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The Future Is Now Global Forum – Madrid, 19th November 2015 Organized by EXPANSION in cooperation with RENFORUS Initiative with the sponsorship of ACCIONA. Forum site> In 2014, the United Nations has proclaimed a Decade...

18-21 May 2015 | UN Headquarters, New York May 2015 was mark almost a year since the First Annual Sustainable Energy for All Forum, a landmark event that officially launched the United Nations Decade of...

RENFORUS contribution to t-FORUM 2015 Global Conference: Tourism Intelligence in Action. Naples, Italy, May 2015. Energy is at the heart of tourist activities. If we look in depth, energy is the golden thread that connects competitiveness...

UNESCO – ADEREE workshop. Marrakech, March 1025. Located in the southwest of Morocco, the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve is a large intra-montane plain home to the Argan tree (Argania spinosa), a species endemic to the reserve...

Future of Sustainable Lighting During 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, education, agriculture and health. Today, more...

Practical application of Renewable Energy integration at UNESCO Sites. 6-8 October, 2014. Smart microgrids are electric power grids that can integrate the actions of the users connected to them and thus provide an efficient, sustainable,...

World Heritage Town Hiraizumi and Solar Frontier Agree to 13 MW Megasolar Project Solar Frontier and the town of Hiraizumi have agreed to build a 13 MW CIS megasolar (“utility-scale”) power plant. Hiraizumi, located in...

International Forum, June 2014, El Hierro Biosphere Reserve (Canary Islands, Spain). Hosting and organized by El Hierro Islands Government, RENISLA2014 will be held to celebrate the inauguration of the “Gorona del Viento” Wind-hydro Power Plant,...

World Water Day 2014 Water is fundamental to life and is the common denominator of all sustainable development challenges. We need water to produce food and we need water to produce energy. Improving access to...

NEW YORK/VIENNA, 9 April 2014 The United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All (2014-2024) was launched to the business community today at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit. Kandeh Yumkella, the Special Representative of...

North Devon Biosphere Reserve How to stem the outflow of £300 M per annum spent on energy and turn it into local investment and good resource management? The Biosphere Partnership is leading the development of...

How can solar lights save tigers in the Sundarbans biosphere reserve? The use of a renewable non-polluting and viable source of energy that at one go helps tackle human-animal conflict and also lights up the...

Promoting the use of solar energy by empowering women of remote rural communities. On 17 February 2014, UNESCO and its local partner, ‘the Gorilla Organization’, presented solar equipment (i.e. solar panels, batteries, solar lanterns and...

Provide clean energy to rural communities in Congo’s Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site A second hydroelectric project was started on a river that runs through Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of the...

Training on solar energy to boost electrification in 12 African countries UNESCO Dakar is co-organizing a workshop on solar energy from 9-13 December 2013 in Dakar, Senegal. Some 30 participants from 12 French-speaking African countries...

Castellet (Barcelona, Spain) November 14-15, 2013. This first workshop, aimed at defining the new strategy in favour of renewable energy in the 45 biosphere reserves that make up the Spanish network, is organized by the...

In the framework of the 40th anniversary of UNESCO International Congress “The Sun in the service of mankind”, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and UNESCO...

UNESCO School in South East Europe. In partnership with RENFORUS initiative. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 29 September – 4 October 2013. UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable...

Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity. The Mutwanga hydroelectric facility will provide clean energy to rural communities that depend on Africa’s oldest...

The strategic framework agreement was signed by UNESCO Director-General, Ms. Irina Bokova and Senior Managing Executive Officer of Panasonic Corporation, Mr. Takumi Kajisha, on June 18, 2013, in Phnom Penh in the Kingdom of Cambodia,...