Publications
Clean Energy for Development
and Economic Growth: Biomass and other renewable energy options to meet energy and development
needs in poor nations
Authors: Daniel M. Kammen, Robert Bailis and Antonia V. Herzog
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on authors
Executive summary
Introduction: Renewable energy, global warming and sustainable development
1 Energy and the poor
1.1 Rural-urban energy linkages
1.2 The energy mix in urban and rural areas
1.3 The 'energy ladder' and household fuel switching
1.4 Energy services for the poor
1.5 Energy and the poor: Conclusions
2 Biomass (Energy) for household use: Resources and impacts
2.1 Sources of household biomass
2.2 Impacts of household biomass use
2.3 Household use of biomass: Conclusions
3 Biomass energy beyond the household: Scaling up
3.1 Small and medium commercial businesses and institutions
3.2 Potential to transform commercial and institutional biomass-based energy systems
3.3 Scaling up: Conclusion
4 Biomass energy conversion technologies
4.1 Combustion
4.2 Gasification
4.3 Anaerobic digestion
4.4 Liquid biofuels
4.5 Bioenergy conversion technologies: Conclusions
5 Renewable energy technologies: Markets and costs
5.1 Recent progress in renewable energy system cost and performance
5.2 Lessons learned in developing countries
5.3 Leveling the playing field
5.4 RET markets and costs: Conclusions
6 Biomass, bioenergy and climate change mitigation
6.1 CDM: explicit link between climate change mitigation & sustainable development
6.2 Energy projects in the CDM: The critical issues
6.3 Public participation in project development and implementation
6.4 Project management
6.5 Equity
6.6 Technology transfer and capacity building
Conclusions
References
Case Study 1: Modular biopower for community-scale enterprise development
Case Study 2: Scaling-up biogas technology in Nepal
Case Study 3: Commercial production of charcoal briquettes from waste
Case Study 4: Ethanol in Brazil
Case Study 5: Carbon from urban woodfuels in the West African Sahel
Case Study 6: Sustainable fuelwood use through efficient cookstoves in rural Mexico
Case Study 7: Use of enhanced boilers in the Hammams in Morocco
Case Study 8: Improvement of cooking equipment in the Moroccan countryside
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