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Civil Society Call: Energy for All 2030
(Bonn, 10.10.2011) Civil society organisations from Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa have sent in Octobre 2011 a call to EU leaders to commit to eradicating energy poverty and achieving universal energy access by 2030. The call focuses particularly on Sub-Saharan Africa, as the region most acutely affected. The call asks the EU to deliver the quantity and quality of EU funding to make this a reality.
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World Bank Group and International Energy Development
(Bonn/Stuttgart, 25.02.2011) Church Development Service and Bread for the World, two development agencies of the protestant churches in Germany, commissioned a study in order to get a comprehensive and critical overview about the energy lending policies and portfolio of the World Bank Group and its implication for sustainable development, poverty reduction and climate change. The study was accomplished by Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, USA, an expert on World Bank Group strategies and policies. The study was published in 2011 and contains 60 pages plus several annexes.
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Timid hope at end of climate negotiations in Cancun
(Cancún, 13.12.10) The Cancun Agreement, adopted by the vast majority of parties at the United Nations climate change conference (COP16) in the early morning hours of 11 December, gives guarded hope to churches and civil society groups who had called for decisive action by the world's governments. In an improvement on the process that led to the much-criticized Copenhagen Accord last year, the president of the conference managed to keep the climate negotiations in the multilateral track and make some, although insufficient, steps forward.
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Faith communities stress moral dimension of climate change
(Cancún, 09.12.10) Faith communities came together to address climate change, poverty and sustainable development in a side event jointly organized by Caritas Internationalis, ACT Alliance and the World Council of Churches (WCC) at the Cancun climate summit on 7 December.
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Issuance of Toxic Carbon Credits Undermines Credibility of UNFCCC Process
(Cancún, 08.12.2010) An open letter sent by a broad coalition of green groups including CDM Watch, Greenpeace and WWF to the COP Presidency calls to rescind millions of fake HFC-23 CDM credits. Environmentalists claim that the issuance of those credits has put a black mark on the environmental integrity of the CDM and prompted speculation that the UNFCCC process has been hijacked by special interests.
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World Bank Group and International Energy Development - Implications for Sustainable Development, Poverty Reduction and Climate Change
Titel Church Development Service and Bread for the World, two development agencies of the protestant churches in Germany, commissioned a study in order to get a comprehensive and critical overview about the energy lending policies and portfolio of the World Bank Group and its implication for sustainable development, poverty reduction and climate change. The study was accomplished by Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, USA, an expert on World Bank Group strategies and policies, published in 2011 and contains 60 pages plus several annexes.

The PEACE Handbook - People’s Empowerment for Addressing Climate Justice & Environmental Justice (PEACE)
Supported by EED the Environment- und Development-NGO "Coastal Development Partnership (CDP)" published a handbook for present and future climate activists.
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Conference Documentation: "IRENA and the Africa-EU Energy Partnership - New Dynamics for Renewable Energies in Africa"
The documentation of the symposium "IRENA and the Africa-EU Energy Partnership - New Dynamics for Renewable Energies in Africa", that took place on 14th June 2010 in Berlin, gives an overview of the debates and results of the conference. In addition, it provides the reader with practical experiences and examples of Renewable Energy solutions in African countries.
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Sustainability - A North-South Dialogue
Title Weltsichten-Dossier


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International Instruments for Financing Adaptation to Climate Change
A discussion paper produced by Bread for the World (Germany) and Church Development Service (EED, Germany), October 2008
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Climate friendly transfer of technology
The removal of obstacles are needed to facilitate transfer of technology to support actions on mitigation and adaptation. With this discussion paper DanChurchAid and Church Development Service (EED) are pointing at existing obstacles and possible proposals for how these obstacles may be removed. The paper is based on a desk study conducted by Friedel Hütz-Adams (SÜDWIND e.V.), and Stine Jessen Haakansson (independent consultant).

Renewable Energies for Fighting Poverty – Widespread, Long-Term and Financable
Documentation.
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Access to Energy for the Poor: The Church Approach
Poverty reduction in rural areas is the aim of church partners in developing countries concerned with promoting the use of renewable energies.


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