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November
11-22, 2024
UNFCCC COP 29, - Baku, Azerbaijan
INFORSE is participating at the UN Climate COP29
with a Side Event (November 20, 2024) and Exhibition (first week)
Read More at: INFORSE
at
UNFCCC COP29 in Baku |
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NEW
!
• September
2024
Sustainable Energy News No. 88
From the contents: Sustainable Lifestyle - Sufficiency, Better Green Deal, News
from members in Europe, South Asia, East Africa, Americas, and UNFCCC COP29 Don't
Nuke the Climate
SEN 88 ( 4 MB),
16p - Link to more
issues |
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December
1 - 12, 2023 -
UNFCCC COP 28, - Dubai UAE
INFORSE is participating at the UN Climate COP28
Proceedings at: INFORSE
at
COP28
1-6 December,
2023 - EXHIBITION
IN BLUE ZONE
- Venue: Blue Zone, BOOTH NO: 1.
8 December, 2023. SIDE
EVENT IN THE BLUE ZONE
Time: 11:30-13:00, Room: SE room 1
Title: 100% Renewable & Local Solutions: Africa, South
Asia & Local Climate Resilience and Poverty Reduction.
Showcasing Community & Eco-Village Development: transition
to 100% renewables, climate mitigation, adaptation & resilience
with social co-benefits, income generation, food security, livelihoods,
gender. Online Catalogues. Examples: Participatory planning & training
in Africa, South Asia & around the world.
- Organisers: Global Ecovillage Network (GEN International), INSEDA
(INFORSE-South Asia), Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable energy, SusWatch Kenya
(INFORSE-EA). |
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December 18, 2023, 13.30 (IST)
Final SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL WEBINAR: Eco-Village Development - Our
Results, in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
Program and Presentations:
Webinar
EVD Results in South Asia, 18 December 2023 |
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December
18, 2023
3.00 - 3.30 pm (IST, India): 10.30 (CET)
Webinar: Reflections after COP28 by INFORSE
Download Presentations from INFORSE's web site:
Webinar
on COP28 outcome - 18 December 2023
Read: Presentation
(pdf) |
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December
13, 2023
The outcome has been analysed by INFORSE. Read on the
positive and negative sides:
COP28
The Outcome Analysis by INFORSE (pdf) |
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December
1 - 12, 2023
UNFCCC COP 28, - Dubai UAE
INFORSE is participating at the UN Climate COP28.
Proceedings and Read More at: INFORSE
at
COP28
EXHIBITION
IN BLUE ZONE
1-6 December, 2023 - Venue: Blue Zone, BOOTH NO: 1
SIDE EVENT IN THE
BLUE ZONE
Date: Friday, 8 December, 2023. Time: 11:30-13:00,
Room: SE Room 1
Title: 100% Renewable & Local Solutions: Africa, South
Asia & Local Climate Resilience and Poverty Reduction.
Showcasing Community & Eco-Village Development: transition
to 100% renewables, climate mitigation, adaptation & resilience
with social co-benefits, income generation, food security, livelihoods,
gender. Online Catalogues. Examples: Participatory planning & training
in Africa, South Asia & around the world.
- Organisers: Global Ecovillage Network (GEN International), INSEDA
(INFORSE-South Asia), Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable energy, SusWatch Kenya
(INFORSE-EA). |
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December
8, 2023
Publication: Impact
Assessment of
Eco-Village
Development (EVD)
Projects.
Project Report: Next Generation Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Eco-Village Development
in South Asia
Published
by the Eco-Village Development Project partners: INFORSE, INFORSE-SA,
CANSA, Grameen Shakti, INSEDA, CRT-N, IDEA, and DIB.
71
pp. 2023.
Download the full publication: pdf
file 2 MB
More on the EVD project at the INFORSE Asia's website: inforse.org/asia/EVD.htm
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November
2023
Sustainable Energy News issue No. 87
Articles include:
Eco-Village Development in South Asia
NGO Cooperation Projects' Results
INFORSE at UNFCCC COP28
Online/Offline Publications on Local Solutions in South Asia and East Africa
Green
Lifestyle, FULFILL-Sufficiency.eu Project, News from Europe
Download the
pdf from INFORSE - Direct
download: SEN
87 (pdf 3.5 MB) |
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October
4, 2023
South Asia REGIONAL WEBINAR:
Local Solutions
for Climate Adaptation Evidences for Policy Making
Eco-Village Development in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and
Sri Lanka,
The
webinar is being jointly organized by the Eco
Village Development project's partners: CANSA, INFORSE
South Asia, Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh, Center for Rural Technology
in Nepal, IDEA in Sri Lanka,
and INSEDA in India. The project is coordinated by DIB, Denmark,
and is funded by CISU, Denmark
Proceedings will
be available at:
CANSA's Web site: cansouthasia.net/local-solutions-for-climate-adaption-evidences-for-policy-making and
at NFORSE Asia's EVD website: inforse.org/asia/EVD.htm
More on the Project: ecovillagedevelopment.net and
inforse.org/asia/EVD
Look into
the EVD Database of
Solutions, Publications, Organisations, Images
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Launch
Publication: 30 August 2023
Local
Solutions Proposed for Climate Action & Development
and Policies to Promote & Scale-up Local Sustainable
Energy Solutions
Developed
by INFORSE Coordinators in Africa, Latin America, South Asia
and Europe.
Download: Full
Publication, 92 pp., (pdf, 7.9 MB)
Advocacy
material from the members online:
- Solar
Dryer by Mitraniketan in India (pdf, 2 pages) and
- Clean
cooking by PDAP in Bangladesh (pdf, 2 pages)
Read
more on the Project: www.inforse.org/synergies |
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Launch:
July 27, 2023.
Low-Carbon Climate Resilient Eco-village Development in South Asia - Bangladesh,
India, Nepal, Sri Lanka
by INFORSE, CANSA, Grameen Shakti, INSEDA, CRT-N,
IDEA.
