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[Job Opportunity] Technical Hub Coordinator - Global Disability Fund
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Deadline for application: 23/04/2025, 05:59 AM Organisation: UNDP Location: New York, United States Duration: Fixed Term Job level: P4 Short job description: The Global Disability Fund (Formerly UNPRPD) is seeking a highly...
United States
Employment & VET
Blue power
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Powering the Blue Economy: an American anthology exploring opportunities for marine renewable energy in maritime markets (DOE, April 2019)
Americas & the Caribbean
United States
Climate change & disaster risks
Clean energy technology
Climate finance
+13Energy
Clean energy technology
Energy education/training
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Renewable energy
Hydro-electric energy
Ocean power
Renewable energy
Environment & green economy
Environmental research
Natural resource management
Resource efficiency
Achieving impact. Leadership and partnership to Feed the Future: US government efforts to fight hunger, poverty, and malnutrition
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This report, published in 2015, highlights progress under Feed the Future, President Obama’s signature initiative to combat global hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, as well as other major U.S. Government food security...
United States
Food & Nutrition Security
Livestock and food security
Grow markets, fight hunger: a food security framework for US-Africa trade relations
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Published by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, USA, in March 2015, this report considers that the African agriculture and food sector is expected to reach US$1 trillion by 2030. The US Congress has several legislative...
Africa
United States
Food & Nutrition Security
Livestock and food security
Trade & Economic Integration
Differentiating CSP fact from fiction
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In a competitive energy market the only technologies that will survive is the one that produces the lowest cost of electricity. In a competitive energy market the only technologies that will survive is the one that produces the...
United States
Energy
Solar energy
Present and future: cost reduction and new opportunities now central to thin film
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The US market for thin film has shown great promise, thanks to a competitive LCOE, cost reduction and efficiency increase potential and the ability to cater for a rising demand for renewables. After years of consolidation...
United States
Winners of US CSP Today awards announced
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The winners of this year’s awards include:Commercialized Technology Innovation USA 2011 Torresol EnergyCSP Today Increased Dispatchability Solution USA 2011 Solar ReserveCSP Today Newcomer of 2011 Gossamer Space FramesCSP Today...
United States
Energy
Solar energy
Determining performance characteristics crucial for CSP
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As the development of large-scale CSP projects begins in the United States, the ability to accurately determine the performance characteristics in the efficiency, heat losses and overall power output of plants under operation is...
United States
Energy
Solar energy
CPV Industry to Lay Down Marker towards Commercialization in November
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The CPV industry is making headway in the renewable energy landscape, with a pipeline of around 700MW now either planned or in operation. Recent reports have estimated at least 1GW of new installations will be in place by 2015...
United States
Energy
Solar energy
US Concentrated Solar Power Industry receives its biggest boost yet by American DoE
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One of the companies who have recently secured DoE backing with a loan guarantee is celebrating their ground-breaking ceremony today. With over $2.1bl in founding, this plant will be the largest in the world at 1GW once it is...
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