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The next South-Pacific Island I would like to bring some attention to is the Kingdom of Tonga. Again I much of this article is based on an article from Daphne Barbotte for the REEEP series for an energy encyclopedia. The constitutional monarchy in the South Pacific is populated by 120,898 people (July 2010), with 75% [...]
REEEP calls for project proposals in new €4.5 million funding cycle
14 Mar 2011
by Florian Bauer - Category: REEEP
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) has opened its 8th programme cycle with a call for proposed clean energy projects targeting Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa. The Partnership expects to fund approximately 30 projects with €4.5 million contributed by the Governments of the United Kingdom and Norway. The level of funding [...]
New studies released by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) provide a clear path for staying below the danger threshold of an average temperature rise of 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. Its content explains how the emission cuts that are necessary in order to avoid even higher temperatures in the future could be [...]
Generating solar power has never been prettier
18 Jan 2011
by Alexandra Parvulescu, REN21 Secretariat - Category: Contributed News
Solar trees as you can see above and below, are decorative ways of producing solar energy. The idea was first put into practice in Austria, a few years ago. In Europe, they are usually used for street light. They are able to provide enough light during the night-time even when the sun did not show [...]
Dr. Marianne Osterkorn, REEEP‘s Director General attended the Cancun conference and was recently quizzed on her thoughts about the outcome. Looking at the Cancun Agreements, would you rate COP16 as a success or failure? I’d say Cancun was a qualified success in that there was an agreement at all – albeit a fairly weak one. [...]
Following the worldwide trend of Open Government Data as well as Linked (Open) Data, REEEP launched in cooperation with our implementation partner “Semantic Web Company” the new reegle data portal today. On data.reegle.info you now can find data on stakeholders in the clean energy area as well as (energy) country profiles. This is just the [...]
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