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8 December, 2023. SIDE EVENT IN THE BLUE ZONE
Time: 11:30-13:00, Room: SE room 1
Title: 100% Renewable & Local Solutions: Africa, South Asia & Local Climate Resilience and Poverty Reduction.
Showcasing Community & Eco-Village Development: transition to 100% renewables, climate mitigation, adaptation & resilience with social co-benefits, income generation, food security, livelihoods, gender. Online Catalogues. Examples: Participatory planning & training in Africa, South Asia & around the world.
- Organisers: Global Ecovillage Network (GEN International), INSEDA (INFORSE-South Asia), Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable energy, SusWatch Kenya (INFORSE-EA).

November 2023
Sustainable Energy News issue No. 87

Articles include:
Eco-Village Development in South Asia
NGO Cooperation Projects' Results,
Publications of the Eco-Village Development Projects in South Asia
Online Database of the EVD Solutions in South Asia
EVD project presentation at INFORSE at UNFCCC COP28

Download from: INFORSE, Direct download: SEN 87 (pdf 3.5 MB), 12pp.,

Wednesday: October 4, 2023
SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL WEBINAR: Local Solutions for Climate Adaption Evidences for Policy Making
Successful adaptation results in increased resilience and adaptive capacity and reduced vulnerability in the context of a changing climate. However, adaptation needs could shift as the climate changes, and as development pathways alter the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of communities. Local solutions are known to have adaptation co-benefits – create opportunities, build capacities, diversify livelihood options, improve skill sets, create awareness, and mobilize communities. Yet the local solutions remain under funded with low policy recognition and limited outreach. In the current webinar, the implementers of local solutions would share insights and learnings in engaging with climate issues and the local solutions delivering adaptation co-benefits.
The webinar is being jointly organized by the Eco Village Development project partners: CANSA, INFORSE South Asia, Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh, Center for Rural Technology in Nepal, IDEA in Sri Lanka, and INSEDA in India. The project is coordinated by DIB, Denmark, and is funded by CISU, Denmark
Proceedings will be available at:
CANSA's web site: cansouthasia.net/local-solutions-for-climate-adaption-evidences-for-policy-making
INFORSE Asia's website: inforse.org/asia/EVD.htm

Sustainable Energy News issue No. 86 - November 2022

Themes:
- 30 YEARS INFORSE Anniversary
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP27 in Egypt
- Catalogues: Local Solutions in South Asia, East Africa, Ukraine, Europe.
- Sufficiency - 100% Renewable Scenarios

Download from INFORSE's web site: Sustainable Energy News
Direct download pdf 3 MB

Date: November 12, 2021 - Time: 15:00-16:30
SIDE EVENT IN THE BLUE ZONE
Organised by INFORSE - INSEDA - SusWatch - SE

7-12 November,2022 - Venue: Blue Zone, BOOTH NO: 19
EXHIBITION IN BLUE ZONE

UNFCCC COP27 Policy Brief, 11.12.2022, (pdf 2 p..1 MB)

November 5, 2021 - Time: 11:30-12:45 GMT
UNFCCC COP25 SIDE EVENT: INFORSE - INSEDA - SusWatch - SE
Venue: Loch Lomond Auditorium, Glasgow, UK
Title: Local Climate Solutions & Eco-Village Development, 100% RE in NDCs, East Africa, South Asia, Europe
Policy proposals for local solutions in NDCs & Global Stocktake. Launch catalogues of climate solutions in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), eco-village development in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka), for energy access & gender equality, 100 % renewables: Europe, Kenya, Uganda.
Read Proceedings & link to video: www.inforse.org/cop26.php3
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/634459607557416
Read: INFORSE on UNFCCC COP26 Outcome (pdf)

July 16, 2020
Launch of Eco-Village Development Feasibility Studies in new Climate Zones in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh
Download Executive Summaries: EVD publications

Presentations:

NGO Partners National Perspectives:
- Nepal: by Shovana Maharjan, CRT-N
-Sri Lanka: by Dumindu Herath, IDEA
- Bangladesh: by Mohammad M. Hasan, Grameen Shakti
- India: by Jeebanjyoti Mohanty, INSEDA

Governmental Perspectives:
- Sri Lanka: "Mainstreaming of EVD activities in on-going policies and schemes at sub national levels: Perspectives from Government" - by Leel Randeni, Environmental Planning and Economics Division, Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment, Government of Sri Lanka.
- Nepal: "Renewable Energy technology and ways to scaling up EVD in Nepal" by Dr. K. P. Majagaiya, Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), Government of Nepal.

