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2. INFORSE Background
INFORSE is a worldwide network consisting of 140 Non Governmental Organisations working in about 60 countries to promote sustainable energy and social development.
The Network was established in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to secure follow-up in
the political decisions at the United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
INFORSE
is actively engaged in international awareness rising. INFORSE follows and
influences sustainable energy issues in international negotiations and is accredited
to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 1998, and United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 2002.
As observer, INFORSE
has been involved in participating at UN conferences. INFORSE also has organised
side events and exhibitions at many of these conferences. The major conferences
are:
- UNFCCC Conferences of Parties (COP)
* COP29
in Baku in 2024
* SB60
in Bonn 2024
* COP28
in Dubai in 2023
*- SB58
in Bonn 2023
* COP27
in Egypt in 2022
*- SB56
in Bonn, Germany in 2022
* COP26
in Glasgow, UK in 2021
* COP
25 in Madrid, Spain 2019
* COP
24 in Katowice, Poland in 2018
*- SB48
in Bonn, Germany in May 2018
* COP
23 in Bonn/Fiji in 2017
* COP
22 in Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2016
*- SB44
in Bonn, Germany in 2016
* COP
21 in Paris, France in 2015
*- SB42
in Bonn, Germany in 2015
* COP
20 in Lima, Peru, in 2014
* COP
19 in Warsaw, Poland, in 2013
* COP
18 in Doha, Qatar, in 2012
* COP
17 in Durban, South Africa, in 2011
* COP
16 in Cancun, Mexico, in 2010
* COP
15 in Copenhagen in 2009
* COP
14 in Poznan in 2008
- UN Sustainable
Development Conferences & Dilaogues
* UN
HLPF-2021 New York (VIRTUAL) in July 2021
* UN
HLDE 2021 Dialogue on Energy (VIRTUAL) in June 2021
* UN
CD-2020
Climate Dialogue November 2020
* UN-HLPF
2020 New York (VIRTUAL) inJuly 2020
- The Rio Process including Rio+20in
2012 as
well as WSSD Johannesburg in 2002, RE
Conference in Bonn'04, and BIREC
in Beijing'05.
- UN-ECE Committee on
Sustainable Energy
- European Environmental
Ministers’ Meeting in
Aarhus, and Kiev´03,
- UNCSD Process:
UN
CSD 9, 14 & 15,
INFORSE has participated with inputs, common statements ,and representations
at the European
Eco-Forum and Citizens
United for Renewables and Sustainability (CURES).
INFORSE has a global
Sustainable Energy Vision by 2050 with
100% Renewable Energy Supply. The Vision was prepared and
presented at the
Rio Conference in 2002.
The network evolves around the members supported by National
Focal Points in some countries and
Regional Coordinators working in their respective regions.
The most active regions are Europe, Asia,
and Africa, In 2022, the Latin America region has established its own website. In 2022-24, INFORSE regions participated
in a a global networking project Synergy Across Continents.
INFORSE-South Asia has
been involved in a series projects on the Advocacy
on Sustainable Eco-Village Development (EVD) in 2015-23. The cooperating organisations
are from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
As part of the project
a Socio-Technical
Training of Trainers Manual on EVD was published in English,
Hindi, Nepali
and Sinhala
and a Database
of Local EVD Solutions was established in 2022.
The projects are a continuation
of a previous project on "Sustainable
Energy to Reduce Poverty", which published
a Manual
on Sustainable Energy in English, Hindi, Nepali and Sinhala in
2005-06.
INFORSE-Europe is following the EU policy closely.
Read on INFORSE
and EU policy.
and has developed and promotes 100
% Renewable Energy scenarios/Visions for the
EU
and
for
European
Countries. Besides, it has been active establishing a network among researchers
and NGOs, called the
Low
Carbon
Societies
Network.
Lately it is partner to the EU Horizon supported ptoject called FULFILL
Project reseraching on green lyfestyle and sufficiency.
INFORSE-East Africa has
been involved in EASCA Project, which is a coopearion among NGOs in Kenya, Uganda,
and Tanzania. in 2019-23. As part of the project, a catalogue of local suatainable
solutions was established
and 100 % Renewable Energy Scenarios were developed in Kenya and Uganda.
INFORSE-Africa and
INFORSE-Asia have been involved in NGO cooperation NGO Capacity building project "Southern Voices on Climate Change" in Africa and in Asia in 2011-14, and a continued project on "Promoting Pro-Poor Low-Carbon Development Strategies" working to strengthen climate-policy networks in 2015-16.
In INFORSE, networking is understood as a process rather than a rigid
structure. The members work to achieve in common what would otherwise have been impossible for the individual organisation to reach in terms of financing, political influence and capacity. The more the members engage in the network by sharing information and work together, the more the individual organisation benefit from the network and the more effective is the network.
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3. INFORSE Membership
Membership is open only to independent non-profit and non-governmental organisations
supporting the INFORSE vision and mission. Members cooperate on different projects,
exchange knowledge, participate on networks events, receives 'Sustainable
Energy News'.
For
more information:
- INFORSE
BROCHURE (pdf 1,9 MB), and
- INFORSE Folder, (word doc format, 16 kB)
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Read
more about the Secretariat and see the contact addresses to the INFORSE Regional Coordinators.
Please
see the present INFORSE
Members in the different regions.
Membership is free of charge and due to approval by the regional co-ordinator.
Do You want to become member of the INFORSE network?
Fill out: The Membership Application, in word doc format (21 kB)
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