This second edition from 2025 provides an update to the landmark report from 2019, based on a new survey of 1192 individuals working in the sector, and 233 companies and organizations. The headline finding was that despite widespread efforts, the share of women in renewable energy has not grown over the past six years: it … Continue reading “Renewable energy: A gender perspective (Second edition)”
This publication shares the learnings from eight EU-funded research projects on energy behaviour and modelling, and presents their implications for policy design.
This is an article by a company that offers solutions to offset the emissions generated by online shopping. It provides a quick and basic guide for companies on how to start generating and selling carbon credits.
This article announces the approval in March 2025 by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) of a new cookstove methodology by Verra, which administers the Verified Carbon Standard. This sets a new benchmark for high-quality, trusted carbon credits for clean cooking. The article also provides data on the development of the clean … Continue reading “Verra’s Cookstove Credits Get ICVCM Green Light – Boosting Carbon Market Trust”
This report presents the CCA’s Principles for Responsible Carbon Finance in Clean Cooking: Integrity, Transparency, Fairness and Sustainability, and connects each with key actions to be taken by market actors.
This report assesses the effectiveness of women in energy networks worldwide and offers best practices and recommendations for networks under development or those aiming to enhance their impact.
This report provides recommendations for improving the availability of sex-disaggregated and specific gender equality data in the energy sector, to improve decision making and programme design.
This guide by the Covenant of Mayors of Sub-Saharan Africa shows that urban planning tends to be gender blind, with the design of urban street lighting as a key example. It provides a manual, aimed at African cities, on how to develop gender-responsive public lighting projects. English: https://comssa.org/download/rxeWs6zcOXbTl8qRidGZ9nCB7EFAI4Pa/Gender-sensitive-public-lighting.pdf French: https://comssa.org/download/U3kjdTBHqV6FGKfoI71EgLY2wZrSvtz8/Eclairage-public-sensible-au-genre.pdf
This report highlights the importance of sector coupling as a key source of flexibility that cities can explore to stabilise power grid operations when integrating high shares of variable renewable energy sources. It presents a range of sector coupling opportunities available for use in cities, including self-consumption of variable RE sources, the role of thermal … Continue reading “Sector Coupling in Facilitating Integration of Variable Renewable Energy in Cities”
Identifying Factors Associated with Consumers’ Adoption of e-Mobility—A Systematic Literature Review
This article investigates the following questions: 1) What are the associated factors that affect the consumer’s intention to purchase EVs? (2) What is the impact of sociodemographic variables on the adoption of EVs? (3) What are the main obstacles to and motivators for introducing EVs and the expected recommendations for manufacturers, politicians, governments, and scientists?