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  • Energy recovery from waste: A ‘circular economy’ opportunity for the Caribbean

    May 5, 2022

    By: Roberto G. Aiello, Principal Energy Specialist at IDB; and Juan Ramon Morante, Director of IREC Solid waste disposal is a sensitive issue for Caribbean countries given land constraints and the importance of natural ecosystems for their tourism-based economies. This is exacerbated by increasing volumes of waste and the lack of integrated solid waste management […]

  • Caribbean Workforce Development Needed to Drive Solar Energy Revolution

    April 15, 2022

    By: Dr. Wayne Archibald from Green Solutions International SKN INC Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our times, but there is no more time for ideas without action. The social, economic, and political costs of inaction are too high for small island developing states across the Caribbean. The global community agreed to […]

  • UK looks to build deeper cooperation with the Caribbean

    March 17, 2022

    By: Jonathan Knott CMG, HM Trade Commissioner for Latin America and the Caribbean, UK Department of International Trade When COP26 ended, I’m sure the feeling of all those present was that a lot of progress had been made in terms of ideas, projects and effective actions, but that the job was far from done. By […]

  • Build Forward: An ambitious initiative to accelerate the energy transition in the Caribbean

    November 29, 2021

    By Therese Turner Jones and Roberto G. Aiello While the Caribbean’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions are low compared to the global aggregate, the region is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, manifest in rising sea levels, warmer temperatures and increased intensity of hurricanes. The last three years have also seen a record rise […]

  • What the Caribbean Needs from COP26

    October 14, 2021

    Nowhere in the world needs COP26 to deliver more than the Caribbean. As the effects of climate change accelerate, New Energy asked key figures from across the region to tell us what they hope for, and what the international community needs to do to support the bid for resilience and the energy transition in the […]

  • Three insights from the IEA on the future of hydrogen in LAC

    September 16, 2021

    Por favor revise más abajo versión en español Latin America is one of the world’s leading regions for renewable energy production and use and is, as a region, one of the major players in the international push for low-carbon hydrogen. Currently more than 11 countries have either launched or are in the process of launching […]

  • How Covid has changed the Caribbean renewable energy business, and how the renewable energy business can help the economic recovery of the Caribbean

    June 9, 2021

    By: Bruce Levy, President & CEO, BMR Energy The short term economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Caribbean has been devastating. Affecting governments, businesses and individuals alike, unemployment was – and still is – rife and the recovery will be long and slow. A year ago many of us felt that the impact […]

  • 5 ways to decarbonize national oil companies in Latin America and the Caribbean

    February 17, 2021

    By: Paola Carvajal, Javier García, Carlos Sucre and Christiaan Gischler, IDB The global hydrocarbon industry has been a long-time pillar of energy systems supplying in 2018 around 54% of global primary energy. This supply comes at a high cost in terms of carbon emissions as it accounted for 56% of the planet’s carbon dioxide emissions […]

  • closing the gender gap in energy

    How do we close the energy sector gender gap?

    September 27, 2018

    By Virginia Snyder, Energy Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank As the global power sector becomes cleaner and more technologically advanced, there is one critical area which lags: diversity and gender equality.  Globally, women represent only 20 percent of the energy sector workforce.  Across Latin America and the Caribbean, women account for only 17 percent of senior […]

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