16 May 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
We’re in full swing preparing for Rio+20, which will mark REEEP’s 10th birthday. One major activity is a speed-brokering event that we will be co-hosting with UN DESA; see below for details on how to pre-register. If you’re not going to be in Rio, don’t worry, I’ve got news of a major RE finance event [...]
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 [...]
03 May 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
June will be a busy month on the Clean Energy events front. Of course there’s Rio+20, where a number of my REEEP colleagues will be. I’ve got news of a major event running alongside that, but if you can’t make it to Brazil there’s plenty more that month in Brussels, Durban, Hong Kong, Nairobi, Toronto… [...]
17 Apr 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
We’re in South East Asia and Europe for this week’s news of events covering clean power, energy efficiency for mobile telecoms infrastructure, sustainable biomass for electricity, urban adaptation and the role of clean energy in securing the Millennium Development Goals. ETS in Asia The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $750,000 equivalent grant to [...]
04 Apr 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
For those of you who read my last Clean Energy Events Listing post, I have an admission: I was totally wrong about it being wet in west Wales. It was warm and sunny for the whole week I was there. Of course I made the most of it, but couldn’t help being slightly worried from [...]
20 Mar 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
News of events in Accra, Durban, Miami, New York and Toronto follows, but first, here is the weather: It’s sunny in West Africa, you know 40% of Ghana’s population, mostly in the northerly regions, are not connected to the national grid. Government is keen to see that renewable energy, including solar, fills the gap. According [...]