52 pp. ISBN: 978-87-970130-9-0
Download the publication from Download the publication from: EVD
Publications or
pdf
file, 4.9 MB. |
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Thursday,
8 June 2023, at
16:45-18:00
UNFCCC SB58 Side Event, Bonn, Germany
+ LIVE online on UN Climate Channel
Room: & UN Climate Channel
Title:
100% Renewables, Local Climate Solutions
in East Africa, South Asia.
INFORSE-South
Asia members present the Online catalogue
on sustainable solutions in South
Asia.
See
Program
and Proceedings
at INFORSE's
side event
page |
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28
March 2023, at 2.00 PM to 3.30 PM (IST)
REGIONAL WEBINAR: Social Enterprise
Model of Local Solutions
Road to Sustainability
Social enterprise is increasingly seen as a route to deliver
products and services with social and environmental benefits
to vulnerable populations. There are several success stories
across South Asia of social enterprises as models.
Organised
by the Partners of the Eco-Village Development Project.
See: Event
Program and Proceedings
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December
22, 2022
REGIONAL
WEBINAR: Reflections after COP27 from South Asia:
Eco-Village Development, Climate Mitigation and Development
Get the story directly from the people who were there
More: Program
and Proceedings |
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October
17, 2022
REGIONAL WEBINAR: DIALOGUE on Eco-Village Development Achievements in South Asia
More: Program
and Proceedings |
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Sustainable
Energy News issue No. 86 - November 2022
Themes:
- 30 YEARS INFORSE Anniversary
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP27 in Egypt
- Catalogues: Local Solutions in East Africa,South Asia, Ukraine, Europe.
- Sufficiency - 100% Renewable Scenarios
Download from INFORSE's web site: Sustainable
Energy News
Direct download pdf 3 MB |
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November
12, 2022
South Asia Policy Brief to UNFCCC
COP27:
"Enhance
Climate Ambition and Global Stock take With Local Sustainable
Energy"
Download: Policy
Brief to UNFCCC COP27 (2 pages) |
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November
6 - 18, 2022
UNFCCC COP 27, - Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
INFORSE is participating at the UN Climate COP27 with several delegates in Egypt.
Read Proceedings at: INFORSE
at
COP27
SIDE
EVENT IN THE BLUE ZONE
Organised by INFORSE - INSEDA - SusWatch - SE
Date: November 12, 2021 - Time: 15:00-16:30
Venue Room: Memphis (Blue Zone)
EXHIBITION
IN BLUE ZONE
7-12 November,2022 - Venue: Blue Zone, BOOTH NO: 19
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- ONLINE
CATALOGUE in SOUTH ASIA:
--LOCAL
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS for Eco-village Development
--Link:
WWW.INFORSE.ORG/evd |
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August
31, 2022
REGIONAL WEBINAR: Launch of Online Database of local climate
Solutions for Eco-Village
Development in South Asia
ENTER THE DATABASE: www.inforse.org/evd
More: Invitation
and Program (pdf)
Download: Proceedings |
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June
11, 2022
UNFCCC SB 56 SIDE EVENT: INFORSE - SusWatch - NFRE - SE
Venue: Berlin Room, Bonn,
Germany
Title:
Local Climate, Sustainable Energy Solutions in GST, 100% RE, Sufficiency: East
Africa,
South Asia, Europe.
From INFORSE-South
Asia, the Eco-Village Development Project was presented by INFORSE South Asia
Coordinator,
INSEDA.
See
more:
Proceedings:
Proceedings
and Program at INFORSE
at
UNFCCC
SB56
Download
South Asia Presentation: Local
climate and energy solutions in Eco-village development in South Asia (India,
Bangladesh, Nepal Sri Lanka). and online Database and Policy Brief by Sanjiv
Nathan, INSEDA,
INFORSE-South Asia, India (virtual) (pdf,
2.5 MB)
Download Policy
Brief: "Enhance
Climate Ambition
and Global Stocktake With Local Sustainable Energy" - South
Asia Policy Brief to UNFCCC
SB 56 (2 pages)
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February
28, 2022
-
INFORSE's Submission to UNFCCC on Global Stock Take |
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November
19, 2021
INFORSE-South Asia with INFORSE
on COP26 Outcome (pdf) |
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November
2021
INFORSE joined 460+ NGOs on a statement for UNFCCC COP26 "Don't
Nuke the Climate"
Read & Join: dont-nuke-the-climate.org/cop-26-statement
INFORSE joined Global 100 % Renewables
Platform Declaration to UNFCCC COP26
The Earlier the Better, Let’s Speed it Up! -
Nuclear Energy is NOT an Alternative! It is unsafe, expensive, and slow.
Read:
www.global100re.org/index.php/2021/11/02/cop26-declaration |
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MEET
US! SEE
PROCEEDINGS:
SIDE
EVENT: INFORSE - INSEDA - SusWatch - SE
Date: November 5, 2021 - Time:
11:30-12:45 GMT
Venue: Loch Lomond
Auditorium, Glasgow, UK
Title:
Local Climate Solutions & Eco-Village Development,
100% RE in NDCs, East Africa, South Asia, Europe
Policy proposals for
local solutions in NDCs & Global Stocktake. Launch catalogues
of climate solutions in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda),
eco-village development in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal,
Sri Lanka), for energy access & gender equality, 100 %
renewables: Europe, Kenya, Uganda.
