INFORSE-Europe
Annual Report 1996-97
Adopted by the
INFORSE
- Europe General Meeting, June 22, 1997
Support of national
sustainable energy strategies:
- The 'Guideline
for Assessing Renewable Energy Potentials' was published in a new
version;
- Cooperation between
TAASEN (Estonian) and OVE (Denmark) for the development of a sustainable
energy plan for Estonia was facilitated.
Cooperation among INFORSE-Europe
organiz-ations:
- The poster exhibition
displaying sustainable energy solutions was used in Central and East-ern
Europe (CEE);
- The database of
renewable energy manufacturers and servi-ces in CEE countries was established
and disseminated;
- The devel-opment
of a database on sustainable energy cases/success-stories was started
in Slovakia and Ukraine.
Exchange of information:
- Contributions
to 4 issues of Sustainable Energy News and to the European Sustainable
Energy Contact List;
- Establishing an
INFORSE - Europe email list;
- In
cooperation with OVE (Denmark) a report 'Renewable Energy and a
Sustainable Development
in a "liberalized" Energy Market' was published on experience with
liberalization of electric-ity markets in some Western European countries.
Lobbying international
organizations:
- The development
of EU energy activities was followed and a comment was made to the Green
Paper on Renewable Energy. APERE, Belgium, played a leading role in
EU moni-toring and lobby-ing. Contacts was established with the new
Renewable Energy Intergroup of the EU Parliament;
- Western investments
in Central and Eastern Europe: a contact was made to the Bank Watch
Network for Central and Eastern Europe;
- The energy activities
of the Environment for Europe process were followed.Within this process
a European Energy Conservation Strategy will be developed for adoption
at the Pan-Euro-pean Environ-mental Ministers Meeting, June98;
- Participation
in the Pan-European Adult Education Conference, Barcelona, December
1996 and in the European preparation for the UNESCO 5th Conference on
Adult Education, Hamburg, July 1997.
- Several INFORSE-Europe
organizations follows the development of a Baltic Agenda21 energy plan.
Cooperation with other
INFORSE regions:
- A special emphasis
was made to cooperate on improving the World Solar Summit Process. This
included a special Solar Summit Newsletter, included in Sustainable
Energy News;
- The development
of the environmental theme of the UNESCO 5. Conference on Adult Education
was followed;
- An INFORSE Coordinators'
Meeting was held in Harare, September '96.
Cooperation with other
networks included cooperation with Climate Network Europe (CNE) in preparing
comments to the EU Green Paper, and a cooperation with CNE and WISE on organizing
a European Sustainable Energy Seminar, June 1997.
The secretarial functions
of INFORSE-Europe were carried out on mainly voluntary basis by OVE (Organization
for Renewable Energy, Denmark) and FAE (Foundation for Alternative Energy,
Slovakia).
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Report: Year 1998
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