22 Jul 2010
by REEEP South-East-Asia and Pacific - Category: Regional News
Find below the most interesting news from the last months from South East Asia and the Pacific on “Policy Developments”, “Project Developments “, “Access to Finance”, “Energy for All” and “Information and Tools”:
Policy Developments:
June Special Forum Energy Ministers Meeting on Pacific energy [...]
07 May 2010
by REEEP South-East-Asia and Pacific - Category: Regional News
Find below the most interesting news from the last months from South East Asia and the Pacific on “Policy Developments”, “Project Developments “, “Access to finance” and “Information and Tools”:
Policy Developments
Australian Government requested REEEP to develop an end-use energy efficiency strategy for the Pacific region
REEEP has developed a draft [...]
15 Mar 2010
by REEEP Southern Africa - Category: Regional News
South African company removes barriers to emissions reporting:
Despite the failure of the climate change conference in Copenhagen to achieve a binding treaty around carbon emission reductions, a South African company, sustainableIT has just developed TheCarbonReport.com, which now allows companies, irrespective of size, to measure and report on emissions through validated processes. See 25degrees.net for details.
DBSA [...]
10 Feb 2010
by REEEP South-East-Asia and Pacific - Category: Regional News
Find below the most interesting news from the last months from South East Asia and the Pacific:
Microfinance to promote renewable – Reducing fossil fuel dependence in the Pacific Islands
The Pacific Renewable Energy and Microfinance (PREM) Project is looking for a small victory – to wean Pacific Islanders off kerosene. Although many poor people are not [...]
08 Feb 2010
by REEEP Southern Africa - Category: Regional News
INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN: The Minister of Energy, Dipou Peters, has published the Integrated Resource Plan for energy. However, WWF-SA believes the plan has failed to take into account the most recent developments at Eskom (i.e. Eskom’s proposed increase tariff application and Eskom’s announcement that construction at Kusile has been postponed). See: http://www.fin24.com
CARBON FOOTPRINT: It is [...]
13 Jan 2010
by REEEP Southern Africa - Category: REEEP, Regional News
What happened recently in Southern Africa? Our Southern Africa Regional Secretariat put together a short list of the most important new from the region:
Electricity: Cabinet has approved the Integrated Resource Plan (IPR), formulated under the Electricity Regulation Act, and it will guide government on how it can meet the country’s electricity demands. see: http://www.buanews.gov.za
Air pollution: [...]
28 Oct 2009
by Maaike Göbel, REEEP South East Asia and Pacific - Category: REEEP, Regional News
Find below the most interesting news from the last month from South East Asia and the Pacific:
Clean Diesel Opportunities in Pacific Island Countries
ReEx Capital Oceania prepared a report on the promotion of clean diesel efficiency technologies and fuel switching to biofuels (CNO), including: Catalyst and other efficiency improvements technologies, [...]
14 Sep 2009
by REEEP South-East-Asia and Pacific - Category: REEEP, Regional News
Last week we (REEEP) decided to blog about news and relevant issues from the regions we cover (Southern Africa, South Asia, East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific, North America and Latin America and the Caribbean) on a regular basis. Our staff will report directly from the regional secretariats and therefore we hope to [...]