Read
Proceedings link to video:www.inforse.org/cop26.php3
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/634459607557416
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Sustainable
Energy News issue No. 85 - November 2021
News from INFORSE side event at
UNFCCC COP26, Eco-Village Development in South Asia (EVD)
Local Solutions in East Africa,
Sufficiency, 100% Renewables in Europe
Download from: INFORSE and
Direct download
SEN85 pdf 2.3 MB. |
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• December
2020
Sustainable Energy News: Issue No. 84
- South Asia: New
Project on Eco-Village Development in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
- East Africa: Online Catalogue of Local Sustainable Solutions http://localsolutions.inforse.org/
- Europe: Energy Sufficiency; Decorbanising European Heating;
Power of Community Energy; ZeroCarbonBritain Hub; Community Energy
in Ukraine; CSOs Call for Sustainable Energy Future in Ukraine and
Belarus
Download from: INFORSE and
Direct download pdf 1.5
MB |
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• 26
November, 2020
INFORSE at UNFCCC CD2020 Virtual
Title: Local Climate & Sustainable Energy Solutions in East Africa Catalogue,
South
Asia Eco-Village Development ToT, 100% Renewables
Download presentations from:
INFORSE
Side
Event at UNCD2020. |
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July
16, 2020
Launch of Eco-Village Development Feasibility Studies in new Climate Zones
in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh
Download
Executive Summaries: EVD
publications |
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July
15, 2020
UN HLPF 2020 INFORSE Side Event & Exhibition
Title:
Local Climate & Sustainable Energy Solutions, South Asia,
East Africa, Eco-Village Development, 100% Renewables
Download presentations: INFORSE
at HLPF2020
and at the EVD Project. |
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• December
2-13, 2019
UNFCCC COP25, Madrid, Spain (moved from Chile)
INFORSE-South Asia
participates with side event (Dec. 13) and exhibition (Dec.
9-10).
Read more: INFORSE UNFCCC
COP25 and at the EVD Project.
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• December
2019
Sustainable Energy News: Issue No. 83
Inside:
• Editorial: COP25: Step Up Reductions and Support, also for Loss & Damage
• News from South
Asia: Eco-Village Development in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
Download pdf version
and contents. |
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• September
20, 2019
Global Climate Strike
Join, millions of climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to
the age of fossil fuels. Our house is on fire — let’s act
like it. We demand climate justice for everyone.
INFORSE's website joined with a banner.
More: ClimateStrike.net & Join
GlobalClimateStrike.net
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• September
23, 2019
UN Climate Action Summit, New York
Just Before the UN General Assembly
More:
- UN
Climate Action Summit 2019 and
-
UN Climate Action Now |
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• June
18-19, 2019 - EDD, Brussels
European Development Days
Event where INFORSE is participating:
• June
19, 2019 at 14:45 to 16:00
Rise Of The Eco Village - How community-based design and supportive technologies
are creating new models for equality and sustainability
Place: B1, Brainstorming lab
Organised by and with inputs from: CTCN, UNIDO, UNEP, UNFCCC, and REDES,
Grobund, and INFORSE. INFORSE will present the Eco-Village
Development in South Asia
See Program at EDD2019. |
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Available
Online: Socio-Technical Manual for Training of Trainers
(ToT) Manual on Eco-Village Development in South Asia
130 pages, 2018.
Launch
in English.
Download
from EVD
ToT Manual Contents website
Available
in English, Hindi, Bangla, Nepali, Sinhala.
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INFORSE
- ENDA - INSEDA at UNFCCC COP24
Katowice, Poland
Side Event: December 7, 2018, 15.00-16.30, Room:
Warmia
Exhibition: December 3-14, 2018
More: Side
Event and Exhibition
Read: Short
Review: What was decided at COP24 (pdf)
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October
31, 2018
Newsletter - Issue No. 2.
Published by INFORSE South Asia / INSEDA
News from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Including: Eco-Village
Development (EVD) Project, Inputs to the Talanoa Dialogue, INFORSE South
Asia network meeting. Download Newsletter
16 pp. (pdf file, 4.9 MB)
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October
31, 2018
Launch of White Paper: Mitigation and Adaptation with Eco-Village Development
(EVD) Solutions. 2nd edition 2018.
Download: Full
Report, 45 pp. (pdf, 1 MB) and Summary,
4 pp. (pdf, 1 MB).
Read more: EVD
Project. |
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• September
8, 2018
People's Climate March
On
7 continents, in 95 countries, with 900+ actions, people worldwide
demanded real climate action from their local leaders.
More: riseforclimate.org - peoplesclimate.org - 350.org |
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• August
27-31, 2018
Kandy, Sri Lanka
Final Eco-Village Development (EVD) Project Meeting and Field Tour
By EVD Project Partners: IDEA (Sri Lanka), CRT (Nepal), Grameen Shakti
(Bangladesh), INSEDA (India), DIB (Denmark), CANSA, and INFORSE. |
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• August
30, 2018
Kandy, Sri Lanka
INFORSE-South Asia Coordination Meeting
By INFORSE-South Asia Coordinator and Focal Points:
INSEDA (India), IDEA (Sri Lanka), CRT (Nepal), Grameen Shakti
(Bangladesh). |
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• July
18, 2018 - The UN
High Level Political Forum 2018 made a Ministerial
Declaration that is calling for actions for sustainable
energy.
Read the UN
Declaration on Sustainable Energy (pdf). |
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• 30
April to 10 May 2018
Bonn, Germany
UNFCCC -
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -
SBI 48
Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific
and Technological Advice (SBSTA)
• April
30-May 10, 2018
INFORSE
- SUSWATCH - INSEDA, Exhibition
• May
1, 2018
INFORSE - SUSWATCH - INSEDA Side Event
Launch of Publication: White Paper: Eco-Village Development Mitigation
and Adaptation.
Launch of UNFCCC Policy Brief
• May
6, 2018
Talanoa Dialogue: Story from Villages in South Asia
Read more at
- INFORSE
at SB48 and
-
EVD Project.
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• April
2018
Sustainable Energy News: Issue No. 82
Inside:
Editorial: Climate Change & Poverty: Problems to Be Solved
• 3-page article on Eco-Village Development in South Asia: Nepal, India,
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
Download the whole
issue: (pdf,
1.7 MB)
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• 28-30
March, 2018
5th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD)
Bangkok, Thailand.
