Projects for Theme 'Energy'

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  Awareness Raising of Renewable Energy Technologies Tanzania

  Created by: matimbwi | 2012-04-22 11:16

  Associated Organization: Tanzania Renewable Energy Association

  Summary:

  The project has the objective of raising awareness of renewable energy technologies in Tanzania. The project aims at scaling up the acceptance and use of the clean renewable energy technologies and reversing the climate change.

  
  

• Review of Adaptation Action

  Created by: AdaptationPartnership | 2012-03-20 19:58

  Associated Organization: Adaptation Partnership / IISD

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  As part of our effort to catalyze effective adaptation action, the Adaptation Partnership commissioned a review of planned and existing adaptation activities in 12 sub-regions across Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. These reviews provide an inventory of regional and country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications.  They also identify gaps and opportunities for scaling up and enhancing collaboration.

  
  
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  Domestic Biogas Plant

  Created by: kievnov | 2012-02-28 15:30

  Associated Organization: Kievnov Science and Environmental Technologies Co Ltd

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  KSET Domestic Biogas Plants produce renewable fuel from organic biomass (kitchen waste) and are primarily used in developing countries and rural areas as an alternative to using fossil fuels, whose combustion contributes to global warming. Biogas is a carbon neutral fuel that is produced when bacteria degrade biological material in the absence of oxygen, a process known as anaerobic digestion, or fermentation of biodegradable materials such as biomass, manure, sewage, or municipal waste. The fuel consists primarily of methane (CH4 or natural gas) and carbon dioxide (CH4) mixed with trace gases and can be used to generate electricity for cooking and heating when it is burned.

  
  
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  Ecosystem Livelihood Adaptation Network (ELAN) case studies: good practices in Niger, Sudan & Madagascar

  Created by: admin | 2012-02-06 19:27

  Associated Organization: ELAN

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  ELAN collects, selects, and disseminates peer-reviewed case studies on good practices in integrating ecosystem and rights-based principles into people-centered adaptation policies, plans and programmes. Unsuccessful projects or “bad” practices are also of interest if they provide good lessons for future applications. Case studies are used for learning, knowledge exchange, and training purposes. Case studies are collected through different channels. http://elanadapt.net/good-practices

  
  
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  FAO, EU Fund Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa (Malawi and Zambia)

  Created by: admin | 2012-01-19 14:23

  Associated Organization: FAO

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  Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the European Commission have launched a €5.3 million, three-year project in Malawi, Viet Nam and Zambia to identify challenges and opportunities for climate-smart agriculture and produce strategic plans for each country. Continued.

  
  
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  GEF-SCCF Project Increases Resilience to Drought and Climate Change in Zimbabwe

  Created by: admin | 2011-12-23 12:42

  Associated Organization: GEF

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  December 2011: In Zimbabwe’s rural District of Chiredzi, the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) of the Global Environment facility (GEF) has supported a project to enhance the capacity of farmers to adapt to climate variability and change through the adoption of gender-sensitive approaches.

  The project, which is implemented by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), focuses on improving climate change knowledge base of local populations to facilitate adaptation choices; piloting demonstration of policy oriented adaptation practices; and promoting the use of climate early warning systems.

  
  
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  World Resources Report 2010-2011: Decision Making in a Changing Climate

  Created by: admin | 2011-10-24 06:55

  Associated Organization: UNEP

  Summary: Recent extreme weather events including floods, heat waves, and droughts present a vivid image of the direction the world is heading. As climate change intensifies, more events like these, combined with longer-term changes in the climate's average state - including rising seas, melting glaciers, and shifting precipitation patterns - will have profound impacts on people, ecosystems and infrastructure.

  
  
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  IMPACT Business Award 2011

  Created by: anais | 2011-10-13 05:23

  Associated Organization: IMPACT Business Award

  Summary: The IMPACT (Innovative Models Promoting Adaptation and Climate Technologies) Business Award rewards enterprises that apply innovative business solutions in combating Climate Change. The IMPACT Business Award on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) will make a total of up to five International Awards available in 2011. For more information and application, please visit: www.IMPACT-business-award.de

  
  
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  Generator Zero Solar

  Created by: matimbwi | 2011-09-27 09:17

  Associated Organization: Tanzania Renewable Energy Association

  Summary: Generator Zero Solar is aims to sensitize members of community to use the Solar PV Charged Battery Backup System in a place of petrol and diesel generators. The project is implemented in Dar es Salaam. The driver of the intervention is the failure of the National Utility to provide reliable and sustainable electricity.

  
  
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  Indigenous Knowledge in Kenya: Treating milk with wood ash and growing tree seedlings with limited w

  Created by: admin | 2011-09-12 10:07

  Associated Organization: Forestry Action Network

  Summary: Summary of two indigenous knowledge studies conducted in Kenya and published in 1998: - Milk Treatment Using Selected Tree Species: A case study in Trans-Nzoia District, Kenya by W. Mureithi at Moi University. - A Community’s Initiative to Survive in a Semi-Arid Area: The case of Kikapu, Njoro location, Nakuru, Kenya by E M Njoka and P M Makenzi at Egerton University.

