The Carbon Value Analysis Tool (CVAT) is a screening tool to help companies integrate the value of carbon dioxide emissions reductions into energy-related investment decisions. The tool is used to test the sensitivity of a project’s internal rate of return to carbon value and to facilitate the development of emissions reduction strategies by developing a Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) across a portfolio of projects.

The Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment Programme's Renewable Energy Resource Explorer (RREX) is a web-based map viewer that displays data from SWERA, the UNEP renewable resource assessment program. The viewer allows you to click the map for any location in the world, and displays annual average estimates for the solar and wind resource and climate data at the location. Downloadable monthly average data is also available for each location along with information about the data sources.

MESSAGE combines technologies and fuels to construct so-called "energy chains", making it possible to map energy flows from supply to demand. The model can help design long term strategies by analyzing cost optimal energy mixes, investment needs and other costs for new infrastructure, energy supply security, energy resource utilization, rate of introduction of new technologies (technology learning), environmental constraints, etc.

MERGE quantifies alternative ways of thinking about climate change. The model is sufficiently flexible to explore views on a wide range of contentious issues: costs of abatement, damages of climate change, valuation and discounting.

This resource is designed to provide policymakers and interested individuals and groups with overviews of policy tools and approaches to improving fleet-wide automobile fuel efficiency and promote lower CO2 and non-CO2 emissions from cars, along with case studies that depict these approaches from developed and developing countries.

This report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the bioenergy statistics, cover all aspects of bioenergy—supply, conversion and end use—and provide “rule of thumb” figures. It attempts to address issues of inconsistent data and lack of interrelations between all aspects of bioenergy. Data are presented at the global, continental and regional levels.

This report highlights specific goals, namely a doubling of the global rate of improvement of energy efficiency in transport by 2030 and a 50% improvement in the average fuel economy of all cars by 2050. It underscores support for fuel economy targets from prominent bodies, including the UN Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SE4ALL) and the UN High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP).

This webinar—one in a series webinars on the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century’s flagship report, Renewables Global Status Report 2014—examined the Latin and South America region to find out what renewable changes happened in Latin and South America in 2013, learn which technologies are contributing to increased power capacity and hear how changes in policies have affected investment levels and market development in the region.

This paper offers a commercial solution to the energy access challenge. According to the authors, a significant proportion of the estimated 1.3 billion people (about 300 million households) around the world living without access to basic levels of modern energy services can be reached by 2030. They estimate that it would require much less capital than previously assumed to achieve this goal by replicating how the distributed energy service company, or DESCO model functions.

This resource is designed to provide policymakers and interested individuals and groups with overviews of policy tools and approaches to improving fleet-wide automobile fuel efficiency, and promote lower carbon dioxide (CO2) and non-CO2 emissions from cars, along with case studies that depict these approaches from developed and developing countries.