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Shale Gas Revolution: Setback or Boost for Renewable Energy Future?

Is the shale gas revolution a brake on progress towards faster adoption of renewable energy? Many argue that it is, but there is also persuasive evidence that it could also  boost integration of...

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Urban Energy Efficiency – Mexico’s Winning Formula for Sustainable Development

In the late afternoon of June 17, as the streets of Mexico City transformed into probably the largest celebration of a tie game at the World Cup, I joined 200 other people filling the main hall of the...

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Rethinking Investments in High Carbon Infrastructure

To combat climate change we must leave at least two thirds of all carbon in the ground. This could have significant implications for fossil fuel combustion and supply infrastructure, possibly leading...

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Myanmar and Lao PDR: Dialogue about Natural Resource Wealth

The ancient cities of Bagan, Myanmar, and Luang Prabang, of Lao PDR offer today’s travelers a nostalgic vision of South East Asia: timeless landscapes and exquisite architecture. This vision is in...

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Extractive Industries Can Work for the Poor

Everyone agrees that enhanced transparency—on payments, revenues, royalties and taxes—is essential to success in developing countries to turn earnings from oil, gas and mining into economic growth and...

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Are We Rising to the Renewable Energy Challenge?

We are living in very exciting times when it comes to renewable energy. All over the world, countries are taking steps to generate more and more of their power from their wind, solar and hydropower...

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New Senior Director of Energy and Extractives on Challenges and Opportunities

Q: As the new Director for the Energy and Extractives Global Practice at the World Bank, can you tell us about the greatest challenges you face in Extractives?A: Extractive industries are complex and...

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The energy future, as seen from Denmark

Driving across the Danish countryside, they cannot be missed: towering white wind turbines as far as the eye can see, their slow-turning blades providing a 21st century counterpoint against the flat...

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Updating the renewable energy lexicon

​ A just-published report by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) on the integration of variable renewable energy (VRE) into national grid systems shows once again that...

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Getting to 100% renewable: dream or reality?

​Attending the Future of Energy Summit last month, an annual event hosted by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, I was struck – for the second year running – by the rapid pace of cost reductions and...

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Jamaica, Kenya take cues from India on electrifying urban slums

Residents in Wazirpur, India share with us how electricity access has spurred their hope for a better, more dignified life. (Photo: TPDLL)Rarely does one read about a private utility’s successful...

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Solar energy brings smiles to healthy babies and happy farmers

Last month, I met an obstetrician in India and in the course of conversation, asked her how many babies she had delivered. “After ten thousand babies, I stopped counting,” she said. Naturally, I was...

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Being the 'honest broker' for Ghana’s one-of-a-kind energy deal

Podcast: Investment in Ghana It’s not every day that oil and gas companies commit to an $8 billion project, even as commodity prices show no signs of stabilizing. Such a deal is even tougher to...

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Bridging the energy divide

Energy is fundamental to economic growth and environmental sustainability. Sustainable Development Goal 7 -- "Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all" --...

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What will it take to deepen the renewable energy transformation?

Those of us who have been working on climate change over the years have witnessed a number of encouraging announcements as a run-up to the Paris COP, where the global community is gathering to agree...

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Women in mining share pain and unite for change

I recently joined over 150 women who work in the mining sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at a conference sponsored by the World Bank. This was the first national conference ever held...

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Opportunity Africa: people, power, planet

Africa is rich—energy rich. The continent has massive potential for renewable and low-carbon energy, with unparalleled resources to generate solar, wind, hydro and geothermal power.With such an...

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Will the Sun God answer poor farmers' prayers or make things worse?

Farmer in West Bengal, India. Photo by Amit Jain / World Bank)If God appeared in the dream of a paddy farmer in India’s West Bengal and said, “You have made me happy with your hard work, make any three...

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Boosting clean tech to power a low-carbon future

 Global warming can be limited by reducing or avoiding greenhouse gases stemming from human activities - particularly in the energy, industry, transport, and building sectors—which together account for...

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Let's come clean about dirty cooking

Really – let’s.It’s a fact: Indoor air pollution from cooking with solid fuels including wood, charcoal, coal, animal dung, and crop waste in open fires and traditional stoves is the fourth leading...

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