REEEP Publishes Linked Open Data: The Essentials – The Climate Knowledge Brokering Edition

Following the success of the original ‘Linked Open Data: The Essentials’, which was published in 2012, REEEP is proud to present a new, updated edition with a focus on the use of Linked Open Data for climate knowledge brokering.

Latest Updates from REEEP at COP22

Follow the REEEP delegation on this page, which will be updated throughout the following weeks with the latest photos and impressions from COP22.

SECP: Green Business Development for Agricultural and Waste Management MSMEs

As part of the SWITCH Africa Green Programme (an initiative funded by the European Union, and implemented by the UNDP; UNOPS; and UNEP), work is being carried out on a South African based project with a core focus on SECP (Sustainable Energy Consumption and Production), a term coined by REEEP.

Renewables Tagger: A New Climate Tagger Feature, Developed by IRENA and REEEP

Climate Tagger is a suite of tools that was originally developed in 2011.
Utilizing the power of Linked Open Data and backed by REEEP's expansive Climate Smart Thesaurus, which was compiled with the help of over 50 experts in the field, Climate Tagger tags online resources with keywords automatically extracted from the text. Users can then choose to make their resources searchable by keywords, to have climate tagger recommend similar resources on their own or other websites, and even to provide definitions and translations for the keywords. The tool currently has around 200 registered users.
Most recently, an IRENA-REEEP collaboration has made possible the development of the brand-new Renewables Tagger: an extensive overhaul of thesaurus content related to renewable energy concepts and terminologies, as well as a new technical feature which allows users to pre-select only this new section of the thesaurus for tagging.

Towards a common vocabulary for climate change - part 2: reflections and next steps

As the Open Knowledge Hub project has evolved we’ve seen a number of exciting new ideas and collaborations emerge from among the project partners that really push forward the Open Knowledge agenda.
A good example of this came from a subset of partners with a shared interest in climate knowledge sharing. The project partners – Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) had identified an opportunity to learn from each other to improve how the climate change information they held was being structured and described. They also recognised that working together to address this issue should not only improve their ability to share their own information effectively but could also make a wider contribution of value to other knowledge brokers in the sector.

Call for Partners in new Kyrgyzstan Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Education and Technology Centre

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have issued a Call for Partners as they set up a Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Education and Technology Centre in Bishkek/Kyrgyzstan.

Redavia secures growth stage investment

REEEP Partner Redavia has secured an investment commitment for up to USD 5m from InfraCo Africa to scale-up its rental solar business in Tanzania.

MOOC “Powering Agriculture – Sustainable Energy for Food” Kick-off on February 1st

The global initiative “Powering Agriculture – An Energy Grand Challenge for Development” (PAEGC) together with TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences is launching a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Further participating organizations are the Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Tetra Tech, the World Bank, as well as the Center for Development Research (ZEF). The 8-week course, which will run from February 1st to March 27th 2016, introduces challenges and solutions for sustainable energy use in the agriculture and food sector.

Towards a Common Vocabulary for Climate Change

This blog article has been written collaboratively by the project team.

Locating good quality and relevant information to help address climate change can be a challenging and time consuming task. Paradoxically, in an increasingly interconnected and information rich world, the sheer volume of information being produced globally and the multiplicity of possible sources can make identifying and accessing the right information for your own particular context and needs increasingly difficult.

CDKN and HELIO International release Inside Story on Smart Energy Pathways for West Africa

One initiative to overcome energy challenges in West Africa's Benin, Mali and Togo is the ‘Energy, Ecodevelopment and Resilience in Africa (EERA)’ project, which focuses on reinforcing national technical and institutional capacities and is implementing a multi-sectoral participatory approach to decision-making in each country. This goes beyond the ministries in charge of energy and includes analyses of national energy systems and policies.

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