08 May 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: News, REEEP
We have been supporting IRENA since last year on their development of an online platform for renewable energy education and training. Well, I’m pleased to say that it was launched at CEM3 in London a couple of weeks ago, so is now available. It’s called IRENA’s Renewable Energy Learning Partnership (IRELP) and is available at [...]
25 Apr 2012
Yesterday and today we are attending the CEM3 meetings in London and in the margins of these important meetings two projects are introduced – the Global Solar and Wind Atlas and the IRENA Learning and Education Partnership. reegle provides data and support for both initiatives and we are confident that both activities are an important [...]
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that a new MoU will be signed by the US and UK to strengthen collaboration in power generation, energy transmission and distribution and energy efficiency. The signing will take place when energy ministers from 23 of the world’s leading economies will gather in London at [...]
March 31st 2012 – Earth Hour! Once again households and businesses are encouraged to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour to raise awareness about the need to take action on climate change. Initiated by the WWF and started in Sydney in 2008, the event has grown year by year. This year, Earth Hour [...]
Recently there was an event in London, a joint Research and Policy in Development (RAPID)/Climate Change, Environment and Forests (CCEF) occasion they called ‘Knowledge Café’. Discussed was ‘Climate policy and climate science: an oxymoron?’. It seems sensible that policy should be decided based on facts, and that climate science is the base of climate policy. [...]
12 Mar 2012
by Denise Recheis - Category: News
I just discovered a new web tool that might interest our readers: DECC (Department of Energy and Climate Change) has developed the 2050 Calculator, an exiting tool where you can create a UK emissions reduction pathways and see its impacts. This cool application is based on actual UK data, and it’s made possible through the [...]