Wood Energy Links
Below you will find links to some sites of our member countries' institutions and others that have information relevant to wood energy, renewable energy in general, etc.
FAO Sites
Country Sites
Other Sites
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World Resources Institute and its newly launched website: Earth Trends, which provides online sources for timely, accurate, and relevant environmental and sustainable development information. | ||
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Bioenergy site of the International Energy Agency (IEA) | ||
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REPP or the Renewable Energy Policy project of the Center for Renewable Energy And Sustainable Technology hosts several discussion groups like: Biomass Cooking Stoves and the Stove Archives, Bioenergy Discussion Group and its Archives , Gasification and the Gasification Archives, and other areas of interest like Ethanol, Biogas, etc. | ||
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The SEI-B Energy and Environment Program, the organization behind LEAP and EDB: Tools for Integrated Energy Analysis | ||
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Centre for Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) | ||
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Department of Science, Technology and Society (NW&S) of the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, interesting research in various fields of energy, including biomass energy and lots of links to biomass energy sites | ||
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HEDON - the Household Energy Development Organisations' Network | ||
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ECO Ltd., providing information and project management skills in the field of household energy | ||
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Forest Policy and Environment Group of the Overseas Development Institute | ||
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Energy efficiency and renewable energy information from the US Department of Energy | ||
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Information on the environmental impacts of energy production and use at ETDEWEB | ||
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The REPiS Database has information on Renewable Electric Plant Systems in the USA | ||
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Training | ||
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Various Renewable Energy Training Courses and Activities announced by HEDON | ||
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Training Courses at RECOFTC, the Regional Community Forestry Training Center | ||
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Natural Resource Management and other MSc courses at ITC, Netherlands | ||
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International training programme in Energy Management and Cleaner Production in Small and Medium Scale Industries as well as other international training actrivities at the University of Twente, Netherlands | ||
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The European Renewable Energy Centres Agency offers training courses inRenewable Energy | ||
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Training and more information about cultural differences at the Royal Tropical Institute | ||
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Other links, databases, etc. | ||
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ECN, the Netherlands has various sources of information on biomass and other renewable sources of energy. | ||
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The Electronic Development and Environment Information System (ELDIS), a search guide and database hosted by the British Library for Development Studies | ||
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Bioenergy Information Network, maintained by the U.S. Dept. of Energy | ||
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Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy including a sub-site related to biomass of the U.S. Department of Energy | ||
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Biomass Research and Development Initiative of the U.S. Dept. of Energy | ||
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Energy search by the Electric Power Research Institute | ||
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EcoIQ offers a collection of more than 2100 links to Energy sites | ||
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Michigan State University Office of International Studies and Programs. Searchable database of over 5,000 annotated links with country specific pages, maps, and more on the environment and other topics. | ||
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Publications | ||
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Publications of Intermediate Technology (ITDG) | ||
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Boiling Point the ITDG magazine devoted to household energy issues | ||
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The Village Forestry Training Manual (11.8 Mb in PDF format) and the Village Forestry Handbook (6.3 Mb in PDF format) are available for download. The manual and the handbook were developed through the Forest Management Sub-Program of the Forest Management and Conservation Program (FOMACOP), which operated in 1995-2000 as a collaborative effort of the Government of Lao PDR, Government of Finland, and the World Bank. | ||
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Wood Energy, Climate and Health | ||
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Site of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with extensive information about climate change related issues | ||
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Climate Change issues focussing on South-East Asia | ||
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Indoor air quality information by TERI | ||
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