In his latest video, EUROSOLAR president Prof. Peter Droege identifies 10 measures that must now take place to counter the climate crisis.
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They call them ‘microgrid girls’. In Yemen, ten women are running a solar station 20 miles from the front line in Abs, a rural area near the border of Saudi Arabia. Five years of war left the country destroyed and access to electricity was limited and expensive. When the COVID-19-Crisis hit the country, the women felt compelled to act.
Today! The award ceremony is taking place online on Wednesday, 2 December from 2 pm CET
The success of the energy transition depends crucially on innovation and commitment from all parts of society. EUROSOLAR is proud to honor true changemakers of 2020 with the European Solar Prize. The Solar Prize is awarded to cities, communities, architects, municipal and private-sector companies, associations, organisations and cooperatives, journalists and citizens. In these difficult times we are happy to celebrate the achievements of our winners together online.
We're looking forward to guest from around the world! Join us at 2 pm CET / 8 am EST / 4 pm JST / 18 pm AEST
Watch the awarding ceremony live online:
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Last week's online workshop on Intelligent Renewable Infrastructures for Sustainable Transport
Last week, as an integral part of the Intergovernmental 13th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia, LISD, IRENA, WCRE and EUROSOLAR with UNCRD co-organized the live online post-event workshop on Intelligent Renewable Infrastructures for Sustainable Transport.
Much more powerful methods are needed than those currently used in Germany, Europe and worldwide at cabinet and parliamentary levels: one that is tantamount to a general mobilization.
This includes the requirements and concepts of this 10-point plan:
After the international board of EUROSOLAR e.V. had passed the call for the Renewable Decade in February, it is now putting in a ten-point plan to ring in a renewable age. The tenor: 100 percent renewable energies are only the beginning of necessary climate stabilization.
On October 16th, 2020 at 11h30 CET summer time (GMT+2) the Energy Endeavour Foundation will host a webinar to present information on the Solar Decathlon Europe 2023 Call for Cities. Interested cities across Europe can dial in for this virtual presentation through a scheduled ZOOM meeting. The webinar will provide a short, comprehensive recap of the SDE23 Call for Cities and review important information regarding timelines, requirements and criteria for bidding cities.
Find more information and the Link to the Webinar on the Website of Solar Decathlon Europe.
By Thilo Werner
In the last six month, mankind learned to live with a deadly virus spread all around the globe. In terms of the global economy being devastated by the consequences of the pandemic, the European Union reached an agreement on a billion dollar aid parcel. Countries all over the world had to invest trillions into the recovery effort.
By Thilo Werner
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to build one of the world’s largest oil refineries. With the aim of transforming Nigeria’s economy, he could create up to 70,000 jobs.
But not only are the corruption of Nigeria’s political and economic elite, the Covid-19-pandemic and the collapse of the oil price difficult challenges that need to be faced to reach the aim of an independent and sustainable Nigerian economy. Moreover, Dangote’s project, portrayed as an alleged symbol of hope and Nigerian progress, is not sustainable, yet modern, at all.
On the Spanish website Energías renovables, Pep Puig, chairman auf the Catalan and Spanish section of EUROSOLAR, points out:
The health emergency of the coronavirus clearly shows us that the continuation of the path of the 20th century leads us into the abyss. At the same time, it offers us the opportunity to rethink our society and rebuild it on the basis of a new worldview that sees the Earth as a planet where life means respecting certain boundaries. And one of these is the solar constant, because although our planet is a closed system in terms of materials, it is an open system in terms of energy, where life is based on the use of solar energy.