Climate protection in Wold Heritage Site The Jungfrau region has taken a number of different steps to promote renewable energy. For example, a power station fired by wood chips to be built in Grindelwald is at an advanced planning stage. It will run on locally available wood
Read more →A model for self-sustaining communities in South Africa. By using a hybrid approach to power generation, the Greening of Robben Island project will reduce the demand on the island’s infrastructures and its dependence on fossil fuels. In 1999 Robben Island was inscribed on Unesco’s list of world
Read more →EcoAndina project in Laguna de Pozuelos biosphere reserve. In the north and northwest of Jujuy province (Argentina), people are finding that solar energy, a clean and inexhaustible source, can replace firewood, which is increasingly scarce. The EcoAndina Foundation is showing the way through a series of projects.
Read more →A taste of development while preserving the forests in Gunung Leuser biosphere reserve. The thirteen villages in Puteri Betung Subdistrict did not have electricity. Some people and village institutions used generators to fulfill their daily needs of electricity. It was certainly costly and insufficient. Puteri Betung is
Read more →Solar, hydropower, green building and transport issues in Palawan Biosphere Reserve. Puerto Princesa is a multiawarded and pioneer city for environmental initiatives in the Philippines. It is the capital and chief seaport and airport of the province of Palawan biosphere reserve. Solar power In June 2010 the
Read more →Towards a CO2-Free Island. Yakushima Island, a World Natural Heritage Site and biosphere reserve located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, is almost completely powered by hydroelectricity. Focusing on this unique island, Kagoshima Prefecture is promoting the “Zero Carbon Emission Island” initiative, which aims to create a developed area
Read more →Reducing tourism’s carbon footprint in Palawan biosphere reserve. Funded by the European Union’s SWITCH – Asia Programme, the Zero Carbon Resorts project recognizes that tourism generates a large amount of greenhouse gas emissions and aims to reduce tourism’s carbon footprint through three steps known as the “3R
Read more →The case of Soneva Fushi Resort. Soneva Fushi Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plant is the largest renewable energy system in operation in the Maldives. Soneva Fushi plan to expand on this and other clean energy technologies in the years to come. A combination of clean energy provision
Read more →Promoting renewable energy through Bio-gas units in tribal villages of Nilgiri biosphere reserve. Nilgiris is one of the largest tribal areas in the state of Tamilnadu, India. The most common tribes are Paniya, Kurumbas & Kattunayaka. The quality of life for these tribal communities still remains to
Read more →One of the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) systems in “Oasis du Sud Marocain” biosphere reserve. The Ouarzazate Solar Power Station Project It is part of the Moroccan Solar Plan designed under Morocco’s energy strategy and, on a larger scale, it forms part of the Concentrated
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