Belarus joined Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) in 2010 and the first phase of wastewater treatment projects in Vitebsk, Grodno and Brest has now entered an implementation phase. NDEP grants of EUR 6 million have attracted IFI loans and additional bilateral grants from Finland and Sweden. The total financing package for the three cities is approximately EUR 70 million. Encouraged …
Report: Energy and Transport – Key results and recommendations (2014) Filip Ehrle Elveling (Editor), Hans-Olof Dahlberg, Hans Fridberg, Lars Hasselager-Olsen, Ágústa Loftsdóttir, Lars Nilsson, Mogens Schrøder Bech, Erlend Solem, Per-Andre Torper and Tom Warras The Energy and Transport programme, spanning from 2010 to 2014, has aimed to contribute to making the Nordic region a leading region in Europe for developing, …
Horizon 2020 Energy Efficiency Information Day will be held on 12 December 2014 in Brussels. In the Information Day you will… Get an update on the European policy on sustainable energy. Learn about the energy efficiency priorities of the 2015 Horizon 2020 calls. Find out how to apply for funding. Participate in sessions dedicated to the different funding areas, meet …
Logistics is an important competitive factor for the offshore wind industry. With a share of up to 20% of total cost, logistics expenses have a significant impact on the profitability of a wind farm. However, compared to other industries, the wind energy sector is still far away from transparency in logistics costs. A particular challenge for the maritime supply chain …
Norwegian-Russian cooperation – The path behind us and the path ahead The Research Council of Norway arranges a Norwegian-Russian conference on petroleum resources, energy-political cooperation and social development in the Arctic region. The conference will be held on 19.-20. Nov. 2014 in Oslo, Norway. For more information and registration please see the Research Council of Norway website.
Nordic Environment Finance Corporation NEFCO which currently chairs Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) has published NDEP manager Jaakko Henttonen’s interview on its website. To learn more about NDEP’s important work, read the interview on NEFCO’s website.
The project “Energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions in Kaliningrad Oblast” (RENSOL) is ending after almost three years. NDI has been one of the project partners and Baltic Development Forum (BDF) has led the implementation work. Now there is a story about the RENSOL project in the latest BDF Newsletter. You can find the Newsletter here. The project’s key focus …
Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) assumed the chairmanship for the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) from 1 July 2014. NEFCO will manage the activities of the Steering Group, which is responsible for coordinating environmental development projects in the Northern Dimension Area of Northwest Russia and Northern Belarus. The chairmanship rotates yearly. Learn more on NEFCO’s chairmanship.
On May 2, 2014, the Belmont Forum will open a call for proposal on biodiversity scenarios. The objective is to stimulate the formation of international networks of scientists and the advancement of the inter- and trans-disciplinary methodologies of scenario-building needed to enhance usefulness of biodiversity scenarios in decision-making.
A new global research funding programme on Transformations to Sustainability (ISSC) Deadline for submissions is 31 May 2014. Transformations to Sustainability will promote research on the most urgent problems of global change and sustainability — including climate change, biodiversity loss, water and food security, energy consumption, and poverty and growing inequalities.
