From pioneering work to a holistic energy and climate. Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. The city is noted for its Alpine setting as well as its historic centre, which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage
Read more →Energy and sustainable mobility on a world heritage site. On the 18th December 2009 the city council of Vienna enacted the update of the climate protection programme of the city of Vienna (KLiP II), which will be valid until 2020. This programme is the update of the
Read more →Proposals for the landscape integration of renewable energy technologies. The drawing-up of a wind power plan and the launch of a call for proposals for the architectural integration of photovoltaic systems both demonstrate that renewable energy is a hot topic in the World Heritage listed Loire Valley.
Read more →Marine Energy Park project in the surroundings of the Braunton Burrows-North Devon biosphere reserve. The discussion document, “Bristol Channel Energy: A Balanced Technology Approach”, proposes a new strategy to harness the massive energy potential of the Bristol Channel in a way which balances the imperative to generate
Read more →Renewable energy cooperatives in Rhön biosphere reserve. “What’s impossible for the individual can be achieved by many.” This cooperative principle from the nineteenth century neatly sums up the approach taken by the people managing the Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen Energie eG (FWR). How can we combat climate change?
Read more →ENNEREG Regions: paving the way for a Sustainable Energy Europe. The SEP activities in the region of Blekinge were so far focused on four topics, i.e. “energy efficient buildings”, “sustainable transport”, “renewable energies” and “energy services and financing”. In total, six SEPs were promoted. The focus of
Read more →Natural Building & Alternative Energy in the Altaisky biosphere reserve. Since the organization’s inception, The Altai Project has focused significant resources on supporting and promoting the use of natural building techniques and alternative energy technologies in Altai Republic. Strawbale building has great promise in southern Siberia, as
Read more →Climate protection in Wold Heritage Site The Jungfrau region has taken a number of different steps to promote renewable energy. For example, a power station fired by wood chips to be built in Grindelwald is at an advanced planning stage. It will run on locally available wood
Read more →A climate smart city in Blekinge Archipelago biosphere reserve. A Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) is the key document in which the Covenant signatory outlines how it intends to reach its CO2 reduction target by 2020. It defines the activities and measures set up to achieve the
Read more →RE city in the hearth of Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve. In 1999, the executive committee of Kristianstad municipality unanimously decided to declare its will to become a Fossil Fuel Free Municipality. The reduction of fossil fuels is to be achieved primarily by the use of bio-fuels,
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