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The Use of EFlows Assessments in Basin-Planning and Design of Hydropower Operating Rules

20 June 2019
Environmental Flows (EFlows) are a vital way of mitigating the effects of human developments on rivers and estuaries, and thus for managing water resources for long-term sustainability. Modern EFlows assessment methods, based on ecosystem-modeling approaches, address the complexity of river…

NEPRA : Rising from the Ashes

20 June 2019
Within three months of raising its seed round of capital, cleantech startup Nepra encountered the 'cliff of death' following a fire that reduced its facilities to ashes. What followed was a story of resilience and determination by their promoter team and investors as they rebuilt the enterprise…

Waste is Cool! How 'First Mile' Waste Solutions can Cool the Smart Cities of the Future

20 June 2019
The need for cooling grows dramatically with rising prosperity and global temperatures. But what does that have to do with waste? 70% of the world’s waste today is dumped or landfilled without energy recovery. 2 billion tons of waste ‘wasted’ every year by 2030 correspond to 800GW of solar PV…

Strengthening Co-Benefits of Health, Climate Change and Air Quality Improvement in Energy Investments in Asian Cities

20 June 2019
Asia and the Pacific have the highest number of air pollution deaths in the world. The health effects were estimated to cost US$ 1.7 trillion in 2016, equivalent to 10% of the regions. Air pollution creates a massive economic burden for governments causing a loss of productive labor, thereby…

PRC’s Carbon Market: Accelerating a Green Economy in the People's Republic of China and Reducing Global Emissions

20 June 2019
Adopting a carbon emission trading system provide a theoretical way to solve the problem of inefficient allocation of carbon emission rights and may bring huge potentials for energy saving and emission reduction. This presentation explored the emission reduction effect of carbon emission trading…

Integrating Renewable Energy through Participative Local Energy Planning

20 June 2019
Globally, cities use 75% of the world’s energy, emitting 75% of all its GHG emissions. Yet most cities do not engage directly in planning for their power requirements. Using a participative decentralized multi-stakeholder local energy planning process undertaken in the Philippines’ largest off-grid…

Innovating for a Carbon Smart Future

20 June 2019
In this scene-setting presentation, Jennifer Holmgren emphasized the need to re-think the carbon economy, as well as the need to put carbon only where we need to. Her company, LanzaTech, is a carbon recycling company that is working to deploy carbon capture and reuse facilities globally to make…

Making Brownfields Blue: Catalyzing Sustainable Investment in the Ocean Economy with Rigs-to-Reefs

18 June 2019
Offshore energy development has led to the installation of thousands of offshore structures in the world’s oceans, including about 1400 in Asia, most of which will be decommissioned in the near future. Many of these platforms are home to some of the most productive ecosystems on the planet, making…

From France to the Philippines: Pioneering Tidal Stream Energy

18 June 2019
The San Bernardino Ocean Power Project is a transformative initiative carried out by H&WB (Filipino project developer) and SABELLA (French technology developer) to develop the Philippines’ and the ASEAN’s first commercial power plant deploying tidal in-stream turbines. The first phase sees a…

Solar Boats: A New Paradigm to Respectfully Sail the Seas

18 June 2019
Many Asian countries rely heavily on the ocean as a principal source of income, mainly from fishing and tourism. While clean mobility has the spotlight on land, little has been done to render marine transportation cleaner and more cost-effective for low-income fishermen or small business owners.…