INFORSE-Europe
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| Founded | 1994, (Bylaws) 2002 (Registration) |
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| Founder | European NGOs |
| Type | Network of European NGOs, grassroot organisations |
| Focus | sustainable energy environmentalism |
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Area served
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Europe |
| Method | newsletter, education, research, lobbying |
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Members
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85 NGOs from 35 European countries |
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Key people
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Ursel Beckmann (president) Gunnar Boye Olesen, Ion Zamfir (coordinators) |
| Slogan | 100 % renewables |
| Website | http://www.inforse.org/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 85 NGO members in 35 European countries.
INFORSE-Europe develops scenarios for a transition to a 100% renewable energy supply by 2050, lately by 2030. The scenario model's name is INFORSE Vision 2050.,. The models are developed for global, EU-27, and several European countries together with members like Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estland and others. The UK member, Center for Alternative Technology, developed the ZeroCarbonBritain. To reach local or regional 100% renewable energy, energy planning was facilitated by members in three regions of Belarus, and in Poland with local public participation. To facilitate networking among NGOs and researchers the Low Carbon Societies Network was established initiated together with Germanwatch, CAN-France, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and CIRED in France.
The network maintains a publicly open online database of NGO's and governmental and research organizations, and organises NGO seminars, events at EU Green Week and '09, EUSEW, and at the Conferences of UNFCCC, and at Rio+20 together with other NGOs.
Many of the members are active in education. Therefore, collection of school materials on energy and climate, and of sustainable energy successes, were developed as well as an online course (DIERET), and has cooperation with SPARE, a sustainable energy education project in 16 countries.
INFORSE-Europe is registered in the EU Transparency Register since 2008, and participates in the Coolproducts coalition of European environmental NGOs ( European Environmental Bureau, BEUC, European Environmental Citizens’ Organisation for Standardisation, CAN-Europe, FOE-Europe and others) lobbying for ambitious EU Ecodesign and energy labelling directive regulations. Positions are prepared together with these organisations., , , The network's opinions are also collected on a web-based resources on EU policy,
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