Solar Energy: From the fringes and into the light. The case of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts biosphere reserve. The Mojave and sonoran Deserts of the american southwest are at the center of a rush to develop critical renewable energy resources. These important projects have been fraught
Read more →UNESCO’s Commitment to Sustainable Development (2011). UNESCO promotes capacity-building in basic sciences and engineering with the aim of enhancing human resources development; increasing education for green technologies, including renewable energy and energy effi ciency; and leverging the transfer of scientific knowledge, thus bridging the knowledge gap between
Read more →Pathways for Concerted Action toward Sustainable Energy for All. The Sustainable Energy for All initiative will catalyse major new investments to speed the transformation of the world’s energy systems, pursue the elimination of energy poverty, and enhance prosperity. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched this global initiative
Read more →Adopted by the participants of the Conference for the MaB 40th anniversary on June 28, 2011 in Dresden, Germany. Climate change mitigation, adaptation to climate change and the conservation of biological diversity are among today’s key environmental challenges. Rising to these challenges requires strong political commitment and decisive action
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Guide for developers of wind energy projects This guidance is intended for developers of wind energy projects which may affect any of these aspects of the historic environment. It is also aimed at those, including local authority planners and their historic environment advisers, involved in strategic planning
Read more →Global Status Report First released in 2005, REN21′s Renewables Global Status Report (GSR) has grown to become a truely collaborative effort of over 400 authors, contributors and reviewers, and is today the most frequently referenced report on renewable energy market, industry and policy trends. It provides testimony
Read more →Position Paper of the MaB National Committee of Germany for the use of wind power and biomass in Biosphere Reserves. Position Paper of the MAB National Committee for the use of wind power and biomass in biosphere reserves Blieskastel, 5. September 2012 1. The challenges of the energy revolution – Chances of biosphere reserves as model regions use
Read more →Paper – World Renewable Energy Congress 2011 by Tor Broström and Karin Svahnström1 (Gotland University, Centre for Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings, Visby, Sweden) The use of solar energy in a building of cultural-heritage value is an issue that brings the trade-off between aspects of use and
Read more →A collection of good practice case studies. UNESCO biosphere reserves are ideal places to test, evaluate and implement comprehensive climate change policies. This publication presents a selection of case studies about good practice to demonstrate what biosphere reserves are already doing in this policy field. This publication
Read more →AGECC calls on the United Nations system and its Member States to commit themselves to two complementary goals: 1. Ensure universal access to modern energy services by 2030. The global community should aim to provide access for the 2-3 billion people excluded from modern energy services, to
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