25 Jan 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
I’m just back at my desk after an intensive week at the impressive World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. Thanks to our friends over at IRENA for hosting REEEP on their (well-positioned!) stand. We also took the opportunity to hold a workshop on how Linked Open Data can support Clean Energy development. Don’t know [...]
Linked Open Data (LOD) is a growing trend amongst governments and civil society organisations who understand that the internet now makes the entire storehouse of human knowledge available to anyone, anywhere, through access via computer or mobile device. To reflect this new reality, many organisations are taking their existing data sets – many of which [...]
11 Jan 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
A happy, healthy and successful 2012 to all of you! Here we go with the first Events Listing of the year – events over the next three months in Sofia, Mexico City, Amsterdam and online, and starting next week in Abu Dhabi, where I will be going. Also, if you’re working in Southern or East [...]
REEEP has been successfully funding and supporting projects in renewable energy and energy efficiency for several years now. Valuing and evaluating implemented projects is a crucial success factor when trying to secure further support and to attract funding. While hard outcomes, like CO2 emissions, are rather straightforward to measure, soft outcomes, which most REEEP projects [...]
20 Dec 2011
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
Last week another COP came to an inconclusive close. Last month an era at REEEP ended with the retirement of our original Director General. Last year we had no idea of the scale of events that would take place in 2011, both natural and human-led, producing the potential for huge changes in the way we [...]
30 Nov 2011
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
Is anybody out there? Are you all busy at COP17 and I’m shouting into a void? Or are some of you (like me) still at your desks? If you’re at COP17 and still have enough attention span to read this – thank you! – I’ll start with a few side events in case you haven’t [...]