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100% Renewable Energy & Climate Change Forum

The Future Is Now Global Forum – Madrid, 19th November 2015 Organized by EXPANSION in cooperation with RENFORUS Initiative with the sponsorship of ACCIONA. Forum site> In 2014, the United Nations has proclaimed a Decade of Sustainable Energy for All. This is an unprecedented commitment to a

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RENFORUS action presented at the Second Annual Sustainable Energy for All Forum

18-21 May 2015 | UN Headquarters, New York May 2015 was mark almost a year since the First Annual Sustainable Energy for All Forum, a landmark event that officially launched the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All 2014-2024, as declared by the UN General Assembly

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Powering Tourism with Sustainable Energy

RENFORUS contribution to t-FORUM 2015 Global Conference: Tourism Intelligence in Action. Naples, Italy, May 2015. Energy is at the heart of tourist activities. If we look in depth, energy is the golden thread that connects competitiveness of tourism, increases public welfare in the destinations, and the environment. Tourism

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Renewable energies for the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve

UNESCO – ADEREE workshop. Marrakech, March 1025. Located in the southwest of Morocco, the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve is a large intra-montane plain home to the Argan tree (Argania spinosa), a species endemic to the reserve in need of conservation. These trees constitute a major economic resource for

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2015 – International Year of Light

Future of Sustainable Lighting During 2015 United Nations will focus on raising global awareness about how light-based technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to global challenges in energy, education, agriculture and health. Today, more than 1.3 billion people worldwide do not have access to basic electricity.

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2nd Ibero-American Congress on Micro-Grids with Distributed Generation of Renewables

Practical application of Renewable Energy integration at UNESCO Sites. 6-8 October, 2014. Smart microgrids are electric power grids that can integrate the actions of the users connected to them and thus provide an efficient, sustainable, profitable and secure electric power supply. Being the previously mentioned an strategic

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Historical Japanese town and new-age renewable energy

World Heritage Town Hiraizumi and Solar Frontier Agree to 13 MW Megasolar Project Solar Frontier and the town of Hiraizumi have agreed to build a 13 MW CIS megasolar (“utility-scale”) power plant. Hiraizumi, located in Iwate Prefecture in north-eastern Japan, achieved UNESCO world heritage status in June

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RENISLA2014 – The Renewable Energy Islands

International Forum, June 2014, El Hierro Biosphere Reserve (Canary Islands, Spain). Hosting and organized by El Hierro Islands Government, RENISLA2014 will be held to celebrate the inauguration of the “Gorona del Viento” Wind-hydro Power Plant, which will make El Hierro Biosphere Reserve the first energy-isolated territory in

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UNESCO The binomial Energy & Water

World Water Day 2014 Water is fundamental to life and is the common denominator of all sustainable development challenges. We need water to produce food and we need water to produce energy. Improving access to freshwater is about enabling millions of girls to go to school instead

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UN launches decade-long initiative to promote sustainable energy for all

NEW YORK/VIENNA, 9 April 2014 The United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All (2014-2024) was launched to the business community today at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit. Kandeh Yumkella, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary–General and chief executive of the Sustainable Energy for All

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Dr Osman Benchikh *. Programme Specialist in Charge of Energy and Renewable Energy. Coordinator of RENFORUS project.
E-mail: o.benchikh(at)unesco.org
Cipriano Marín **. Assistant for RENFORUS project implementation.
E-mail: c.marin(at)unescocan.org
Addresses: * UNESCO. 1, Rue Miollis. 75015 Paris – France
** Avda. Islas Canarias, 35 - 38007, S/C de Tenerife - Spain