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Micro solar power station in Sundarbans biosphere reserve

WWF-India helps far flung villages access grid quality power.

sundarbans2Access to safe, clean energy is fundamental to poverty eradication, to stopping deforestation, and to stopping climate change. Photo Gallery (Photo Gallery, agricultural waste and dung). Many also have to use other expensive resources like kerosene.

Use of biomass and kerosene has bearing on biodiversity and deforestation (through the impacts of collecting firewood and human-wildlife conflict), and equally to climate change since black carbon (soot) and kerosene are significant contributors to global warming. Access to clean energy therefore, has clear connections between human wellbeing and environment protection.

In India today, many thousands of villages are without access to safe and clean energy. These villages are often too remote for grid electricity to be considered a technically or economically feasible option. Photo Gallery, and the Spanish Network (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
Sur 9 Mars 2011, Photo Gallery. The ‘Model’ is a comprehensive process for planning and establishing technically and financially sustainable, off-grid centralised renewable energy-based village energy systems. It is based on the highly successful ‘Bushlight’ project which, Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and 2002, has been providing remote indigenous communities in Australia with access to reliable renewable energy services. Photo Gallery. and the Spanish Network 50 ménages, Photo Gallery.

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, Photo Gallery 24 hour cycles. The energy budgets then led to system design allowing provisioning of a predetermined, Photo Gallery. and the Spanish Network (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. Photo Gallery.

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Dr. Osman Benchikh *. Spécialiste de programme en charge de l'énergie et des énergies renouvelables. Coordinateur du projet RENFORUS.
E-mail: o.benchikh(à)unesco.org
Cipriano Marín **. Assistant for RENFORUS project implementation.
E-mail: c.marin(à)unescocan.org
Adresses: * UNESCO. 1, Rue Miollis. 75015 Paris – France
** Ave. Îles Canaries, 35 - 38007, S / C Tenerife - Espagne