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  • Accelerating the transition to sustainable mobility and low carbon emissions in Panama City

    CTCN
    Date of submission
    Phase
    Completed
    Countries
    Panama
    Objective
    Mitigation
    Sectors
    Transport
    Cross-sectoral enabler
    Economics and financial decision-making
    Governance and planning
    Approach
    Community based

    Context



    Panama is working on the transformation from a traditional scheme of public transportation to a more integrated system, which will offer citizens access to quality and accessible transport services. The recent arrival of natural gas in Panama brings the opportunity to use this fuel in transportation, whilst the advances within the electric mobility field offer a very attractive and more environmentally friendly alternative.

  • Liquefied Natural Gas in trucks and cars

    Liquefied Natural Gas in trucks and cars
    Sectors
    Transport
    Objective
    Adaptation

    The use of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in transport is a suitable option to power large long-distance trucks in areas where gas is transported as liquefied natural gas because there are indigenous gas supplies and no gas network. The use of LNG in passenger cars is far less viable because on average passenger cars stand idle more often, which would give rise to high evaporative losses.

  • Global Environment Centre Foundation

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    Knowledge partner
    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Japan
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Knowledge Partner
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Forestry
    Transport
    Waste management

    The Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC) is an entity that supports the UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC), based in Japan.

  • Utility Transformation: Scenario Planning Process and Outputs

    Publication date
    Objective
    Adaptation
    Mitigation
    Approach
    Community based
    Disaster risk reduction

    Utility Transformation: Scenario Planning Process and Outputs

    Objective: Support utilities’ understanding of the pace of change in the energy sector, and inform intentional decisions to capture value and opportunities in a changingenergy landscape.

    The Advanced Energy Centre facilitates thefollowing process to achieve its core objective:

  • Gasendal – A world class biogas plant

    Objective
    Mitigation
    Technology
    Biogas from waste
    Biogas as fuel

    When opened in spring 2007, the Gasendal plant, was the largest biogas upgrading facility in the world.

    The plant receives biogas from Gryaab, a local wastewater treatment plant, and upgrades it to natural gas quality. The gas, which is injected into the natural gas grid, is used primarily as vehicle fuel in accordance with the green gas principle, in a way similar to the trade in green electricity. By replacing petrol with biogas in vehicles, carbon dioxide emissions is cut by up to 15,000 tons per year.

  • Natural gas combined cycle plants

    Sectors
    Renewable energy
    Objective
    Mitigation

    Fuel switching, or the replacement of fossil fuels with a high carbon content with low-carbon fuels, is one of the principal methods suggested to reduce CO2 emissions from energy consumption in the near future. Since natural gas has a lower carbon content than coal or oil, switching from coal to gas as the primary fuel for electricity generation can result in a 50% reduction of CO2 emissions per kWh

  • Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as fuel

    Sectors
    Transport
    Objective
    Mitigation

    The use of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a transport fuel is a mature technology and widely used in parts of the world. Although compressed natural gas is a fossil fuel, it is the cleanest burning fuel at the moment in terms of NOx and soot (PM) emissions.