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Introducing the Open Government Partnership

23 November 2015
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has a set of mechanics and eligibility criteria that countries who wish to join should comply with. This presentation outlines the actions collectively taken by the members of the OGP.

Reaching Open Government Partnership Eligibility through Budget Transparency and Asset Disclosure

23 November 2015
Budget transparency and asset disclosure are among the criteria to achieve Open Government Partnership eligibility. Countries in Asia, including Mongolia, have been implementing measures to uphold both budget transparency and disclosure.

Low Carbon Development: Moving Ideas to Political and Financial Viability

13 November 2015
Center for Climate Strategies’ Scott Williamson and Stephen Roe explain the low carbon development planning and analysis system that their organization has been developing over the past years. In this session video, they discuss what the system does, what the organization has been doing with it,…

Low Carbon Development: Moving Ideas to Political and Financial Viability

13 November 2015
Center for Climate Strategies’ Scott Williamson and Stephen Roe share their insights on low carbon development (LCD), highlighting its importance and benefits. In this video interview, they explain the aspects of human life that are directly associated with it, and the stakeholders that should be…

Session Video - Urban Development and Regional Cooperation and Integration: Where is the Interface?

9 November 2015
Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Pradeep Srivastava, in this presentation, provides a brief overview of regional cooperation and integration (RCI). He highlights the importance of recognizing space in regional cooperation, which produces a different type of RCI. The applications that have become the…

Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption into Climate Finance

30 October 2015
Anti-corruption mainstreaming aims to reduce corruption to achieve certain goals, for instance, mitigating the impact of climate change. While mainstreaming anti-corruption into climate finance has its own set of challenges, the key is to adapt anti-corruption approaches to sector characteristics…

Energy Efficiency in Indonesia

9 October 2015
This presentation explains the concept of energy efficiency. It differentiates energy conservation from energy efficiency, and intends to find out if the latter is the cheapest energy source. The energy efficiency situation in Indonesia, including the top down and bottom up approaches, are…

Sustainable Technologies: Integration of Renewable Energy

9 October 2015
Today’s growing share of renewables and distributed generation calls for end-to-end energy management. The increasing need for the integration of renewable generation has created new challenges in the management of smart grids. Siemens Energy Management lives up to future challenges by offering a…

Renewable Energy Access Market Map: Leveraging Geospatial Analysis in the Renewable Energy Data and Information Infrastructure Development

9 October 2015
This presentation enumerates the key questions on and identifies the challenges of renewable energy development. The importance of using geographic mapping facilities is discussed as well.

Oracle Utilities Supporting Center of Excellence for Clean Energy

9 October 2015
As utilities manage broader renewable generation and with the introduction of “green” technology in the electricity network, Oracle provides its view of the changes for consideration. More specifically, it examines the drivers of change, along with the requirements that include smart grid as well…