The GERES newsletter

n° 5 - June 2013

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Mobilisation against fuel poverty in Europe

Between 50 million and 125 million people in Europe are estimated to be fuel poor.The Intelligent Energy Europe supported projects ACHIEVE and EC-LINC are pan-European actions aiming at developing large-scale energy advice services, towards low-income households facing difficulties with their energy bills.
On the 27th of June in the morning, ACHIEVE and EC LINC partners, with the support of ManagEnergy, are organising the workshop "Discover concrete solutions on how to tackle fuel poverty within your territory."

GERES who leads ACHIEVE project in France just released a movie featuring the project approach.

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From the field

StovePlus: aiming for the dissemination of improved coostoves worldwide

ased on its 15 year of improve cookstoves experience in Cambodia, GERES has launched StovePlus, a program aimed at strengthening the clean cooking sector and providing technical support to project developers in South-East Asia and West Africa.
StovePlus, in close link with the work led by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), will contribute to the large scale dissemination of clean cooking solutions in these two regions.

From June 26th to 28th, 2013, the StovePlus team will be in Bonn to take part in the International Cooking Energy Forum organized by the German government and the GACC..

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Publications of the month

Bioclimatic housing in Central Asia

Three new publications have just been released concerning the capitalization of the "Passive Solar Housing" project (PSH) recently carried out ; and more broadly about bioclimatic construction in upland regions.

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Sustainable charcoal in Cambodia

To improve understanding of problems of deforestation and issues related to the use of biomass in this country, the video of the SCP project (Sustainable Charcoal Production) gives an assessment of the situation and shows solutions to build chains of legal wood charcoal environmentally-responsible.

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Our partner's corner

Lord Michelham of Hellingly Foundation

A long-standing GERES partner, the Foundation began supporting our passive solar greenhouses and houses project in the Indian Himalayas in 2004. Since 2012, it has continued to support projects in West Africa, focusing on improved access to productive and domestic energy and, from this year, the structuring of low-energy domestic cooker supply chains in Mali (Bamako and Sikasso).

CO2Solidaire

Co-funding a development project throught carbon offsetting

In response to the energy challenges in Afghanistan, GERES has been running programmes since 2002 based on energy efficiency in housing.
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings using passive solar architecture techniques together with thermal insulation can reduce energy consumption by around 50%, with investment overcosts of less than 10%. As a result of fuel savings, each of the 3 000 houses with a conservatory providing heating will save at least 1.5 tonnes CO2 equivalent per year. To complement institutional grants, GERES relies on carbon offsetting to fund this project. The film "Bioclimatic housing in Afghanistan", produced by Benjamin Rogez and Mathilde Sonnet on behalf of CO2Solidaire, provides a good grasp of this mechanism for promoting social carbon.

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GERES is recruiting

Administration & Finance Regional Coordinator in Tajikistan

The Administration & Finance Coordinator assists the Regional Director "Central Asia & Himalayas" on all administrative and financial aspects related to the regional office and the GERES offices in the region: in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, India and other countries where GERES may initiate projects.

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