  
  
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  Evaluation of the GEF Strategic Priority for Adaptation - july 2011

  Created by: admin | 2011-09-09 05:44

  Associated Organization: GEF

  Summary: In November 2008 the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council asked the GEF Evaluation Office to perform an evaluation of the GEF Strategic Priority for Adaptation (SPA) pilot program. This evaluation was conducted fully and independently by the GEF Evaluation Office with support from the GEF Secre- tariat, GEF Agencies, governments, and civil society organizations.

  
  
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  Experiences of Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

  Created by: admin | 2011-09-07 10:37

  Associated Organization: Ecological Society of Eastern Africa (ESEA)

  Summary: 19 case studies on Climate Change Adaptation in Africa.

  
  
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  Climate Change TV Video Awards now online

  Created by: admin | 2011-09-01 10:51

  Associated Organization: Climate Change TV

  Summary: The first Climate Change TV Video Awards (http://www.climate-change.tv/video-award) are now open with videos submitted from people and organizations all over the world.

  
  
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  Climate and Development Knowledge Network - Advance Notice Global Research Call

  Created by: cdknresearch | 2011-08-22 04:48

  Associated Organization: Climate and Development Knowledge Network

  Summary: CDKN is pleased to give you advance notice of a new global research call on climate compatible development to open on Thursday 1st September 2011. The closing date for applications will be 24th October 2011.

  
  
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  2011 Access to Learning Award: Arid Lands Information Network, Eastern Africa

  Created by: admin | 2011-08-17 10:15

  Associated Organization: ALIN

  Summary: Providing Access to Knowledge in Africa’s Arid Lands Those living in the remote arid lands of Eastern Africa must do without a lot. They typically have no plumbing or electricity. They go for long stretches without rainfall. And they often don’t have easy access to medical care.

  
  
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  Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum 2011

  Created by: admin | 2011-08-16 05:03

  Associated Organization: UNEP

  Summary: The Adaptation Forum 2011 will provide a unique opportunity to share frontline findings and innovations, opportunities and challenges in mainstreaming Climate Change adaptation into development.

  
  
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  2011 START Grants for Global Environmental Change (GEC) Research in Africa

  Created by: admin | 2011-08-08 06:41

  Associated Organization: START

  Summary: START is pleased to announce the grantees for the 2011 START Grants for Global Environmental Change Research in Africa. The theme of this year's Call for Applications was climate change, agriculture, and food security with an emphasis on the sustainability of ecosystem services. In 2011, 16 grants have been awarded to 64 cooperating scientists across 16 African countries.

  
  

• Youth Initiative On Climate Change Adaptation (YICCA)

  Created by: isaac | 2011-08-06 08:57

  Associated Organization: Youth Initiative On Climate Change (YICCA)

  Summary: Youth Initiative on Climate Change Adaptation (YICCA) in Kenya is a national youth response to strengthening local communities’ adaptation to impacts of climate change. YICCA draws young professionals in environmental, meteorological, agricultural, hydrological and social sciences from local institutions of higher learning, relevant corporate organizations and other institutions with an aim at creating caring young professionals who are passionate to avert the impacts of climate change.

  
  
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  The Mantra Project

  Created by: spanda | 2011-07-23 06:32

  Associated Organization: Spanda Foundation

  Summary: Mantra is a project of green micrifinance.

  
  
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  Meet & Greet meeting in Accra, April 2011

  Created by: admin | 2011-07-22 12:27

  Associated Organization: AfricaAdapt

  Summary: Overview of Meet & Greet meeting in Accra, April 2011 Core issues that were highlighted over the course of the discussions.

  
  
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  Call for Abstracts: Planet under Pressure conference

  Created by: admin | 2011-07-18 12:51

  Associated Organization: CCAFS

  Summary: Submitted by AGhosh on 29 June 2011 Filed under: Careers and calls Due 19 August 2011. Abstract submission is now open for Planet Under Pressure 2012: New Knowledge Towards Solutions. This major international science conference focusing on solutions to the global sustainability challenge. This is an open call for participants and for abstracts for presentations and posters to be submitted against a variety of session topics.

  
  
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  Adaptation Stories

  Created by: admin | 2011-07-03 08:51

  Associated Organization: IDRC

  Summary: Adaptation stories Document Type: Case Study, Report Citation: 60 pp. Production Year: 2010 Creator: Fatima Denton and Alioune Badara Kaere

  
  
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  Integrating water with climate change adaptation plans

  Created by: admin | 2011-07-03 08:21

  Associated Organization: AfricaAdapt

  Summary: This policy brief, published by the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, argues that water resource management should not be overlooked in plans for climate change adaptation in Africa. Africa is vulnerable to climate change impacts which are, in large part, connected by water. Rainfall is uneven and unpredictable across different parts of the continent and varies dramatically by season. These variations can bring about floods and severe droughts that can last for years.

  
  
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  Adaptation Market Place

  Created by: admin | 2011-07-03 07:36

  Associated Organization: Oxfam America

  Summary: Adaptation Technologies - The new adaptation marketplace: Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth Climate change is a growing humanitarian crisis that we cannot ignore. Developing innovative ways to adapt to its impacts is a necessity. Policies that address the impact of global warming on the world’s most vulnerable communities can drive the market toward new innovation and stimulate the US economy.

  
  

• Knowledge Sharing Innovation Fund 2011 - DEADLINE EXTENDED

  Created by: binetou | 2011-06-27 16:12

  Associated Organization: AfricaAdapt

  Summary:

  Launch of the 3rd Edition of the AfricaAdapt Knowledge Sharing Innovation Fund