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).

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).

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

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

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

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)

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

• 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.

• 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

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.

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)

• 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.

• 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)

• 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

• June-September, 2017

National & District Dialogue meetings in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh
Read more on the EVD Project

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).

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 10 June 2015
INFORSE - UNFCCC Side Event in Bonn - SBI 42 - Pre Conference to COP21
Time: 18:30 - 20:00, Place: Room: Bonn I

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Project Description
• Current Situation in South Asia
• Successful Examples Stories
• Publication: Manual of Solutions (Uploaded 2006 December)
• Publication: Manual of Financial Solution
• Events & Seminars
• Download the new INFORSE-Asia brochure (81kB pdf)

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)