INFORSE-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 70 NGO members in 30 European countries.
Activities
- Develops scenarios for a transition to a 100 % renewables energy supply by 2050. A global, EU-27 and national models are developed for Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus, and Romania. The models name is INFORSE Vision 2050. ,
- Maintains the European section of the INFORSE's worldwide database of contacts , web based resources on EU policy , school materials on energy and climate , successes
- Online course (DIERET)
- Cooperation with SPARE, a sustainable energy education project in 16 countries .
- Quarterly newsletter: Sustainable Energy News (SEN)
- Participation on UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and UNFCCC as an INFORSE observer and side event organiser, as INFORSE has consultative NGO status to ECOSOC.
- Participation on EU Consultations, Press Releases .
- Organising European NGO Policy Seminars.
- In 2007-08, INFORSE-Europe is making EU Ecodesign Standardisation Positions together with ECOS, the European Environmental Bureau, Climate Action Network-Europe, Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature.
History
- In 1992, INFORSE was established at the Earth Summit (Global Forum), which was a parallel forum to the UNCED Conference. INFORSE has consultative status to United Nation's ECOSOC.
- In 1994, INFORSE-Europe made its Bylaws.
- In 2002, INFORSE-Europe became officially registered in Denmark.
- In 2005-2008, INFORSE-Europe became Campaign Associates to the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign 2005-08 Initiative. and as such participted on the EU Sustainable Energy weeks ,
- Annual European NGO Policy Seminars organised since 1992, as well as EU NGO Policy seminars organised in Brussels since 2002. ,
Members
Among the 70 members from 30 European countries are:
- Danish Organisation for Renewable Energy (OVE)
- Centre for Alternative Technology
- Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature
- GERES, CLER, Helio in France
- Polish Ecological Club (PKE-OG)in Poland.
External links
INFORSE-Europe' communication language is English, but the description is available in several languages:
- INFORSE-Europe in Spanish
- INFORSE-Europe in Russian
- INFORSE-Europe in French
- INFORSE-Europe in Hungarian
- INFORSE-Europe in Portuguese
- INFORSE-Europe in Slovak
- INFORSE-Europe in Turkish
- INFORSE-Europe in Macedonian
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