INFORSE-Europe

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INFORSE-Europe
File:INFORSE-Europe-logo.png
Founded 1994, (Bylaws) 2002 (Registration)
Founder European NGOs
Type Network of European NGOs, grassroot organisations
Focus sustainable energy environmentalism
Location
  • Aarhus,Denmark
Area served
 Europe
Method newsletter, education, research, lobbying
Members
 85 NGOs from 35 European countries
Key people
 Ursel Beckmann (president) Gunnar Boye Olesen, Ion Zamfir (coordinators)
Slogan 100 % renewables
Website http://www.inforse.org/europe

INFORSE- Europe is an international, non-profit organisation (NGO) network of European environmental organizations promoting sustainable energy development within Europe; and worldwide in cooperation with other INFORSE regions. INFORSE-Europe consists of 85 NGO members in 35 European countries.

Activities

INFORSE-Europe develops scenarios for a transition to a 100% renewable energy supply by 2050, lately by 2030. The scenario model's name is INFORSE Vision 2050.,.[1][2] The models are developed for global, EU-27,[3][4][5] and several European countries together with members like Denmark,[6][7][8] Hungary,[9][10] Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estland and others. The UK member, Center for Alternative Technology, developed the ZeroCarbonBritain.[11] To reach local or regional 100% renewable energy, energy planning was facilitated by members in three regions of Belarus,[12][13] and in Poland with local public participation. [14] To facilitate networking among NGOs and researchers the Low Carbon Societies Network was established initiated together with Germanwatch, CAN-France, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and CIRED in France.[15]

The network maintains a publicly open online database of NGO's and governmental and research organizations,[16] and organises NGO seminars,[17] events at EU Green Week[18] and '09,[19] EUSEW,[20][21] and at the Conferences of UNFCCC, and at Rio+20 together with other NGOs.

Many of the members are active in education. Therefore, collection of school materials on energy and climate,[22] and of sustainable energy successes,[23] were developed as well as an online course (DIERET),[24] and has cooperation with SPARE, a sustainable energy education project in 16 countries.[25]

INFORSE-Europe is registered in the EU Transparency Register since 2008,[26] and participates in the Coolproducts coalition of European environmental NGOs ( European Environmental Bureau, BEUC, European Environmental Citizens’ Organisation for Standardisation, CAN-Europe, FOE-Europe and others) lobbying for ambitious EU Ecodesign and energy labelling directive regulations.[27] Positions are prepared together with these organisations.,[28] ,[29] ,[30] [31] The network's opinions are also collected on a web-based resources on EU policy,[32]

Publications

  • Sustainable Energy News published since 1992.[33]
  • DIERET Online Education in English,[34] Russian,[35] and Slovakian.[36]
  • NGO Views: Climate Change Policy in New EU Countries and Macedonia, published in 2010.[37]
  • Sustainable Energy Handbook for NGOs and Local Groups (INFORSE), published in 1993 in Danish, English, Polish, Hungarian, and Russian.[38]

History

INFORSE was established by NGOs at the Earth Summit (Global Forum), which was a parallel forum to the UNCED Conference in 1992. INFORSE has consultative status to United Nations' ECOSOC since 1998 and at UNFCCC since 2002. INFORSE-Europe made its Bylaws in 1994.,[39] and became officially registered in Denmark in 2002. A five-member Board and two coordinators are elected at the bi-annual General Assembly since then. The INFORSE-Europe became Campaign Associates to the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign Initiative in 2005. European NGO Energy Policy Seminars are organised since 1992. INFORSE-Europe received the European Solar Prize from EUROSOLAR in 2009 in the category: One world cooperation.[40]

Members

Among the 85 members from 35 European countries[41] there are Danish Organisation for Renewable Energy (OVE), Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy,[42] Samsø Energy Academy in Denmark,[43] Centre for Alternative Technology in the United Kingdom, Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature (FoE) in Norway; GERES, CLER, Helio from France; Polish Ecological Club (PKE-OG) and KISE from Poland; Atgaja, Green Policy Institute in Lithuania; Mother Earth, Brabant Ecologi, APERe, EREF in Belgium; Zelena Akcija (FoE) in Croatia, Za Zemiata For The Earth in Bulgaria; Eco-svest, Proaktiva, Front21/42 in Macedonia; Green Movement (LGM) in Latvia, and ARIN, TERRA, and Prietenii Pamantului (For the Earth) in Romania.

References

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