Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
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New WMO certified megaflash lightning extremes for flash distance (709 km) and duration (16.73 seconds) recorded from space
<p>Identification and validation of atmospheric extremes is essential to monitoring climate change, to addressing engineering and safety concerns, and to promoting technological advancement.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Megaflash-Lightning-Extremes.pdf"
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Empowering Countries to achieve Zero Hunger
<p>The WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger is a global hub for knowledge exchange, capacity development and technical assistance to assist countries achieve zero hunger while it supports national ownership
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Resource-Backed Loans: Pitfalls and Potential
<p>To finance their progress, developing countries must inevitably find ways to overcome challenges. One major issue that these countries face is that investors often perceive developing countries as carrying
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Energy Safety Nets:Using social assistance mechanisms to close affordbility gaps for the poor
<p>The Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) mandate to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services for all, means that even the poorest and most disadvantaged in society
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Energy Policy Lighthouses: The Little Green Book
<p>By many measures, the world is still in the early stages of a deep and profound transformation in energy, and industrial and agricultural processes. The aim of that transition is to achieve new policy
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Renewable energy auctions: Status and trends beyond price
<p>As the renewable energy sector matures, policies must be adapted to reflect changing market conditions. With the increasing use of auctions, policymakers seek to procure renewables-based electricity
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Double-duty actions: seizing programme and policy opportunities to address malnutrition in all its forms
<p>Actions to address different forms of malnutrition are typically managed by separate communities, policies, programmes, governance structures, and funding streams. By contrast, double-duty actions,
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Technologies for climate-resilient smallholder agriculture: sharing practices from Brazil with Africa
Brazil and Africa share similar environmental, climate and social conditions, and both face similar development challenges. This creates interesting opportunities for South-South collaboration through
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Technologies for climate-resilient smallholder agriculture: sharing practices from Brazil with Africa
Brazil and Africa share similar environmental, climate and social conditions, and both face similar development challenges. This creates interesting opportunities for South-South collaboration through
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Beyond fossil fuels: fiscal transition in BRICS
For the first time, this report brings together official data on governments’ revenues and subsidies associated with fossil fuels in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (referred to collectively