Issue 9 - faculty.ait.ac.th - Asian Institute of Technology

News items, articles, information on
training courses, websites related to energy
and environmental issues in the
small and medium scale industrial sector
and other correspondence can be
sent to:
SMI Project
School of Environment, Resources and
Development, Asian Institute of Technology,
PO Box 4, Klong Luang,
Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
Fax: +66 2 524-5439/524-5625
Email: smiasia@ait.ac.th
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Collaborating Institutions
PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore 641 004, India
Contact: Prof. P. Radhakrishnan
Fax: (91)-422-573833
Email: psgait@vsnl.com
Non-State Economic Development
Centre (NEDCEN)
62, Giang Vo, Hanoi, Vietnam
Contact: Mr. Ly Dinh Son
Fax: (84)-4-823-6382
Email: NEDCEN@bdvn.vnmail.vnd.net
Center for Environmentally Sound
Technology Transfer (CESTT)
109 Wanquanhe Road,
Haidian District,
Beijing 100089, P.R. China
Contact: Mr. Shi Han
Fax: (86)-10-8263-6017
Email: shihan@info.acca21.edu.cn
Industrial Technology Development
Institute, Fuel and Energy Divison
Dept. of Science and Technology
Gen. Santos Avenue, Taguig,
Metro Manila, Philippines
Contact: Dr. Alice B. Herrera
Fax: (63)-2-837-3167
Email: fedsmi@pacific.net.ph
Industrial Services Bureau of North
Western Province
141, Kandy Road, Kurunegala,
Sri Lanka
Contact: Mr. Gamini Senanayake
Fax: (94)-37-23562
Email: gaminisn@slt.lk
For information on ARRPEEC, please contact:
Prof. S.C. Bhattacharya, ARRPEEC
Coordinator, Energy Program, Asian Institute
of Technology, PO Box 4, Klong
Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand. Fax:
+66 2 524-5439, Email: bhatta@ait.ac.th
http://www.arrpeec.ait.ac.th
The SMI newsletter is available at
http://www.serd.ait.ac.th/smi/
Email: smiasia@ait.ac.th
Key Indicators of Developing Asian
and Pacific Countries 2000, Volume
XXXI, (2000), ISBN: 0-19-592534-3,
ISSN: 0116-3000. This book, published for
the ADB by Oxford University Press
(China) Ltd., is the 31 st in a series of annual
statistical publications of the ADB. It
provides historical and current economic,
financial, environment and social statistics
on ADB's 39 developing member countries.
Key Indicators contain: (1) regional
tables where selected indicators are compared
across developing member countries
(DMCs) and (2) the country tables
where annual population, economic and
financial statistics of each DMC are presented.
The online edition is available at
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/
Key_Indicators/2000/default.asp
Financing Cleaner Production: Study
on Past Investment Practices, (2000),
ISBN: 92-807-1951-3. This book is published
by the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) under a project to increase
investments in cleaner production
in developing countries. This publication is
a report on past investment practices in
cleaner production in eight developing
countries and economies in transition. It
was prepared under the project ‘Strategies
and Mechanisms for Promoting Cleaner
Production Investment in Developing
Counties’, focusing on: Guatemala, Nicaragua,
Tanzania, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
The objective of this study was to under-
The ACTETSME eNewsletter is a
monthly electronic publication which features
valuable information and sources of
information for SMIs. It covers APEC developments
that are relevant to SMIs, insights
on emerging SMI information networks and
resources existing on the World Wide Web,
and pointers on websites for: technology
exchange and training, business facilitation
and opportunities, SMI databases, and financing
and credit services. For further
information, contact: Louie A. Divinagracia,
Exec. Director, Science & Technology Park,
UPLB, Laguna, Philippines, Tel. (63-49)
536-4225, 536-1838-40, Fax.: No.(63-49)
536-422, execdir@actetsme.org http://
www.actetsme.org/newsletter/
Clean Energy Finance is a newsletter
published by Winrock International in association
with Energy Ventures International.
It focuses on new renewable energy and
energy efficiency investment in emerging
markets. The newsletter outlines the issues
of financing energy efficiency and renew-
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stand constraints in the adoption of preventive
approaches in investment activities and
guide the training and other activities to be
carried out under the project. Its findings
also provide interesting conclusions and recommendations
for a wider audience of
stakeholders interested in the promotion of
cleaner production strategy and investment
finance. This book provides a summary and
an analysis of the results of the project. A
CD-ROM on Promoting Cleaner Production
Investment in Developing Countries is also
available. For further information, contact:
Elena.Ciccozzi@unep.fr http://www.
financingcp.org/
Handbook on Energy Audits and Management,
(2000), Tata Energy Research
Institute, India. This book describes the operation
of various equipment and systems,
and identifies opportunities for energy savings
in industrial units. It covers major energy-consuming
equipment and offers an
overview on industrial energy conservation
and lists different subsidies and financing
schemes offered by financial institutions for
energy conservation. It includes a list of
manufacturers and suppliers of energyefficient
equipment, instruments for energy
auditing and provides a methodology for
carrying out energy audits using actual case
studies. Policies of the Government of India
and financial aspects of energy conservation
projects in industry are also included. For
further information, contact: http://teriin.
org/pub/books/enaudit.htm
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CADDET Energy Efficiency is a quarterly
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Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated
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objective is to enhance the exchange
of information on new, cost-effective energysaving
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highlights specific projects and information
on general energy matters, legislation
and government policy in CADDET participating
countries. http://www.caddet-ee.org/
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SMI Newsletter, April - June 2001, Volume 3, No. 2