NGO Climate & Financing Perspectives:
- EVD & Climate: by Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE
- EVD & Financing: by Santosh Patnaik, CANSA

Panel and Discussion moderated by Atiq BCAS

Download: Presentations (134 pp., 8 MB, pdf).

• February 14-16, 2018
Upscaling EVD Project Meeting and Field Visit, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• January 31, 2018
Issue #1 Newsletter on Eco Village Development in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, financing and COP23.
Published by INFORSE-South Asia /INSEDA.
Editors/Authors: Raymond Myles, Regional coordinator, INFORSE-South Asia, Limasangla Jamir, INSEDA, India, Kavita Myles, INSEDA, Dumindu Herath, IDEA, Sri Lanka. Mahmodul Hasan, Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh,.Shovana Maharjan, CRT, Nepal. Santosh Patnaik, CANSA, Zareen Myles, WAFD, India. Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE.
Download: Newsletter Issue #1 (18 pp. pdf 3.9 MB).

• November 6-17, 2017, Bonn, Germany - UNFCCC COP23
INFORSE Exhibition and Side Event

Download: Program and Policy Brief

• November 9, 2017: Side Event with INFORSE-South Asia participation
Presentations from the EVD South Asia Project:

- India: by Zareen Myles, WAFD (pdf, 2.5 MB)

- Nepal: by Shovana Maharjan, CRT-N (pdf, 1.5 MB)

- Sri Lanka: by Dumindu Herath, IDEA (pdf, 1.5 MB)

- Bangladesh: by Mohammad M. Hasan, Grameen Shakti (pdf 0.5 MB)

- Launch Report on Mitigation: by Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE (pdf, 0.5 MB)

- Finance by Santosh Patnaik, CANSA (pdf, 0.4 MB)

- Paris Rule Book by Jeebanjyoti Mohanty, INSEDA (pdf, 0.3 MB)

- UNFCCC COP23 Policy Brief, 9.11.2017, (pdf 1 p., 0.1 MB)

Full Proceedings is available at INFORSE at COP23

• November 9, 2017
Launch of Report: Greenhouse Emission Reduction Potential of Eco-Village Development (EVD) Solutions in South Asia

Download the Report, November 2017 (pdf file, 36 pages))

• June - October, 2017
National & District Level Dialogue Meetings:

India
July 26, Round Table: Role of Women in EVD in New Delhi
Proceedings (6pp. 0.3MB); and Recommendations (2 pp. 0.5MB)
June 8, National Dialogue Follow Up Meeting, New Delhi

Nepal:
October 31, Initiation Meeting in Bethanchok Rural Municipality, Kavre.
Proceedings, pdf on CRT's website.
July 7, National Dialogue Meeting and field visit at field visit at Dhungkharka Proceedings, July 7 (9 pp., 1.2 MB, pdf)
April 7. Workshop in Bougainvilla, Kathmandu, Proceedings Apr. 7 (12 pp, 1.3 MB, pdf),

Sri Lanka:
September 22, 2017 Awareness Workshop, Matala
July 31, National Event Proceedings (26 pp., 2.5 MB, pdf)
July 8-10, Environmental Day Exhibitions

Bangladesh:
August, National Dialogue Follow Up meeting in Dhaka
June 21, National Dialogue Meeting and Seminar in Dhaka Proceedings (2pp, 1 MB).

See more at: INFORSE-South Asia facebook and Sustainable Energy News No. 80

• 17-19 October, 2016
The 5th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
Colombo, Sri Lanka

• 18, October, 2016
The Eco-Village Development Concept presented by Project Partners at the 5th APAN Conference's Parallel Session: “Coordinating Policy Initiatives for Adaptation' in South Asia”, Sri Lanka.

