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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 [...]
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. [...]
The fifth edition of the Sustainable Energy Regulators Network policy and regulation energy review has been released. This energy database outlines the latest policy frameworks, regulatory institutions and mechanisms relevant to renewable energy and energy efficiency, country by country in: The Caribbean, Central and Latin America; Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet [...]
Tuesday afternoon saw the commencement of the High-level Ministerial segment of the COP16 negotiations, opened by Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC‘s Executive Secretary. She stressed that the political stakes in the negotiations are very high; that the environmental stakes are very high; and that we have to honestly assess the effects of our actions on the most [...]
Rumour has it that the COP 16 President, Patricia Espinosa, invited all Ministers attending the COP16 negotiations to a nice dinner on the beach on the weekend. After the dinner, Ms Espinosa asked everyone to take off their shoes and walk with her on the beach. After a short stroll they arrived at a turtle [...]
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