The new European Report on Development 2011-2012: “Confronting Scarcity: Managing Water, Energy and Land for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth”, authored by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) and the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (GDI/DIE) has been launched in Brussels this week. The report looks at increasing scarcity and how it is likely to affect the prospects of furthering inclusive and sustainable development. It analyses the interconnections among water, energy and land and stresses the benefits of shifting towards an integrated nexus approach.
May 17, 2012
Release of The European Report on Development
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April 19, 2012
Sustainable Energy for All: Milestone on a road to where?
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Four months old, the International Year for Sustainable Energy for All seems well down the road to successfully ensuring energy poverty has higher priority in development policy and programming. The EU Sustainable Energy for All Summit this week, brought together development ministers from the EU and Norway, energy ministers from developing countries, the Commission President, the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, and three or four hundred others, to express support for the three objectives of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative: to achieve by 2030, universal access to modern energy services, a doubling of the rate of improvement in energy efficiency, and a doubling of the share of renewables in the global energy mix.
ODI Research Fellow Andrew Scott analyses the initiative in this EDCSP blog.
February 12, 2011
Final EDC2020 Event: Shaping Europe’s Global Role
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ODI participated in the final EDC2020 event on Friday 11th February in Brussels. This was an opportunity to present the results of three years of collaborative research from think-tanks across Europe. The project had three areas of focus: The impact of new actors in international development; energy security, democracy and political development; and climate change and European development cooperation. For more information, and to find EDC2020 publications, visit the project’s website here.
For a copy of EDCSP’s trip report of the final event, click here.
