Energy documents - policy
Practical Action documents on energy policy issues - including the importance of energy access for poverty reduction, and the opportunities offered by sustainable and renewable energy technologies.
Energy policy documents
Biofuels for transport
Massive and unregulated large-scale production of biofuels would be potentially destructive for the environment, a threat to food security, and will affect sustainable development and the livelihoods of the poor.
Biofuels for transport
Massive and unregulated large-scale production of biofuels would be potentially destructive for the environment, a threat to food security, and will affect sustainable development and the livelihoods of the poor.
Bridging the funding gap to ensure energy access for the poor
Presented at ""Financing energy access for the poor"", a Practical Action event at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) 15, New York 2007.
Climate change and energy poverty in Africa
An analyis of the interconnecting themes between climate change and energy access for the poor in sub-Saharan Africa
Climate change and the challenge of energy poverty
Climate change mitigation and the ending of energy poverty are not incompatible goals. Governments have the duty to ensure that the poor are able to fulfil their basic needs, including those dependent on energy. At the same time developing countries need support to develop in a carbon neutral...
Energising poverty reduction in Africa: Europe's chance to help light up Africa
This paper, launched ahead of the G8 summit in July 2005, outlines the how African populations are chronically underserved in terms of energy and how this contributes to the poverty crisis facing the continent. It looks at two recent proposals for African development, and considers the current...
Energy options for the poor in Africa and Latin America: workshop report
In March 2006, Practical Action organised a two-day workshop in Brussels, making a call for decentralised energy options to be at the top of the European Commission's agenda to combat poverty in rural areas of Africa and Latin America.
Energy poverty: the hidden crisis
International development agencies, donors and governments in low-income countries need to make energy access for the poor a priority if they are meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and eradicate poverty. This briefing paper looks at the existing barriers to energy access and the...
Energy to reduce poverty: the urgency for G8 action on climate justice
This report outlines Practical Action’s experience demonstrating that small-scale renewable energy can provide clean, appropriate and affordable energy in the world’s poorest and most remote communities, helping lift people out of poverty and improving lives. It explains how such technologies...
Energy to reduce poverty: UK Prime Minister's reply
A reply from the UK Prime Minister on climate change, energy and development, reacting to the Practical Action paper 'Energy to reduce poverty: the urgency for G8 action on climate justice'.
Financing Energy Through the EC
An introduction into the mechanisms for financing energy projects via the EC and an evaluation of the EC Energy Facility as a means of funding small scale renewable energy projects
GATS and the electricity and water sectors
A report by Stephen Thomas and David Hall of the Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) at the University of Greenwich, commissioned by Practical Action in 2006.
General agreement on trade in services (GATS): a case for energy sub-sector in Kenya
Consultancy undertaken for Practical Action by Jasper A. Okelo, School Of Economics, University Of Nairobi, April 2006.
How to engage with GATS: Practical Action and service provision for the poorest
This policy document details the concerns we have over the existing GATS process, especially with respect to the most vulnerable sectors: women, indigenous peoples, Dalit communities etc.
Inventory of innovative indoor air pollution alleviating technologies in Nepal
This report can be used by the readers to facilitate their decision making on appropriate choice of technology suitable for their own use of for further dissemination.
Key elements for the analysis of electricity access in SubSaharan African
Key elements for the analysis of electricity access in Sub Saharan Africa, review of rate of adoption at planning stages and relation to MDG fulfillment in two reference countries: Ghana and Mozambique
Power to the people: a private sector perspective
Presentation to the Practical Action (ITDG) Power to the People conference, July 2002, looking at photo-voltaic solar power (PV) in Sri Lanka.
Power to the People: sustainable energy solutions seminar - July 2002
A report and transcript on this multi-stakeholder seminar, hosted by Practical Action in 2002 to examine visions to deliver sustainable energy solutions to the world's poor.
Power to the People: sustainable energy solutions seminar - September 2002 (WSSD)
Practical Action facilitated a multi-stakeholder seminar on energy and poverty reduction at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in 2002. The event presented five key visions from two inter-governmental organisations, a major private sector company, and leading environmental and...
Powerful: champions for energy access
Access to basic, clean energy services is essential for sustainable development and poverty eradication, and provides major benefits in the areas of health, literacy and equity.
Powering poverty reduction
In this paper, launched at the Renewables 2004 conference in Bonn, Practical Action called for international policies that consider the needs of the poor and ensure that appropriate, workable and renewable services are promoted.
The Africa-EU Energy Partnership and civil society
A briefing paper on the Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP), which aims to scale up investment in energy infrastructure, to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency and improve management of energy resources.
Turning off the lights: GATS and the threat to community electricity in Sri Lanka
The US and EU should halt attempts to pressurise developing countries to accept electricity privatisation in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) negotiations so that low cost community run electricity schemes are protected.
