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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 [...]
Philippines: Renewable energy revolutionaries
04 Jun 2009
by Maaike Göbel, REEEP South East Asia and Pacific - Category: News
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 [...]
FAO – PISCES Case Studies highlight livelihoods benefits of small scale bioenergy initiatives in developing countries
08 Apr 2009
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: News
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 [...]
Best Practice: How to reduce a city’s energy consumption
30 Mar 2009
by Marianne Osterkorn (Director General REEEP) - Category: REEEP
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 [...]
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