Anthropogenic emissions due to industrialization, especially because of the burning of fossil fuels and land use change augment atmospheric temperature, resulting in rise in sea level, receding glaciers and flash floods, frequent droughts, devastating hurricanes and so on. These calamities affect the population globally, but the poor are going to pay the price more because […]

K. M.Thayyib Sahini (IAEA, Vienna) 24.1 INTRODUCTION One sixth of humanity is still living in extreme poverty and struggling to have bare necessities of life. In spite of all the scientific achievements, technological progress and modern economic growth, poverty is still a continuing reality. A common understand­ing of absolute poverty is deprivation of a person […]

Educating the people about the advantages of switching to green measures or encour­aging them to adopt such measures goes a long way in mobilizing the public opinion in favour of positive action. Energy Policy had been exclusively been in the domain of ‘technocrats’ and ‘specialists.’ However, bold policies can be taken only when the policy […]

When a decision is taken towards transition to green economy, the issue of social security comes up. Will these new measures render some people to lose their livelihoods, their jobs or – make their lives comparitively more difficult? The implementation of green energy directives entails heavy investments in their new energy-efficient houses? These are a […]

A contentious issue when a government attempts an all important policy decision regarding green energy is the issue of employment. According to the IEA (2009) report, the investment in stimulus packages had a great potential of creating new jobs. It has to be understood that creating a new “green job’’ does not mean shutting down […]

An innovative mechanism that could be the much-needed solution to the Infrastructure and investment issues is proposed in the 2007 legislation in the US. This proposal envisages the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank, composed of a public-private financing mechanism (Ladislaw et al., 2009). Such a bank is expected to allow the federal government to […]

Research and Development funding is important because a majority of the world’s energy system is based primarily on the utilization of fossil fuels. Newer technologies are needed that are aimed at reducing the carbon emissions, but they are expensive and usually beyond the reach of the under-developed economies. As mentioned earlier, again a complex web […]

To a challenge so vast and that is restricted by investment as one of the main factors, financial stimuli is the much needed solution. However, with extensive liberalization of the energy markets (as in the EU zone) and state playing a major role in many resource – rich countries (like Venezuela, Russia, Iran) the promotion […]