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Critical issues series: Summaries from climate change presentations

ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, Issue 3 2002
Article first published online: 20 APR 200
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) debuted its Critical Issues Series, which is "designed to establish dialogue between and among people and organizations with differing views," at the Spring National Meeting in New Orleans last March. The initial installment was entitled "Energy and a Sustainable Planet," and featured presentations on Climate Change, Alternative Energy Options, and the Viability of Nuclear Power. Below are brief summaries from three other talks given at the session on climate change. You can view a Webcast of these presentations at http://aiche.digiscript.com/. [source]

Success factors for the effective implementation of renewable energy options for rural electrification in India,Potentials of the CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH, Issue 12 2008
Gudrun Elisabeth Benecke
Abstract Developing countries as well as international development assistance have for a long time aspired to combat energy poverty in rural areas of developing countries. However, until now a major part of national and international public and private attempts to provide affordable and stable energy supply have failed due to various economic, political, social and institutional obstacles. This situation is reflected in case of India where in comparison with other South Asian states the status of rural electrification and of energy supply are in a dismal state despite the promotion of renewable energy and rural electrification as early as from the 1960s. Embedded in the global context of the international climate change regime, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol has now emerged as a new option to facilitate investment in climate change mitigating projects. In this respect, promoting the deployment of renewable energy through this project-based mechanism opens new avenues for rural electrification. The main objective of this paper is, hence, to examine the context conditions and factors determining the effective application of renewable energy options for rural electrification in a developing country context, namely India. Understanding contextual requirements for renewable energy investment has proved imminently important in order to appreciate the potentials provided by new market-based mechanisms such as the CDM for rural poverty alleviation. Comparative political science case study research methods are applied to the analysis of CDM biomass projects in the context of the four Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. This allows for the conclusion that socio-political and historic framework conditions matter for the implementation of new renewable energy options. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Socially Responsible Investing and Climate Change: Contradictions and Challenges

AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, Issue 34 2004
Sandra Van Der Laan
This article explores the contradiction between the articulated investment policies, screening criteria or ethical charters of socially responsible investment funds and their actions demonstrated by their portfolio selection practice. The paper provides a background to socially responsible investment and Australia's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. A discussion of renewable energy options lays the foundation for our main assertion: that this set of possible alternatives provides some new and more environmentally robust options that will better complement the underlying philosophy of funds in the socially responsible investment sector. [source]