Organised by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
Regional preparatory event for the high-level political forum on sustainable
development that will be held under the auspices of the UN ECOSOC in New
York in July 2018.
The event was focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
6, 7, 11, 12, 15 and 17.
On the Parallel Session on SDG7 (energy), there was a presentation of the
Eco-Village Development Concept and Project by Sohel Ahmed, Grameen Shakti,
Bangladesh.
Read more on the EVD Project
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• March
9, 2018
India: Dialogue Meeting on Eco Village Development
on Block Level, Chamba, Uttarakhand.
Read more on the EVD Project,
and at INSEDA
on EVD. |
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• March
7, 2018
Nepal: Interaction workshop with Micro Finance Institutions for upscaling
Eco Village Development (EVD) Concept at Dhulikhel.
Read more on the EVD Project and CRT
Nepal on EVD |
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• February 12-13, 2018
Regional Event: "Next Steps Towards Scaling Up of Eco-Village Development
Solutions, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• February
14-16, 2018
Upscaling EVD Project Meeting, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Read more on the EVD
Project.
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• January
31, 2018
Eco Village Development in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
Published by INFORSE-South Asia /INSEDA.
Download: Newsletter
Issue #1 (18 pp. pdf 3.9 MB) or from INSEDA's
website as pdf.
Read more on the EVD Project.
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• December
8-12, 2017
Training of Trainers (ToT) programme on Sustainable Village Development
planning for development officers in Matale, Sri Lanka.
Organised by IDEA, Sri Lanka Linking Eco Village Development activities
with Gramashakthi People's movement together with Matale District Secretariat.
Read more on the EVD Project and at IDEA's EVD2 and EVD1 Project
website. |
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• November
6-17, 2017, Bonn, Germany
UNFCCC COP23
• November
9: Side Event with INFORSE-South Asia participation
Read more: INFORSE at COP23 and EVD
Project
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• November
9, 2017
Launch
of Report: Greenhouse Emission Reduction Potential of Eco-Village
Development (EVD) Solutions in South Asia
Download
the Report, From November 9, 2017: (pdf
file, 36 pages, 1.6 MB)
Read more on the EVD
Project
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• November
2017
New Issue of Sustainable Energy News
No. 81: incl. 3-page article on the EVD project in South Asia (pdf,
1.7 MB) |
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• July
31, 2017
Publication: Eco-Village Development
as Climate Solution: Proposals
from South Asia
Now available also in Hindi, Nepalese, Bangla, and
Sinhala !
Link to Publication's Contents, where
you can also download the 60-page Publication in English, Hindi, Nepalese, Bangla, and
Sinhala.
Read
more on the EVD Project
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• July
31, 2017
New
Issue of Sustainable Energy News
No. 80: Editorial & 6-page theme on Eco-Village Development in South
Asia
Download the whole issue: (pdf,
1.7 MB) |
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• June-September,
2017
National & District Dialogue meetings in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka,
and Bangladesh
Read
more on the EVD Project
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• June,
2017
Final and Kick Off Project Meetings on Eco Village Development in South
Asia, Nepal
Read
more on the EVD Project |
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June
6, 2017 - 25-YEAR INFORSE ANNIVERSARY
INFORSE
was formed in Rio at the NGO Global Forum parallel to the "Earth
Summit" UNCED Conference 25 years ago on June 4, 1992.
We are celebrating this during the year with several
events including events at COP23 in November, 2017.
Read article on the creation of the network in "Soft
Energy Worldwide" in 1992.
The founding people and organisations were: Hans Bjerregaard and Gunnar
Boye Olesen (OVE, Denmark), Adam Gula (PKE, Poland), Emilio Lebre la
Rovera (IED, Brazil), Martin P. Beaulieu (REDES, Uruguay), Waldo Bustamente
(Tekhne, Chile), Howard Geller (ACEEE, USA), Alden Meyer (UCS, USA); Stephen
Karekezi (FWD, Kenya), Youba Sokona (ENDA, Senegal), Raymond Myles (AFPRO,
India), Benjamin Gertes (PCAT, Phillipines).
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• May
29 2017
INFORSE is DEEPLY CONCERNED on the latest development of the Africa Renewable
Energy Initiative (AREI)
Letter of Complaint over the EU Involvement of the Africa Renewable Energy
Initiative and the Validation of Projects without Due Screening
Read: INFORSE
Coordinators' letter on May 29, 2017, 2 pages, pdf file. |
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• 15
May, 2017
Launch
of Policy Brief at UNFCCC SBI46, Bonn, Germany
NDCs
and Global Stocktake Must Recognise Local Solutions & Reductions
of Poverty
Download
the Policy
Brief (pdf file)
Read on the Good Practices in the Publication |
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• 7-17
November, 2016
INFORSE at UNFCCC COP22, Morocco in the Blue Zone:
Mini
SIDE EVENT: November 8, 2016
Time:
12.00-13.00. Venue: Climate Change Studio (COP22 Blue
Zone)
Title:
Eco Village Development - A Low-Carbon Adaptation and
Mitigation Strategy for Development in South Asia.
SIDE
EVENT: November 11, 2016
Time: 16:45-18:15 Room: Mediterranean
Title: Improving NDCs: Ecovillage
Development, Energy Access, & Zero Carbon
Societies in Africa, Asia & EU
EXHIBITION:
November 7-18, 2016 (2
weeks)
Read Program, Proceedings:
INFORSE South Asia Eco-Village Development Project
presented at COP22 and INFORSE
at COP22
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• 17-19
October, 2016
The 5th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 18, October, 2016
The Eco-Village Development Concept presented by Project Partners at the
5th APAN Conference's
Parallel Session: “Coordinating Policy Initiatives for Adaptation'
in South Asia”, Sri Lanka
Eco-Village Development Concept will be presented at a parallel session.
