PV system-based rural electrification. Oxapampa-Ashaninka-Yanesha biosphere reserve. On 27 August 2012, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved the financing for one million dollars for ACCIONA Micronergía Perú (ACCIONA Microenergy Peru) for the purchase of 1,700 Domestic PV Solar (DPVS) units, as well as an additional $300,000 donation towards
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 →Locally – Renewably – Efficiently. North Karelian biosphere reserve. The Climate and Energy Programme of North Karelia presents a plan of action for the North Karelia region on climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Climate and Energy Programme implements the climate targets set out in the European
Read more →Beinn Eighe biosphere reserve. Used funds from a local wind farm to improve energy efficiency in rural households. The largely rural area of South West Scotland has high unemployment and low incomes. There are more than 15 wind farms operating or under construction in the area and others
Read more →Sunderban women wield the power of the sun TERI, in collaboration with the Ramakrishna Mission (RKM), is empowering the women of the Sunderbans biosphere reserve to promote the use of solar power. This pilot project has successfully created viable enterprises, on the supp ly side, targeting women
Read more →West Estonian Archipelago biosphere reserve. Hiiumaa is the second biggest island of Moonsund archipelago and Estonian coast. Hiiumaa island alongside with Kassari island and about other 200 island and islets is a Hiiu County with area about 1023 sq km. Hiiumaa has joined the International agreement Called
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 →Pilot alternative livelihoods for local communities in Katunskiy Biosphere Reserve. Katunsky Biosphere Reserve has introduced a renewable energy source in the form of an experimental model of a solar water heater as a means to conserve forest resources in Central Altai. The solar water heater and its portable
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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