Find below the most interesting news from the last months from South East Asia and the Pacific:
Microfinance to promote renewable – Reducing fossil fuel dependence in the Pacific Islands
The Pacific Renewable Energy and Microfinance (PREM) Project is looking for a small victory – to wean Pacific Islanders off kerosene. Although many poor people are not [...]

Tonga is a small island state in the  South Pacific Ocean. Its main exports include Cocnuts, Vanilla Beans, bananas and coffe beans, sold mainly to New Zealand and the U.S. In the past the country has tried to satisfy its energy needs by drilling for natural oil in regions that experts didn’t regard as suitable. [...]

What happened recently in Southern Africa? Our Southern Africa Regional Secretariat put together a short list of the most important new from the region:
Electricity: Cabinet has approved the Integrated Resource Plan (IPR), formulated under the Electricity Regulation Act, and it will guide government on how it can meet the country’s electricity demands. see: http://www.buanews.gov.za
Air pollution: [...]

CDM must work to promote low-carbon energy
REEEP position: classify all renewable energy and energy efficiency technology projects additional
There is little dispute that the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is in urgent need of reform. The entire concept of additionality, where a project must show that it yields an outcome that would not otherwise have happened, is [...]

In Copenhagen alongside the COP15, Dr. Osterkorn (Director General of REEEP) gave an interview describing REEEP’s role in the climate change environment.

Against the background of the slow progress at COP15, two panel discussions organised by ClimateOne and REEEP highlighted the importance of sub-national states, provinces, cities and private business in meeting the climate change challenge. During the two discussions which were recorded for public radio in the United States, moderator Greg Dalton quizzed Governor Schwarzenegger, Huang [...]

I am sure most of you will be in Copenhagen for the next one or two weeks, therefore I thought it might be useful to tell you where we (REEEP) will be and which events we plan to do. It would be great to see you in Copenhagen and have a chat with some reegle-blog [...]

Find below the most interesting news from the last month from South East Asia and the Pacific:
Clean Diesel Opportunities in Pacific Island Countries
ReEx Capital Oceania prepared a report on the promotion of clean diesel efficiency technologies and fuel switching to biofuels (CNO), including: Catalyst and other efficiency improvements technologies, [...]

Renewable energy provision in the developing world could receive a vital boost after the announcement of a new initiative which will look at how to stimulate investment in a low-carbon future for the world’s poorest people. Gareth Thomas, International Development Minister, announced the initiative on Wednesday 16 September in a speech at the Renewable Energy [...]

Just a short notice on a webinar that will take place next week (25th September, 3pm Vienna time) … Together with our partners from Leonardo Energy I will hold a webinar on “Navigating the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency information jungle”.
This webinar will briefly introduce the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and [...]