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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Japan’s new prime minister-elect, Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, is going to fight climate change by backing deep emission cuts. As host of the Kyoto summit in 1997, Japan is keen to reposition itself at the forefront of the battle against climate change. Its emissions rose 2.3% in the year to March 2008, putting it 16% above [...]

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 [...]

Australia’s Government announced plans to build what it says is the world’s largest solar power station with an output of 1000 megawatts (that would be enough to power about 800,000 homes, based on Bloomberg calculations). Australians Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the government will invest A$1.4 billion ($1 billion) with industry in this project which [...]

This just in from REEEP Partner Organisation Eco Ltd, who are working with Practical Action to promote a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and PISCES (Policy Innovation Systems for Clean Energy Security), a five year Research Programme Consortium funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and co-ordinated by the [...]

Many developing countries, such as India, are hungry for energy and cannot get enough of it, because they are cultivating and creating industries. But efforts over the last 20 years to build new electricity generating capacity to supply this demand have not gone according to plan, and India for some years has been searching for [...]

After a very long first day with hundreds of interested people at our booth we just started the second day at Carbon Forum Asia. My impression is that the most important thing for most of the attendees here is to get practitioneers and decision makers on one table and discuss about possible solutions for the [...]

At the moment I am attending the Carbon Forum Asia 2008, which is a Trade Fair and Conference focusing on the opportunities presented by Carbon Markets and mechanisms in the Asia Pacific region. If you are attending this Forum, you can find the reegle booth at the exhibition hall 401 (A15).
What happened until now?
The conference [...]