Read more on the EVD Project |
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• 28
June, 2016
Event on Eco-Village Development (EVD) in India:
National Dialogue Meeting in Dehradun, Uttarakhand State
More information at the co-organisers: INSEDA, WAFD and CANSA as
well at the EVD Project. |
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• 20
May, 2016
UNFCCC -
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -
SB 44
INFORSE SIDE EVENT,
Bonn, Germany
Time: 16:45 - 18:15, Room: Berlin
Title: South Asian Eco-Village Solutions in NDCs and
Climate Finance: Renewable Energy, Organic Farming
Proceedings are at:
- EVD Project or
- INFORSE
at UNFCCC SB 44.
Updated
Eco Village Development (EVD) Publication and Policy
Brief are at EVD
Project.
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• 20
May, 2016
Launch: Updated Eco-Village
Development (EVD) Publication and Policy Brief -
Both Available NOW !!
-_ Publication:
Eco-Village Development as Climate Solution -
__Proposals
from South Asia -
__Second
Edition published: May 2016
__Link
to Publication's
Contents
__Download:
Final (3rd) edition - August 2016: ( pdf
file, 60 pages, 3.8 MB)
-_ Policy
Brief - Updated
on May 20, 2016 ( pdf
file, 3 pages, 305 kB) |
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• 20
May, 2016
Theme in in Sustainable Energy News, Issue no. 78:
Eco-Village Development as Climate Solutions in South Asia: Nepal, India,
Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka
Download the 4-page theme article: (EVD
4-page article)
Download the full issue from INFORSE's
web site Sustainable
Energy News. |
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• 9
May, 2016
Seminar and Dialogue Meeting on Eco-Village Development in Nepal
Read more:
CRT-Nepal and
the Eco-Village
Development Project (EVD). |
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• 31
March, 2016
Pro-poor Low Carbon Development Strategies
in South Asia - Regional Knowledge Sharing Workshop
in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Read more:
Low Carbon Development (LCD) Project and CAN
South Asia.
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December
12, 2015 - UNFCCC COP21 Agreement by 195 states is a reality
!
"Welcome to a New World of "Paris" Climate Action"
.. Important step forward, even though it is NOT perfect ...
by Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE
Read the evaluation of the Agreement: here. |
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• December
2015 -
Paris, France
UNFCCC COP21
NGOs from INFORSE-Asia
participated as exhibitors,
civil society side event organisers,
and observers of the negotiation
at the COP21 Conference together
with other INFORSE organisations.
December 3, 2015 -
INFORSE Side Event in
the Blue Zone
Title:
Fair Low/Zero
Carbon & 100%
RE Strategies,
South & North
Countries,
Villages,
incl Women
Initiatives
Speakers from INFORSE South Asia: INSEDA/WAFD India, Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh,
CRT, Nepal, IDEA, Sri Lanka, AIWC, India
December 8, 2015 - INFORSE
Side Event at the Climate Generations areas organised by the French
Government
Title: Promoting Pro-Poor Low Carbon Development
Pathways with Gender Focus
Speakers from INFORSE South Asia: AIWC, India on Gender Focus
Read more:
- EVD Project's web site including Presentations of the
EVD Project
- INFORSE at COP21
- Proceedings of all events |
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• December
3, 2015
POLCY BRIEF:
Eco-village Development as Climate Solution, Proposals from South Asia
Download: Eco-Village
Development (EVD) Policy Brief to UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, December 2015 ( 6-page
pdf, 0.5 MB)
PUBLICATION:
Launch of the first edition of the Eco-Village Development Concept
- Read more and
Download the Updated Publication (May 2016) from the Eco-Village
Development (EVD) Project's web site
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• December
2, 2015
POLICY BRIEF:
Pro-Poor, Low-Carbon Development Recommendations in South Asia, Africa, & Latin
America
Download: Low
Carbon Development (LCD) Policy Brief to UNFCCC COP21
in Paris, December 2015 (8-page pdf, 0.5 MB)
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• December
2015
Sustainable
Energy News: Issue No.
77
Inside:
• Climate COP21 - Can it Break the Deadlock?
Themes:
• Low-Carbon Strategies
in Africa and South Asia (3 pages)
• Eco-Village
Development in South Asia (3-pages)
Download
pdf version and contents.
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• August
20, 2015:
From Mohammad
Mahmodul Hasan (Grameen Shakti):
Success on Advocacy: Grameen Shakti is going to
get the CDM fund as recognized of it Solar Home System dissemination
all over Bangladesh. It has taken almost 2 years to the success. Around
182,000 CER has been issued in favor of Grameen Shakti for replacing
fossil fuel kerosene and sustainable development for low-carbon future.
Read more: UNFCCC
CDM, article "Growing
Solar Home System Earns Bangladesh UN fund; First in the World" in
a leading Daily Newspaper in Bangladesh, EVD Cooperation
Project on Advocacy.
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Date:
July - November 2015
"Low-Carbon Development Strategies with Focus on Women and Poverty Reduction
in India"
Five workshops organised by AIWC in cooperation with CANSA and INFORSE-South
Asia:
• Kolkata July 14, 2015
• Dehradun: July 16, 2015
• Rajkot: August 2, 2015
• Visakhapatnam: September 15, 2015
• Pondicherry: November 3, 2015
Read more: Report
at AIWC web site ( pdf
file) and Low
Carbon Development (LCD) Project. |
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• July
15, 2015 - Matale,
Sri Lanka
Low-Carbon
Eco-Village Development as Solution for Climate Change Advocacy
Event
Read more: Proceedings (pdf
file 2.5 MB),and Projects on Eco-Village development (EVD) and
Low Carbon Strategies Development (LCD). |
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• 10
June 2015
INFORSE - UNFCCC
Side Event in Bonn - SBI
42 - Pre Conference to
COP21
Time:
18:30 - 20:00,
Place: Room: Bonn
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Title:
Rural Development
with Low Carbon,
Eco-Village Solutions
in South Asia.
