The website to all activities related to the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All is now online. The site is managed by UN Foundation and will regularly up-date on news, activities and events: http://www.sustainableenergyforall.org/ As a partner, ADB and the Partnership are supporting UNF and the Global Campaign in its efforts of raising awareness to fight [...]
Manila, June 23, 2011 – Philips, Schneider Electric, and Siemens, all World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) members, outlined a business proposition aimed at enabling access to clean, reliable and affordable energy at a WBCSD-convened event at the 6th Asia Clean Energy Forum. Read the full article here.
On June 21st, the first Energy for All Investors forum took place at ADB Headquarters in Manila. After the Welcome Remarks EFAIF 21June2011(Deputy Director General, Private Sector Operations Department of ADB), and introduction of the investor forum approach, presentations were divided into three sessions. Session 1 featured project models that are replicable and regional in [...]
The Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership (formerly e8) and UN-Energy launched the global initiative for “Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships” On June 2, 2011. In a press conference held at UN Headquarters in New York, Tariq Banuri, Director of the Division for Sustainable Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs affirmed the need for a global [...]
For the first time, Energy for All will organize an Investor Forum to feature sustainable energy access project models and innovative financing mechanisms. The Investor Forum will be a pre-forum event of the 6th Asia Clean Energy Forum and will be held at ADB in Manila on 21 June 2011. While a limited number of [...]
The 6th Asia Clean Energy Forum will be held from 20 – 24 June 2011 at the ADB headquarters in Manila, Philippines, marking 2 years since the partnership was launched at the 4th ACEF in 2009. Energy access will once again play a major role during the Forum, with 6 sessions on the theme of [...]
Nexus-Carbon for Development is the newest member of EDWG. Nexus is a non-profit organization founded in 2008 by an alliance of pro-poor project developers as a peer-to-peer services platform, to create synergies between its members and provide awareness raising, capacity building, carbon project documentation, and carbon asset management. Nexus’s objective is to enable equitable and [...]
e8 and UN-Energy are co-hosting a Global Summit to Strengthen Public-Private Partnerships to Accelerate Global Electricity Technology deployment to be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 2 June, 2011. This summit will see the launch of the e8-UN-Energy global report that highlights the enabling policies and best practices of public-private partnerships for [...]
Nexus-Carbon for Development is hosting a workshop and marketplace on 11-13 July 2011 in Siem Reap, Cambodia to showcase the rural energy and climate initiative launched this March. The workshop also aims to bring new actors into the program to develop the initiative. The marketplace will showcase good practice projects for rural energy provision, which [...]
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