INFORSE is attending the UNFCCC COP 17 in Durban, South Africa

- INFORSE Exhibition - Date: November 28 - December 9, 2011
The INFORSE exhibition is organised in cooperation with World Future Council (WFC).
INFORSE and NGO members: Renewables for Development: Solar, wind, hydro, efficient stoves. Visions for 100% Sustainable Energy. Education: Schools SPARE, online DIERET. Moving solar kits. Free publications. WFC presents best policies for RE, climate finance and sustainable city development.

- Side Event: Renewable Energy Policies for Climate Resilience, Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
Date: December 2, 2011, 16:45 - 18:15, Room: Indwe River
Organised in cooperation with INFORSE, HELIO and The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC).
Presentations from Africa and Asia by INFORSE and HELIO Network members - Real-life efforts to use renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions for GHG emission mitigation, development and poverty reduction. - Tools to climate-proof supporting energy policies including results from cases.

Proceedings of the Side Event:

- Pierre Dembele, Mali Folkecenter, Case: Local Use of Jatropha Oil for Rural Electrification in Mali: Garalo Project - A New Paradigm of Energy for Sustainable Development. Presentation slides (pdf 225 kB)
- Hamid Taybo, Adel-Sofala, Mozambique, Case: Improved Cook Stoves Saving Energy and Opportunities for Business, Success with local renewable energy in the Sofala province, project with VE Denmark. Presentation slides (pdf 235 kB)
- Michel Takam, ADEID, Cameroon, Case: Micro-hydro in Cameroon. Presentation slides (pdf 414 kB)
- Raymond Myles, INFORSE South Asia/INSEDA, India, Case: Household Biogas Plant (BGP) with Climate Mitigation, Carbon Credit under VER for BGP built by INSEDA members and Partners in India. Presentation slides (pdf 900 kB)
- Usha Nair, AIWC, All India Women Conference, Cases: Solar food dryers, solar lanterns to income generation from India. Presentation slides (pdf 580 kB)
- Tanay Sidki Uyar, Eurosolar Turkey, 100% Renewable Energy is More Possible in Turkey, Experiences and proposals for local renewable energy in emerging economies. Presentation slides (pdf 963 kB)
- Djimingue Nanasta, INFORSE-West Africa/ENDA, Senegal, Case: Access to Improved Oven for Fish Smoking and Women Entrepreneurship in Senegal. Presentation slides (pdf 210 kB)
- Timothy Byakola, INFORSE-East Africa/CDI, Uganda, Policy Recommendations Scaling up Access to Clean Energy Services for the Poor East Africa. Presentation slides (pdf 243 kB)

- Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE (summary of proposals, NGO proposals for climate policies)

- Laura Williamson, HELIO International, Ecodevelopment and Resilient Energy Policies. Presentation slides (pdf 566 kB)
- Sylvain Defo, Ministère de l’Energie et de l’Eau (Cameroon)
- Tcharabalo Abiyou, Ministère des Mines, de l’énergie et de l’Eau. (Togo)

- Niclas Hällström, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation on Bottom-up Renewable Energy Revolution: Global Feed-in Tariffs


INFORSE participated also on the Side Event of the Southern Voices Programme on Climate Change organised in cooperation with CAN-International:
Date: December 6, 2011, Time: 11.30-13.00, Room: Hex River

During this conference, there was also a meeting about the "Southern Voices on Climate Change Capacity Building Programme". Read about the project at INFORSE-Asia and INFORSE-Africa.

From INFORSE and INFORSE members the following delegates participate among others:
- Gunnar Boye Olesen, leader of the INFORSE Delegation / Danish 92-Group
- Raymond Myles, INFORSE-South Asia / INSEDA, India
- Timothy Byakola, INFORSE-East Africa /CDI, Uganda
- Secou Sarr, INFORSE-West Africa / ENDA, Senegal
- Djimingue Nanasta, INFORSE-West Africa / ENDA, Senegal
- Pierre Dembele, INFORSE-West Africa / Mali Folkecenter, Mali
- Usha Nair, INFORSE - South Asia / AIWC, All India Women Conference, India
- Zareen Myles, INFORSE South Asia, WAFD, India
- Ursel Beckmann, INFORSE-Europe / Ecoact, Germany
- Hamid Taybo, INFORSE - Africa / Adel-Sofala, Mozambique
- Laura Williamson, HELIO-International, France
- Tanay Sidki Uyar, INFORSE-Europe / Eurosolar Turkey
- Olga Senova, Friends of Baltic, Russia
- Andriy Martynyuk, Ecoclub, Ukraine

More:
UNFCCC COP17 Side Events Schedule
UNFCCCCOP17 List of Exhibitors

The Official Host site of the UNFCCC COP17 Durban
and the COP17 of the Official site of UNFCCC.

Previous UNFCCC COPs:

- INFORSE at COP16 in 2010 in Cancún, Mexico.
- INFORSE at COP15 in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- INFORSE's Position Paper on Climate Change (INFORSE's Position pdf file 99kB) at the start of COP15, 7 December, 2009.
- INFORSE's brief analysis of the outcome of COP15 (INFORSE's Analysis pdf file 64 kB), 21 December, 2009.
- INFORSE at COP14 in 2008 in Poznan, Poland.

See other INFORSE participation at UN Conferences