Sentences with phrase «international hydropower»

The International Hydropower Association has released its Activity and Strategy Report for 2017 - 2018.

The scientific community also doesn't follow a standard practice for counting emissions, even though the International Hydropower Association and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) published a set of guidelines in 2010.

[UNESCO — IHA] International Hydropower Association, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

Socio (s): CBD, IAEA, UNCCD, UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNECLAC, UNHCR, UNU, United Nations Secretary General Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, Gender and Water Alliance, Global Water Partnership, International Association of Hydrogeologists, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, International Hydropower Association, International Water Association, International Water Management Institute, Public Services International, RAMSAR — Convention on Wetlands, Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, Stockholm International Water Institute, The World Conservation Union, Aquafed, WaterAid, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Women for Water Partnership, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, World Water Council, World Wide Fund for Nature

Scene - setting: Paul Simons, IEA & Gil - Hong Kim, ADB Divyam Nagdal, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Pradeep Perera, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Bill Girling, International Hydropower Association (IHA)

The HSAP was created between 2007 and 2010 by the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum (HSAF), an initiative of the International Hydropower Association (IHA), a lobbying group formed in 1995 to represent the interests of dam builders.

Not exact matches

Buhari said while the borrowed funds would be used to finance the deficit in the 2017 budget, they would provide funding for the capital projects in the budget, including the Mambilla hydropower project; construction of a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja; counterpart funding for rail projects; and the construction of the Bodo - Bonny road, with a bridge across the Opobo Channel.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

«We may see a certain shift of resources from coal where the World Bank is pretty much exiting to big hydropower,» said Peter Bosshard of International Rivers, which has been fighting a major new dam project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Policies supporting growth in the small hydropower sector are often crafted at the national or international level, Kibler noted.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

Ultimately, the judge's rulings could have a profound affect on the Northwest region by altering the way it manages hydropower, which provides cheap electricity to millions of residents and businesses and a river transportation system for farmers to ship their goods to international markets.

The Berkeley, Calif. — based organization International Rivers discovered that a third of the CDM's hydropower projects had been completed before they were accredited.

«Together, international energy trade and strategic siting can enable African countries to pursue «no - regrets» wind and solar that can compete with conventional generation technologies like coal and hydropower,» Wu said.

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And Xie Xiaoping, the chair of Huanghe Hydropower Development, a large scale power developer, offered: «The Chinese government will carry out and fulfil its international commitments... I don't care what Mr Trump says... I think what he says is nonsense.»

But the characteristic of wind and solar is that they work much better in international cooperation — so UK would likely export a lot of power by the interconnectors when wind is strong, and imort power when wind is low in UK but strong elsewhere, or when solar power is cheap in southern europe, or when some remaining gaps could be filled with hydropower from scandinavia, from the alps or further away.

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[IEA Hydropower] International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme on Hydropower

According to the estimates of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the deployment of sustainable hydropower as proposed by this organization will help avoid approximately one billion tones of annual carbon dioxide emission by 2050.

The article «A decade on, controversy still surrounds China's Three Gorges Dam» in the journal Probe International says, «Despite the problems, the Three Gorges will be joined by a wave of new hydropower projects over the next decade — mostly spread across China's mountainous and earthquake prone southwest.»

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It has also organized more than 50 international conferences and workshops both in China and abroad, and successfully compiled the first small hydropower Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in China.

By March 6, 16.32 million CERs had been issued for 132 dams, and China accounted for 71.52 per cent of the 653 large hydropower projects in the world that have been registered or are seeking registration under the CDM to sell CERs, according to International Rivers.

However, International Rivers says there has been no substantial jump in hydropower development to match the large number of supposedly new projects applying to generate CDM credits.

This guest post by Peter Bosshard, policy director of International Rivers Network, examines China's growing pains in its increasing role as an exporter of hydropower technology and expertise.