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Stakeholder Consultation on ‘Urban- Peri Urban Energy Access’
New Delhi, India

GNESD at the Vienna Energy Forum 2011

GNESD Initiates a New Policy Analysis Theme
on Urban and Peri-urban Energy Access

Clean Energy Access for All: eradicating global energy poverty
Side Event at COP 16
7 December 2010

GNESD Policy Paper

Overview of GNESD publications

AGECC highlights GNESD's knowledge development

The UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC) highlights GNESD as a good example of knowledge creation and sharing on energy policy analysis in achieving the MDGs and Universal access to energy for all by 2030.

Read the full report and recommendations.

Documentary on Urban and Peri-Urban Energy Access

During COP 15 GNESD launched its first documentary based on the findings of the "Access to energy for the poor living in urban and peri-urban areas" theme. The documentary is filmed in Thailand, Kenya and Argentina.


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Expert meeting on Energy and the Annual Assembly 2009
15 December 2009

The GNESD Annual Assembly 2009 took place in the margins of the COP 15, under the heading of "Low Carbon-Resilient Development. Improving access to clean and efficient energy services".

Energy Access, Resilience and Capacity Building
COP 15 Side Event
16 December 2009

• How can we ensure access to adequate energy services in the context of climate change?
• Short presentations and exchange with the participating organisations.

Please see the flyer for more details.

Regional Workshops

Bioenergy and Rural Development

GNESD has recently initiated a thematic study on “Bioenergy and Rural Development”. The study will specifically examine the potentials of all forms of bioenergy i.e. gas, liquid and solid in contributing to rural development and alleviating poverty. The first phase is an inception phase which will determine the issues that will be dealt in details for the full thematic phase. The study is expected to be complete by December 2009. The study has been undertaken by GNESD centres in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The study coordinator is CENBIO one of the GNESD centres in Brazil.

Policy Papers

GNESD commissioned policy papers to be undertaken by three of GNESD centres in Africa and Latin America. The papers will generally tackle the issue of energy access and its implication to climate change both in terms of mitigation and adaptation.

Presentations on Annual Assembly 2008

Energy Access, Resilience and Capacity Building
COP 14 Side Event
8 December 2008

GNESD presented the findings from the Urban and Peri-Urban energy access theme. The side event was organized in partnership with Helio International, Gold Standard and SSN. Please see the flyer here.

Launch of new Summary for Policy Markers
“Clean Energy for the Urban Poor: an Urgent Issue”

GNESD contributed to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting 2008

GNESD contributed an article titled “Renewable energy technologies and poverty and poverty alleviation: overcoming barriers and unlocking potential” for the Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting in 2008. The article was jointly authored by J. Christensen Head of GNESD secretariat, Ogunlade Davidson and Thomas B Johansson the present Co-Chairs of GNESD.

ID21 Research highlights

GNESD research work has been included in the ID21 Research highlights. The newsletter has over 5,000 subscribers and is produced by id21, at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. For more information please see: http://www.id21.org/rural/r6gnesd1g1.html  and http://www.id21.org/rural/r6gnesd1g2.html 

Annual Assembly 2007

New activities

GNESD organised a Side Event at the Commission for Sustainable Development 15 (CSD)
8 May 2007 at 6:15-7:45 PM, Venue: Conference Room B, UN Complex, New York, USA. Title: Poverty Reduction - Can Renewable Energy Make a Real Contribution.

Regional workshops on "Renewable Energy and Poverty Alleviation"

GNESD newsletter May 2007 now available

Regional Workshop on Renewables in Productive and Livelihood generating Sectors, New Delhi, India, 7-8 March 2007.
For more information please contact Ms. A. Chaurey at akanksha (at) teri.res.in or the GNESD Secretariat

Workshop on Renewables and Poverty Alleviation ‘Best Practices for Productive Use and Job Creation', Dakar, Senegal, 21-23 March.
For more information, please contact T. Dafallah or GNESD Secretariat enda.energy (at) sentoo.sn

Latin American Workshop on Renewable Energies and Poverty, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10-12 April, 2007
For more information, please contact Director D. Bouille dbouille (at) sinectis.com.ar

GNESD's RETs Theme

Technical Reports from all Centres taking part in the Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) theme are now available

The RETs theme Working Group members have now finalized their initial assessment of RETs' contribution to satisfying the energy needs of the poor and the barriers for a further expansion. Nine reports from the participating Centres in Kenya, Lebanon, India, South Africa, Brazil, Thailand, China, Senegal and Argentina are now available under the publications section. A Comparison Report will be available shortly.

Regional Workshops focusing on Electricity and Development Facilitated

First two phases of the Energy Access theme completed successfully