Sustainable energy, transportation, and resilience in the Caribbean

The Caribbean Forum on Energy, Transport, and Resilience was held at the Bay Gardens Hotel, Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia, from June 26 to 27, 2019. It was hosted by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of Saint Lucia, with support from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission. With the objective of exploring new technologies and combining them with existing regional experiences in sustainable urban development, the event had an overall goal to design a roadmap for the Caribbean smart cities of the future. The forum sought to further public-private exchanges among governments, energy and transportation...

Technical Paper – Electric Vehicle Batteries

The First Steps Towards The Realization Of Energy From Oceanic Waves In Jamaica

Presented at the CARISCIENCE 2019 “Caribbean Science and Innovation Meeting” Le Gosier, Guadeloupe, FWI. The study aims to highlight the behaviour of the sea state of the water mass surrounding the island. Access to this information should allow officials and investors to make a more conscious decision on the applicability of this green energy source. energy source. Key words: ocean, wave energy

The Net Zero Energy Building Project

The Story of Sunland and Winland: Why Integrated Resource and Resilience Planning is Important

This video takes viewers through the tale of two fictional Caribbean countries: Sunland and Winland. Watch as planning, or a lack thereof, affects the outcome.

THE WAY AHEAD FOR COASTAL AND OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS IN THE WIDER CARIBBEAN

Tracking SDG 7 : The Energy Progress Report 2019 : Main Report

The Global Energy Progress Report 2019 provides a global dashboard on progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which sets 2030 targets for reaching universal access to electricity and clean fuels and technologies for cooking, substantially increasing the share of renewable energy in the global mix, and doubling the rate of improvement of energy efficiency. All the data used in this pamphlet comes from the respective official source: for electrification, the World Bank; for clean fuels and technologies for cooking, the World Health Organization (WHO); for renewable energy, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and...

Training Manual: Wind Resource Assessments Session

Turbines of the Caribbean - Decarbonising Suriname's electricity mix through hydro-supported integration of wind power

This journal article explores the potential for increasing the share of renewables in Suriname’s electricity mix, with a special focus on the complementary role of existing hydropower and future wind power infrastructure. The article demonstrates that wind and hydro resources have great synergetic potential for displacing fossil fuel-based power generation.. The results presented in the article have relevance for climate policy in various Caribbean countries and other island states with existing hydropower infrastructure and substantial wind/solar power potential, for which this study fills an important literature gap.

Using the Hydropower Sustainability Tools in World Bank Group Client Countries : Lessons Learned and Recommendations

The Hydropower Sustainability Tools (HSTs) are a suite of assessment tools and guidance documents developed by a multi-stakeholder forum, aimed at driving continuous improvement in hydropower development and operations. They are useful beyond their original purpose as audit tools and can be used in World Bank Group (WBG) client countries to build capacity for sustainable hydropower. The environmental, social, and governance topics addressed by the HSTs are deliberately aligned with WBG frameworks, which provides opportunities for the tools to be used as complements to World Bank Group standards, including to help clients meet WBG requirements and support WBG staff in...