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As a result of the December plenary on the medium term energy strategy session the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) tells the EU that it must thrive to implement more ambitious CO2 reduction targets while at the same time be cautious regarding energy competitiveness in the immediate future. New models of energy use and [...]
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. [...]
A panel of five experts (Hans Jorgen Koch, Danish Energy Agency, Julien Pestiaux, European Climate Foundation, Paolo Frankl, IEA, Sven Teske, Greenpeace, Dr. Kirit Parikh, Planning Commission, India, Dr. Karsten Sach, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germany) led by Dr. Eric Martinot, (Institute for Sustainable Energy politics) discussed the future development and scenarios for RES [...]
The State Information Center in China was cited that a “newly developing energy industries” plan involving $739 billion in investment through 2020 has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and will be submitted to the State Council for approval. Officials announced that such energy industries include nuclear, wind, solar and biomass energy, [...]
E4SD offers free capacity building activity to promote policy dialogue
07 Jun 2010
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
Energy for Sustainable Development (E4SD) has just launched a new complementary capacity building activity, aimed at promoting active dialogue and exchange of ideas to respond to key challenges related to energy for sustainable development. Unlike the E4SD Online Course, the “Policy Dialogue” focuses on one specific topic at the time, which gets explored in greater [...]
Private sector initiatives turn India on to renewable energy
03 Mar 2010
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
With nearly half of its one billion citizens without a secure electricity supply, India faces many difficult social and environmental challenges as its economy develops in the new century. Currently over 40,000 villages and communities lack access to the national grid, suffering poor health, pollution, and poverty as a result. Innovative local renewable energy solutions [...]
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