North Devon Biosphere Reserve How to stem the outflow of £300 M per annum spent on energy and turn it into local investment and good resource management? The Biosphere Partnership is leading the development of a Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) for the Biosphere as part of
Read more →How can solar lights save tigers in the Sundarbans biosphere reserve? The use of a renewable non-polluting and viable source of energy that at one go helps tackle human-animal conflict and also lights up the lives of communities. This is the goals of the new, innovative method
Read more →Promoting the use of solar energy by empowering women of remote rural communities. On 17 February 2014, UNESCO and its local partner, ‘the Gorilla Organization’, presented solar equipment (i.e. solar panels, batteries, solar lanterns and electronic components) to a village in the Volcans Biosphere Reserve in Rwanda,
Read more →Provide clean energy to rural communities in Congo’s Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site A second hydroelectric project was started on a river that runs through Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once online, the hydropower plant will provide 12.5 megawatts of clean
Read more →Training on solar energy to boost electrification in 12 African countries UNESCO Dakar is co-organizing a workshop on solar energy from 9-13 December 2013 in Dakar, Senegal. Some 30 participants from 12 French-speaking African countries will be trained in the installation and maintenance of photovoltaic systems, an
Read more →Castellet (Barcelona, Spain) November 14-15, 2013. This first workshop, aimed at defining the new strategy in favour of renewable energy in the 45 biosphere reserves that make up the Spanish network, is organized by the Autonomous Authority for National Parks (OAPN), the Abertis Foundation, and the Spanish Network
Read more →In the framework of the 40th anniversary of UNESCO International Congress “The Sun in the service of mankind”, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and UNESCO organise jointly on 3 October 2013, an international initiative on “Renewable energies
Read more →UNESCO School in South East Europe. In partnership with RENFORUS initiative. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 29 September – 4 October 2013. UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable energy by conveying in a single venue a substantial capital of knowledge
Read more →Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity. The Mutwanga hydroelectric facility will provide clean energy to rural communities that depend on Africa’s oldest national park. Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and
Read more →The strategic framework agreement was signed by UNESCO Director-General, Ms. Irina Bokova and Senior Managing Executive Officer of Panasonic Corporation, Mr. Takumi Kajisha, on June 18, 2013, in Phnom Penh in the Kingdom of Cambodia, on the occasion of the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee.
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