Energy independence and climate alliance in the City of Bamberg, World Heritage Site. In the German city of Bamberg, both city and county are working together towards a 100-percent supply of renewable energy. This should be realised by 2035 – reason enough for the Renewable Energies Agency
Read more →Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site. Wales’ national coal mining museum is looking to a clean future with its solar panel installation, which will help to preserve the country’s past. The area around the Blaenavon ironworks provides an extraordinarily comprehensive picture of the South Wales coal and iron
Read more →Clean cookstoves to help protect forests of Virunga National Park (World Heritage Site). Virunga National Park is located at the heart of the conflict, and straddles the border between the DRC, Rwanda and Uganda. Home to some of the world’s last remaining Mountain Gorillas, it is Africa’s first
Read more →Multi-Country – Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger — W-Park Biodiversity Pilot Project in Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage site. Key objectives To promote the conservation of biodiversity and fight desertification while fulfilling the basic needs – such as safe drinking water, health care and rural electrification – of
Read more →ERGAL project. Archipiélago de Colon (Biosphere reserve and World Heritage site). The project ERGAL – Proyecto Energías Renovables para Galápagos – is coordinating the implementation of renewable energy projects at the archipelago of Galápagos, Ecuador. Currently, this concerns projects on all inhabited islands, in particular a 700 kW
Read more →Energy Sustainability and Climate Change in the World Heritage Site Renewable Heritage introduced clean energy technologies into traditionally-built, listed properties in Edinburgh’s Old Town, a Conservation Area and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. This work built on the success of Changeworks’ earlier energy efficiency project, Energy
Read more →The first hydropower plant inscribed on the World Heritage List. Tyssedal and Odda also represent the early, hectic phase of heavy processing industry based on hydropower. High waterfalls, good storage facilities and a location on an ice-free fjord in Southern Norway were decisive for the establishment of
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