The Side Event was organised by NGO Partners in South Asia in the framework
of the new EVD Project in 2015-2017.
The NGO partners include the INFORSE members: CRT (Nepal), IDEA (Sri
Lanka), Grameen Shakti (Bangladesh), INSEDA, AIWC, WAFD (India), DIB
(Denmark), and CAN-South Asia.
Review and Proceedings:
- Side
Event on Eco-Village Development (EVD) on June 10, 2015
- Policy Brief (June 10, 2014): "Eco-village
Development as Climate Solution" (4-page
pdf, 0.2 MB)
Read more:
- Project: Advocacy on the Eco-Village Development
- INFORSE's
Side Events at SBI 42 in Bonn
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• April
2015
Kick-off
Project Meeting and Seminar
on the Advocacy on Sustainable
Village Development Project
in India.
Read more: Eco-Village Development (EVD) Project's web
site. |
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• January
2015
NEW
PROJECT Started in South Asia
Project Title: Evidence Based, Low Carbon, Pro-Poor Advocacy on Sustainable
Eco-Village Development (EVD).
The participating INFORSE members are: INFORSE
South Asia Coordinator INSEDA (India) and INFORSE national focal points
as CRT (Nepal), IDEA (Sri Lanka), Grameen Shakti (Bangladesh), AIWC, WAFD
(India), and DIB (Denmark),which is Coordinator. Among
the NGO Project Partners is CAN-South Asia.
Read more on the Project here. |
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• 2014
- 2016:
Launch Project: Low-Carbon Strategies - NGO Networks' Cooperation Project in
East & West Africa, South Asia and Latin America.
Read more: Promoting Pro-Poor Low-Carbon
Development Strategies |
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• December
2014
Update Publication: "Combining Energy Access and Climate Protection"
- How energy can be provided sustainable, reducing emissions and increasing
well being
Update: Two cases added from Nepal and Bangladesh.
Cases in Asia and Africa. Compiled by the INFORSE members.
First launched at UNFCCC
COP19 in Poland, 2013, and at June 2014 in Bonn.
Publication is one
of the results of the "Southern
Voices on Climate Change" Project.
Read: Brochure
with Contents and Contacts (pdf, 4-page)
Download the full text as pdf from Publication.
Read more: INFORSE-Asia involvement of the Southern
Voices Project
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• 30
October, 2014 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Seminar: Southern Voices on Climate Change Program (2011-2014)
Learning from Southern Voices: How to make advocacy on climate change
more effective.
Organizers: Consortium including CARE-Denmark (lead agency), Sustainable
Energy Denmark (in cooperation with INFORSE), IBIS, DanChurchAid, CAN,
and IIED.
Read
more:
- Program: Seminar,
October 30, 2014
- Publication: Climate
Change Advocacy Toolkit
- INFORSE-Asia at Southern Voices on Climate
Change in Asia.
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In
Bangladesh, a video was made to hear the "southern
voices" of happy solar home users (PV) providing electricity
to lamps, television and poultry shed.
The video includes 2 interviews made with solar home system users.
The video was made Grameen Shakti in the framework of the Southern Voices
Project.
There is English subtitle.
Link to the video |
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• 4
June, 2014 - Bonn, Germany
UN Climate Change COP Pre-Conference to COP19.
* Launch of Publication: "Combining Energy Access and Climate Protection"
- How energy can be provided sustainable, reducing emissions and increasing
well being
Cases in Asia and Africa. Compiled by the INFORSE members.
The Draft was Launched at UNFCCC
COP19 in Poland, 2013.
Read: Leaflet
Front page and Contents (pdf, 2-page)
Download the full text as pdf from Publication (updated
December 2014).
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• May
- June, 2014 "Southern Voices on Climate Change" regional
NGO Meetings and INFORSE-South Asia Meetings in Nepal, and
Sri Lanka.
Contact: INFORSE-South Asia c/o INSEDA (India), and National focal
points:
AIWC (India), CRT (Nepal), IDEA (Sri Lanka). |
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_ May
2, 2014
_ National and Networking
Meeting in Nepal organised by CRT Nepal |
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_ April
- July 2014
_ National Networking
Meetings and Workshops in India
_ July
27-28, 2014: organised by INSEDA
_ May
20, 2014: organised by AIWC
_ April
15, 2014: organised by WAFD |
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_ May
14 and July 12, 2014
_ National Networking
Meetings in Bangladesh organised by Grameen Shakti.
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_ July
18-19, 2013
_ Regional Networking
Meeting in Sri Lanka |
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• November,
2013 - Warsaw, Poland
INFORSE-Asia participated at UNFCCC
COP 19.
EXHIBITION: INFORSE-AIWC, 11-22 November
2013,
SIDE EVENT: INFORSE-HELIO-AIWC
18 November, 2013, Time: 16.45-18.15
Title: "New Solutions of Climate Mitigation in South & North;
NGO Voices; Technology Mechanism". Presentations from INFORSE-South
Asia:
- Raymond Myles (INSEDA/INFORSE South Asia Coordinator),
- Usha Nair (AIWC), Raj Kalyani (AIWC), Zareen Myles (WAFD).
See Proceedings, Pictures at INFORSE-AIWC-HELIO
Side Event.
INFORSE has Consultative status at the UNFCCC and
ECOSOC.
Read on INFORSE-Asia's participation on previous UN
Conferences. |
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• 19
November, 2013, Warsaw Poland
Side Event: Southern Advocacy and Campaign Experiences: Including the Southern
Voices on Climate Change Program, where INFORSE Asia is active.