Panel representatives from the EVD Project: Neerash Shrestha, CRT/N, Nepal; Dumindu Herath, IDEA, Sri Lanka; Raymond Myles INSEDA, India; Zareen Myles WAFD, India; Santosh Patnaik, CANSA

Closing remarks: Vinod Menon, National Disaster Management Authority, India.
Moderator: Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.

Read more: Proceedings (0.9 MB, pdf);, and presentation by IDEA Sri Lanka (1.2 MB), presentation by CRT Nepal (3.6 MB). and EVD in APAN Proceedings (1 page 0.2 MB).
Official website of the 5th APAN Conference.

Publication: Eco-Village Development as Climate Solution - Proposals from South Asia
Link to Publication's Contents

• 20 May, 2016
UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - SB 44
INFORSE SIDE EVENT, Bonn, Germany
Time: 16:45 - 18:15, Room: Berlin

Title: South Asian Eco-Village Solutions in NDCs and Climate Finance: Renewable Energy, Organic Farming

How can local, village-level development solutions that mitigate climate change be integrated in the climate actions following the COP21: in the NDCs, in climate financing and in the technology mechanism. Presentations from South Asia with successful solutions. International perspective.

Moderator: Lykke Valentin Kristiansen, DIB, Denmark
-- "Eco-Village Development: A Solution to Bridging the Gap Between Climate Intentions and Action".
---Setting the stage in South Asia: India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
---by Kavita Shriya Myles, INFORSE-South Asia & INSEDA, WAFD India. ( pdf file, 2.1 MB)
-- INDC of Bangladesh & Approach of Eco-Village Development (EVD) for Achieving Sustainability.
---by M. Mahmodul Hasan, Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh. ( pdf file, 0.6 MB)
-- Linking Eco Village Development (EVD) to INDCs and National Agendas of Sri Lanka.
- --by Dumindu Indika Herath, IDEA, Sri Lanka. ( pdf file, 0.8 MB)
-- Accessing Climate Finance for EVD in South Asia
- --by Anoop Poonia, CAN South Asia. ( pdf file, 0.6 MB)
-- EVD as Climate Solution in South Asia: Local Solutions Technology Needs, Mitigation Effects;
----Launch of Updated Publication, and Policy Brief.
- --by Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE. ( pdf file, 0.4 MB)

- _Program Leaflet ( pdf, 1 page, 334 kB)
- _Full Proceedings at INFORSE at UNFCCC SB 44.

• 9 May, 2016 - Nepal

Seminar and Nepalese National Dialogue Meeting on Eco-Village Development (EVD)
More than 50 people participated at the event organized by CRT-Nepal.

Download the 16-page Proceedings (1.44 MB pdf file), which includes introduction, summaries of the speakers, list of participants, and pictures.

At the event, there was a small-scale model of an "eco-village" to illustrate the different technologies and development to the audience. (See on the photo to the left).

• December 3, 2015 - UNFCCC COP21 Side Event, Blue Zone, Paris, France

POLCY BRIEF:
Eco-village Development as Climate Solution, Proposals from South Asia
Download: Policy Brief (0.5MB, 6 pages)

PUBLICATION:
Launch of the Eco-Village Development Concept
- First Edition: December 3, 2015. We are collecting comments, and this first version will be revised.
The publication was updated in May and August, 2016. (See above)

• December, 2015

Article on the Eco-Village Development Project in Sustainable Energy News, Issue No. 77

Download the article: (pdf 0,6 MB, 3 pages)

Download the full issue from INFORSE's web site Sustainable Energy News.

• June 10, 2015 - Bonn, Germany

Project Presented at INFORSE - UNFCCC Side Event in Bonn - SBI 42 Pre Conference to COP21 in Paris.
Read more: Proceedings.

Policy Brief: "Eco-village Development as Climate Solution"
Download Policy Brief, 4 pages. (pdf, 0.2 MB)

Fund for Climate and Environment administered by CISU - Civil Society in Development (www.cisu.dk), which is an association of 280+ Danish non-profit, membership-based NGOs / CSOs. The Fund is financed by DANIDA.