakar, Senegal
IISD RS coverage of the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008), 4-6 March 2008, Washington, DC, United States of America
IISD RS coverage of the International Conference for Renewable Energies (renewables 2004), 1-4 June 2004, Bonn, Germany
IISD RS briefing note of the High-Level Meeting on African Agriculture in the 21st Century, 9-10 February 2009, Windhoek, Namibia (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS archive of meetings on climate change, and backgrounder
Energy-L - A mailing list for news on energy policy
Climate-L - A mailing list for news on climate change policy
SIDS Policy and Practice - A Knowledgebase on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
African Regional Coverage
Latin America and Caribbean Regional Coverage |
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