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I have been following the climate summit in Durban from afar; no matter how I look at it and which source I take the news aren’t good. Even the conservative International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared a five year window for meeting any civilization-saving climate goals, and that should ring alarm bells in anybody’s head. [...]
REEEP is in the lucky position once again to give away money for projects thanks to the generous support of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID). This call targets energy access programmes for the poor in the Least Developed Countries (LDC’s). Considering we are approaching 2012 – I am NOT talking about the Mayan [...]
Doctor turned hydro developer demonstrates energy needs in health
19 Sep 2011
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
A micro-hydro company that is to supply electricity to health centres in remote areas of Rwanda is a reminder of how critical energy access is for achieving the Millennium Development Goals – as the 2015 deadline approaches. But before the acclaimed universal access can be met, small energy enterprises in developing countries must overcome significant [...]
It is a well established fact: where women and girls are less valued, they are at greater risk to suffer health problems and die from natural disasters than men. 141 countries show that gender differences in deaths from natural disasters are directly linked to women’s economic and social rights a study by the London School [...]
The low carbon factsheets published by AEA and DFID deal with several issues, like water scarcity, green jobs, mitigation and poverty reduction. I have fetched some interesting facts out of these sheets for you. A development towards a low carbon economy could overcome some water security shortages, but it could also challenge water security, for [...]
The UK Department for International Development (DIFD) has commissioned AEA, a REEEP partner organization, to produce various summary sheets about low carbon development that are very compact yet full of interesting information and thoughts. These fact sheets cover many issues related to a low-carbon future, this one deals with green jobs in a low carbon [...]
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