Program Overview: This Summit responds to the Child Survival Call to Action/A Promise Renewed. It recognizes that governments, civil society, donors, and others need evidence to inform efficacious, effective, and sustainable policies, strategies, and programs to reduce preventable child deaths and ensure healthy child development. The goal of this Evidence Summit is to provide expert review of ...

Global sustainability goals have led to the development of the green building movement. The Green Building Program, stemming from the movement, has had unprecedented success as it provides a quantifi able metric to people’s efforts towards sustainable development. Sustainable development and green buildings are often used interchangeably. Although, sustainable development and green buildings ar...

States and even local governments are increasingly realizing the need for long-term sustainable energy-environment planning as an integral part of their economic development program. These sub-national units are progressively playing a more active role in advancing policies for the reliability, environmental sustainability, and exploring the economic development impact of their energy resources...

This paper presents an analysis of policies to identify the barriers to the promotion and widespread use of bioenergy technologies (BETs) in Sri Lanka. The importance of biomass as a sustainable source of energy is recognised. The present status of BETs and the achievements are discussed. The institutional framework of the energy sector, the national energy planning and policies and, in particu...

In order to show that some of the shortcomings of current 4th grade curriculum in meeting contemporary needs of the society, especially in regard to sustainable development, can be met via teaching, a short course consisting of deliberations on key concepts in sustainable development was designed and carried out on a sample of 58 students of both genders. The pre- and post-test comparisons reve...

Sustainable development is a cross-cutting issue par excellence that necessitates a very high degree of policy coordination. This is especially true considering that the European Union’s 2001 Sustainable Development Strategy demands that all European Union (EU) policies actively support the sustainable development of other countries, particularly those in the developing world. In order to fulfi...

Charcoal is the main cooking fuel for urban populations in many African countries. Urbanization and population growth are driving an increase in demand for charcoal, whilst deforestation reduces biomass stocks. Given increasing demand for charcoal, and decreasing availability of biomass, policies are urgently needed that ensure secure energy supplies for urban households and reduce deforestatio...

*Correspondence: Peter R. Nuttall, Sustainable Sea Transport Research Programme, Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development, University of the South Pacific, Private Bag, Laucala Bay, Suva, Fiji e-mail: [email protected] The role of financing and policy in research, development, trialing and introduction of renewable energy technologies in the Pacific maritime sector is co...