Nearly 100 world leaders accepted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s invitation to participate in UN Climate Summit on Climate Change in New York on 22 September to mobilize political will and strengthen momentum for a fair, effective, and ambitious climate deal in Copenhagen this December. The UN summit not have been the spectacular breakthrough in the international [...]
14 Sep 2009
by REEEP South-East-Asia and Pacific - Category: REEEP, Regional News
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 [...]
Just an very short (edit on 3.7.) update from the second session of the Preparatory Commission of IRENA in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt): The Signatories designated Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, as the headquarters. The other candidates for the headquaters Bonn and Vienna withdrew their candidacies shortly before Abu Dhabi was [...]
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 [...]
30 Apr 2009
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
U.S.-hosted climate talks with the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters concluded on Tuesday with signs of progress but sizable differences as nations work toward a deal this year to fight global warming, writes Reuters. The two-day meeting, convened by U.S. President Barack Obama, was meant to pave the way for international talks in Copenhagen in [...]
27 Apr 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: reegle
It’s done ) We re-launched reegle today with its brandnew design and the new clean energy map. I will keep my blog-post short and simple as there is so much to do at the moment (everyone who ever organised a launch of a product knows what I am talking about ) What’s new on REEEP’s [...]