Read more on SouthernVoices.net: SV
COP19 Side Event
• 7-9
November, 2013, Warsaw, Poland
Pre-COP19 International
Training Workshop: Advocacy & Campaign Strategies to
Counter Climate Change.
Organised by the Southern Voices on Climate Change Project.
Participant from INFORSE-Asia: Geeta Sinha (AIWC).
Read more on SouthernVoices.net: SV
Pre-COP19 Workshop |
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• 18
November, 2013
Launch of Publication
"Combining Energy Access and Climate Protection"
- How energy can be provided with sustainable energy, reducing emissions
and increasing well being"
Cases in Asia and Africa
Compiled by the INFORSE members Draft Launched at UNFCCC
COP19.
Read Contents
(1 page, pdf)
Final Version will be Online in
June 2014
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• 2013
Reader: Gender Climate and Energy 2001-2012
Compilation of Articles on Gender in Sustainable Energy
News. The articles cover several activities in INFORSE South
Asia.
Link to the Reader is under the Theme
Gender.
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• 2012
Publication "Energy Access Cases in Asia and Africa"
Compiled by the INFORSE members
(Online) |
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• 2012
- 2014
The "Southern
Voices" on Climate Change Capacity Building
Programme continues with Phase 2.
The capacity building of INFORSE-South Asia is
coordinated by VedvarendeEnergi - a Danish Member of
the Program's Consortium and the INFORSE-South Asia
Coordinator (INSEDA) and INFORSE members in the region. |
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• November-December
2012, Doha, Qatar
INFORSE-Asia participated at UNFCCC
COP 18.
INFORSE participation included: Exhibition and Side Event
Side Event on December 5, 2012
Title: "New
Solutions of Climate Mitigation in South & North; NGO Voices;
Technology Mechanism"
Presentations from INFORSE-South Asia:
- Raymond Myles (INSEDA/INFORSE South Asia Coordinator), Usha Nair (AIWC),
Zareen Myles (WAFD).
See Proceedings, Pictures at INFORSE-HELIO
Side Event.
INFORSE has Consultative status
at the UNFCCC and ECOSOC.
Read on INFORSE-Asia's participation on previous UN
Conferences.
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• 21-23
November 2012, Doha Qatar
Pre-COP18 International Training Workshop:
Climate Change Advocacy
Organised by the Southern Voices on Climate Change Project.
Participant from INFORSE-Asia: Usha Nair (AIWC)
Read more on SouthernVoices.net: SV
Pre-COP18 Workshop |
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• August,
2013
South Asian level Regional Workshop of the Southern Voices Phase II:
- Capacity building on Climate Change on August 21, 2013 at New Delhi,
India
- Annual Knowledge Sharing and Learning on August 22 and 23, 2103 Workshop
at Agra, India.
INFORSE-South Asia members made represented included: AIWC, INSEDA, WAFD
from India; CRT from Nepal, IDEA Sri Lanka, Grameen Shakti from Bangladesh.
Pictures (1
page, pdf file, 250 kB) |
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• 20
- 22 June, 2012, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio+20, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)
Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Read: INFORSE
at Rio+20 (UNCSD) |
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• 21
May, 2012, Bonn Germany
New report by the Southern Voices programme, involving INFORSE, Climate
Action Network, CLACC and other networks: Report
Reveals Key Role for Civil Society in Policymaking in a Changing Climate.
Download the Report from the Project's web site: www.southernvoices.net.
Press Release: pdf
file (21 kB)
Read more: INFORSE at the
Southern Voices Project. |
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• January
17 & 18, 2012, India
INFORSE - South Asia Regional Meeting
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• November
28 - December 9, 2011, Durban, South Africa
INFORSE
participated as NGO observer at UNFCCC COP17.
INFORSE participation included:
Exhibition and a Side Event on December 2, 2011. Several INFORSE-Asia members
participated (e.g. INSEDA, WAFD, and AIWC from India).
See more at INFORSE
at COP17 |
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• November
1-2, 2011
INFORSE South Asia Regional Workshop
See article on the workshop in Sustainable
Energy News No. 72:
"A Vehicle for Cooperation: INFORSE Regional Workshop", November 1-2,
2011, New Delhi, India, page 7.
1-page
article (pdf file, 0.8 MB) |
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• November-December
2011
Publishing Posters on climate change
and mitigation by implementation of energy renewable technologies. The
posters were prepared, keeping member NGOs in view, and it was presented
at the Regional Workshop and they were exhibited at the UNFCCC COP17 Conference. (pdf
file, 1.0 MB) |
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News
from INFORSE South Asia:
- October 10, 2011 - INFORSE India National
Workshop
- September 29, 2011 - INFORSE India National Workshop
- August 3, 2011, INFORSE Coordination Meeting in Nepal |
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• Jan
2011 - June 2012
INFORSE
Participates in the "Southern
Voices" on Climate Change capacity building
programme with focus on South Asian and African INFORSE
regions and NGOs |
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• 29
November - 10 December, 2010
INFORSE participated as NGO observer
at the UNFCCC COP16, Cancun, Mexico.
Among the
INFORSE members, the delegates were:
- Emil Bedi, INFORSE-Europe Coordinator /FAE, Slovakia
- Raymond Myles, INFORSE-South Asia Coordinator /INSEDA, India
- Secou Sarr, ENDA, INFORSE-Africa Coordinator
- Pierre Dembele, Mali Folkecenter / HELIO International
- GERES, France
Read more at INFORSE-Europe's
website. |
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• 3
December, 2010
Launch of a new NGO project - Southern Voices Capacity Building Programme.
The 2011-2012 Southern Voices programme was coordinated
by CARE Denmark and was funded by DANIDA. INFORSE-Asia participated.
Among the involved INFORSE organisations were: From Asia: INSEDA,
India; From Europe: The Danish Organisation for Sustainable
Energy (VE); From Africa: ENDA and Mali Folkecenter.
Read more about the new Project: Southern
Voices on Climate Change.
