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 consists of 70 NGO members in 30 European countries.
INFORSE-Europe Activities
INFORSE-Europe Activities
- Develops scenarios for a transition to a 100% renewable energy supply by 2050. A global, EU-27 and national models are developed for Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus, and Romania. The model's 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.
- Exhibition at EU Green Week'05 and '09, and EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2008
Founders | European NGOs |
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Type | Network of European NGOs, grassroot organisations |
Founded | 1994, (Bylaws) 2002 (Registration) |
Location | Denmark |
Key people | Gunnar Boye Olesen, Emil Bedi (coordinators) |
Area served | Europe |
Focus | sustainable energy environmentalism |
Method | newsletter, education, research, lobbying |
Members | 70 NGOs from 30 European countries |
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