Countries around the world and industries here at home are moving ahead with innovative technologies that make cars and trucks more efficient, hybrid and electric vehicles more practical, and vehicle fuels less polluting. With these and other solutions a…
At the beginning of every new year, millions of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, which inevitably are forgotten by the end of January. This year, forget making a New Year’s resolution. Instead make a home energy efficiency resolution. Need some i…
Renewables are steadily becoming a greater part of the global energy mix, in parƟcular in the power sector and in regions that have put in place measures to promote their deployment. Double-digit growth rates have been observed in the last …
The purpose of hazard identification is to evaluate the weight of evidence for adverse effects in humans based on assessment of all available data on toxicity and mode of action. It is designed to address primarily two questions: (a) whether an agent may p…
The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook has been publishing on the number of people relying on the traditional use of biomass for cooking since WEO-2002. Here we present regional aggregate results from our WEO-2013 database*. Our database o…
The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook first constructed a database on electrification rates for WEO-2002. We have updated this database once again for WEO-2013, showing detailed data on urban and rural electrification. The general paucity…