MOU Signing between Yogyakarta City and ICLEI SEA kicks off latest Local Renewables initiative in the city
Yogyakarta, Indonesia – Led by Mayor Drs. H. Haryadi Suyuti and Regional Director Victorino Aquitania respectively, Yogyakarta City and ICLEI Southeast Asia Secretariat (ICLEI SEAS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on March 2, 2012 to kick off the project “Local Renewables: South-South cooperation between cities in India, Indonesia and South Africa” in the city. The project is the latest Local Renewables initiative of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) funded by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). Read more...
- Yogakarta news about the project and MoU signing. [Bahasa]
International project launch workshop
ICLEI South Asia and the Coimbatore Municipal Corporation, with the support of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) launched the project ‘Local Renewables: South-South cooperation between cities in India, Indonesia and South Africa’, at a workshop organized in Coimbatore on 12th December 2011.
With an aim to promote knowledge exchange between cities in the developing world, the project cities of Ekurhuleni, South Africa and Yogyakarta, Indonesia will join ICLEI's Local Renewables (LR) network to increase the uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency at the local level. They will be guided by the resource city of Coimbatore, India, an LR city. Project cities, the host city officials, ICLEI and REEEP representatives, Indian solar cities and local stakeholders from Coimbatore participated in the workshop. The Mayor of Coimbatore, Mr. S M Vellusamy and the Municipal Commissioner, Mr. T K Ponnusamy along with other key officials of the Coimbatore Corporation were present to inaugurate the workshop.
The workshop, spread over two days, consisted of an inaugural day that formally launched the project, and a day of site visits for the visiting participants. The inaugural day consisted of extensive presentations by the cities present about on going and planned initiatives at the local level on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Participants visited Coimbatore's renewable energy and energy efficiency sites, such as the wind-solar PV hybrid system installed at the city-owned bus terminal, the next day.
The workshop provided an opportunity for the international and Indian city officials to interact extensively and to view the range of activities that could be undertaken to comprehensively address the uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency at the local level. Over the next 15 months, the project cities of Ekurhuleni in South Africa and Yogyakarta in Indonesia will go through the steps of the Local Renewables initiative (www.local-renewables.org) with the guidance of Coimbatore.
Source: http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=12595
With an aim to promote knowledge exchange between cities in the developing world, the project cities of Ekurhuleni, South Africa and Yogyakarta, Indonesia will join ICLEI's Local Renewables (LR) network to increase the uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency at the local level. They will be guided by the resource city of Coimbatore, India, an LR city. Project cities, the host city officials, ICLEI and REEEP representatives, Indian solar cities and local stakeholders from Coimbatore participated in the workshop. The Mayor of Coimbatore, Mr. S M Vellusamy and the Municipal Commissioner, Mr. T K Ponnusamy along with other key officials of the Coimbatore Corporation were present to inaugurate the workshop.
The workshop, spread over two days, consisted of an inaugural day that formally launched the project, and a day of site visits for the visiting participants. The inaugural day consisted of extensive presentations by the cities present about on going and planned initiatives at the local level on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Participants visited Coimbatore's renewable energy and energy efficiency sites, such as the wind-solar PV hybrid system installed at the city-owned bus terminal, the next day.
The workshop provided an opportunity for the international and Indian city officials to interact extensively and to view the range of activities that could be undertaken to comprehensively address the uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency at the local level. Over the next 15 months, the project cities of Ekurhuleni in South Africa and Yogyakarta in Indonesia will go through the steps of the Local Renewables initiative (www.local-renewables.org) with the guidance of Coimbatore.
Source: http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=12595
