Sweden puts focus on electricity for city people and rural farmers in Tanzania, granting SEK 500 million for a new programme to provide access to electricity in six districts in the Iringa and Ruvuma regions.

New transmission lines will make it possible to close down old and polluting diesel-driven power plants.

Three project contracts will be put out on tender.

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Aid-funded studies lead to Danish carbon credit purchase

Danish aid has resulted in the purchase by Denmark of CDM quotas from a palm oil project equivalent to 245,000 tonnes of CO2. Norway, about to enter the CDM market, has a different approach to using ODA.

In an unusual move, the World Bank rushed to Oslo last month to ensure Norwegian energy companies that it wants to cooperate with them in the future.

An independent commission provides harsh criticism of the economic analysis underlying the controversial decision to develop the 250-megwatt Bujagali hydropower project in Uganda.

A new study carried out by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) raises doubts about the CDM mechanism where rich countries invest in “green" projects in the developing world as a way of reaching their own emission reduction targets.