GROUP
PICTURE:
-
Top from left: William
Chadza, CEPA, Civil Society Network on Climate
Change, Malawi; Boubakar Fall, CLACC fellow,
ENDA, Senegal; Emmanuel Seck, CAN West Africa,
ENDA, Senegal; Hannah Reid, IIED; Ange David
Baime, JVE, Ivory Coast, member of WANET CSD;
Sherpard Zvigadza, CLACC fellow, ZERO, Zimbabwe;
Poul Erik Lauridsen, CARE Denmark; Pierre Dembele,
WANET CSD, Mali Folkecenter, Mali; Maiga Mahamadou
Farga, CLACC Fellow, Amade Pelcode, Mali; Mónica
Lópes Baltodano, Suswatch, Nicaragua.
- Bottom
from left: Moussa
Na Abou Mamouda, AfricaAdapt, ENDA, Senegal
(previous CLACC Fellow); Sanjay Vashist,
CAN South Asia; Charles Meschack, Tanzania
Forest Conservation Group, member of
Accra Caucus on REDD and Forests; Achala
Chandani, CLACC Fellow Bangladesh, Caritas
Bangladesh; Taukei Kitara, TuCAN, Tuvalu;
Vivian Lanuza, Suswatch, Guatemala, Fundacion
Solar; Raymond Myles, INFORSE South Asia,
Inseda, India; Marstella Jack, CAN Micronesia;
Maria Isabel Olazabal, Ibis Central America;
Peter With, Coordinator, Southern Voices
Capacity Building Programme; Mahima Njaidi,
Mjumita Forest Network, Tanzania; Raja
Jarrah, Care Tanzania, Accra Caucus;
Betty, Mjumita Forest Network, Tanzania;
Oumar Tankari, Care Niger; Maïmouna
Konaré, FEMNET Mali, AWLAE; Elvin
Nyakura, CLACC Fellow Kenya, ACTS.
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• December
7-18, 2009
INFORSE participated as NGO observer
at UNFCCC COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark. INFORSE also
had an exhibition stall and a side event both at the
Bella Center and at the Klimaforum at the DGI-Center.
From the INFORSE-Asia, Coordinators and National Focal points participated:
INSEDA (India), WACF (India), CRT (Nepal), and ISEP (Japan).
Read more on the INFORSE-Asia participation at COP15:
- INFORSE
at COP15
- December
14, 2009, COP15 Side Event at the Bella Center
Proceedings and Pictures
- December
9, 2009, COP15 side Event at the Klimaforum09
Pictures and Proceedings
- INFORSE exhibitions at Klimaforum'09 and
at the Bella
Center |
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• December
15, 2008
INFORSE participated as NGO observer at UNFCCC COP14, December 1-12, 2008.
INFORSE also had an exhibition stall and a side event.
From the INFORSE Asia Coordinators and National Focal points participated:
INSEDA, AIWC (India), CRT (Nepal), ISEP (Japan).
Read more on the INFORSE participation at the conference at COP14. |
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• January
2008
INFORSE-South Asia CD Published
Sustainable Energy Solutions for Poverty Reduction
Result of an INFORSE project 2005-08.
The CD includes the Manual in 5 languages: English, Hindi, Nepalese, Bangla,
Singhala.
Order
a copy at: INFORSE
order page or at INFORSE-South Asia Coordinator (INSEDA in India),
or at the project partners e.g. IDEA from Sri Lanka, CRT from Nepal,
Grameen Shakti from Bangladesh, OVE in Denmark. Find contacts under "Search
Members & Contacts" on the left side of this page
Main
Documents are Available Online: Manual |
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• July,
2008
INFORSE news from Sustainable
Energy News 61, page 8:
- IDEA from Sri Lanka is inviting international volunteers.
Read
more on IDEA at successes
under Sri Lanka and the Project
on Poverty Reduction Manual, or at the Current
Situation under Sri Lanka.
-
Road 2020 Haribon Rain forestation Campaign in the Philippines
- Ashden Award to Grameen Shakti and TIDE
- Solar Energy Leads in Indian Climate Action Plan |
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• January
23-24, 2008
Workshop: INFORSE-Capacity Building in Bangladesh
Contact: Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh or
Raymond Myles, INSEDA, INFORSE South Asia Coordinator |
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• May
24-26, 2007
Workshop:
INFORSE-Capacity Building Project National Workshop
of NGOs in RETs for Poverty Reduction in India
Venue: Om
Shanti Retreat Centre, Manesar, Gurgaon, India
Program: (37
kB word file)
Proceedings: (pdf
file 470 kB) or (word
file 1.7 MB) |
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• April-May,
2007
UN CSD Conference: INFORSE South-Asia organisations participated on the
UNCSD 15, 2007.
Read more: here |
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• March
2005 - January 2008
INFORSE
organisations were focusing on a project on renewable
energy and poverty reduction in Sri
Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and India. The
organisations collected successful examples of sustainable
energy for poverty reduction and have developed guidelines
for choosing the best solutions in given local circumstances. Follow
the project's achievements:
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You
can find information about INFORSE-Asia in Sustainable
Energy News as well
as news about NGO-activities and international processes
for sustainable energy.
Gender
Theme in Sustainable Energy News
Link to the articles
on Gender. Inputs are welcome to Judit Szoleczky
Email: ove@inforse.org
Link to the full article on Improved kitchen in Sri Lanka, December 2007, here. (under
the title: Sri Lanka)
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INFORSE
Vision 2050 & Planning for a Sustainable Energy Future
Ideas, resources for local & national plans: potential, barriers, computer
models. Your guide to make proposals for sustainable energy development
that follows implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. |
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Please send comments to
the web master at: ove [at] inforse.org
or to the INFORSE-South Asia coordinator
at: inseda [at] inforse.org.
Created: March 2005. Last
updated:
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