South African company removes barriers to emissions reporting:
Despite the failure of the climate change conference in Copenhagen to achieve a binding treaty around carbon emission reductions, a South African company, sustainableIT has just developed TheCarbonReport.com, which now allows companies, irrespective of size, to measure and report on emissions through validated processes. See 25degrees.net for details.
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We just issued a press release regarding the new reegle maps statistics and animation mode … I attached it below – would be great if some of the reegle blog readers pick that up and help us to increase the outreach of our clean energy search engine
Screenshots first … then the Press Release [...]

In the last decade hundreds of policies promoting renewable energies have been created worldwide. One of the greatest RE success stories is the worldwide deployment of feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) for electricity from renewable sources. Only ten years ago not more than 13 countries had enacted FiTs (see REN21 Global Status Report 2007) while today at least [...]

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 [...]

Our partners from Leonardo Energy are just starting a new Training course on “Concentrated Solar Thermal Power”.
Seville University holds a long tradition on Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSTP) research. Its students become key players at research centers and solar energy departments of companies. One of the “fathers” of CSTP in Spain, Manuel Silva, will be [...]

In February 2008, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Energy approved an ambitious plan to produce 20% of total electricity from renewable energies by 2020, including a 12% contribution from wind energy. This translates into more than 7,200 MW of grid-connected wind farms. The plan gives enough room for private investors to play a major role [...]

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 [...]

GVEP International investigates the potential of Jatropha to improve livelihoods in Zambia where 96% of rural households survive on less than 1 USD per day.
The Jatropha Curcas is a useful shrub. It is drought-resistant, requires less intensive management and can live for 50 years. It grows up to 5 metres in height and its leaves [...]

Yesterday a new feature called “energy statistics Europe” was launched on reegle. The aim of the underlying project was to create a tool to visualise renewable energy and relevant energy statistics on the reegle worldmap.
The first step is done, you now can overlay the map with several different statistics (source: Eurostat) including:

Share of renewables (per [...]

Our colleague Dr Doug Banks, engineer, scientist, REEEP project coordinator, and a remarkable figure in the South African renewable energy community, died in 2008. The Doug Banks Renewable Energy Vision Trust (DBREV Trust) was formed later that year as friends and colleagues set about creating a living memorial to perpetuate his passion and vision through [...]