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Archive for June 2009
Just an very short (edit on 3.7.) update from the second session of the Preparatory Commission of IRENA in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt):
The Signatories designated Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, as the headquarters. The other candidates for the headquaters Bonn and Vienna withdrew their candidacies shortly before Abu Dhabi was chosen. [...]
The second day of the Vienna Energy Conference started today morning with a short summary of the key findings from yesterday which are split into two parts – the challenges we are dealing with and possible solutions.
The challenge is … that there is no single challenge! We are dealing with fundamental questions like energy security, [...]
Today the International Enery Conference 2009 started in Vienna covering the topics around Securing Sustainable Policies and Investments’ . The conference is very well attended (I think there are a lot more than the proposed 500 participants, I do not see a single emtpy chair in the conference room) and we already listened to the [...]
Last week at the Meeting of the Minds summit in New York City, eighty of the world’s leading actors active in urban planning, city management and sustainable development met to discuss the future of cities. We now live in the ‘century of the city’. Since 2008 more than 51% of the world’s population live in [...]
€18.85 million investment to develop wind farms in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
10 Jun 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
The EBRD is providing an equity investment of €18.85 million to Freenergy AS, a leading Estonian investor in renewable energy in eastern Europe, to boost the volumes of green energy generated in the Baltic states.
By taking a 35 percent stake in Freenergy, the EBRD will support the company’s plans to upgrade and further develop the [...]
Philippines: Renewable energy revolutionaries
04 Jun 2009
by Maaike Göbel, REEEP South East Asia and Pacific - Category: News
Heralded as a landmark move by the government, in December 2008, the Philippine president signed the Renewable Energy Act (RE Act), demonstrating the country’s commitment to developing renewable energy (RE) in its objective to utilise sustainable energy practices. The Act seeks to make the country 60% energy sufficient by 2010 and to mitigate problems caused [...]
A roadmap to improve building energy efficiency in China
02 Jun 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: REEEP
There’s a new roadmap that looks interesting for helping China improve energy efficiency in buildings. According to UNEP buildings apparently account for 42% of Chinese energy consumption, and China already has done a lot of legislating on energy efficiency — current building codes demand that new residential buildings are 50% more efficient that those built [...]
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