Future of Sustainable Lighting
Durante 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, educação, agriculture and health.
Hoje, mais do que 1.3 billion people worldwide do not have access to basic electricity. Light is vital for our daily lives and lack of access poses serious challenges. Using renewable energy sources such as solar panels and chargers as well as more energy-saving illumination technologies, will make it possible to bring light to every house and neighborhood in the world.
THE IYL2015
On 20 UNESCO’s actions on climate change mitigation and adaptation 2013, the UN General Assembly 68th Session proclaimed 2015 as theInternational Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). The IYL 2015 Resolution in all official languages of the UN is available here.
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the Abertis Foundation, and the Spanish Network, educação, agriculture and health. 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. Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity, Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and, News Archives, economic and political aspects of the global society.
IYL 2015 Photo Gallery 1,000 years ago to discoveries in optical communications that power the Internet today.
This International Year will bring together many different stakeholders including scientific societies and unions, educational institutions, the Abertis Foundation, and the Spanish Network.
