Fiji’s national tourist office and key players in the destination’s tourism, hotel and business sectors are joining resources with Australian-based clean technology specialist Greenlight Technology Group (GLTG) in a project funded by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP).

On October 21, 2009 the Congress’ Alternative Energy Sources Commission convened a hearing at which it approved a reform to Brazil’s current renewable energy legislation.

A single loan for approximately €1.4 million will support the development of jatropha nursery plantations, to raise seedlings for distribution to over 26,000 farmers in six states in India. This transaction, developed by YES Bank Ltd (YBL) is the second one to close under a finance bundling project that is executed in partnership by YBL and Environment Energy and Enterprise Ventures (e3V), with some financial support from REEEP.

At first glance, the industrial boomtown of Panzhihua, China is an unlikely place for cutting edge sustainability efforts. To most Chinese, the city’s name is synonymous with “Pangang” or the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Company, southwestern China's largest steel producer.

Thanks to a REEEP project, cash-poor Pacific island villagers who often have no access to banking systems are able to trade cassava, dalo, bananas and other crops as payments for an LED solar lighting system to replace kerosene lanterns. This also leads to a considerable savings in fuel costs: in the Solomon Islands, kerosene will cost a typical household the equivalent of about €0.63 per day, while the value of the crops traded for solar LED amounts to less than half that, at €0.28 per day.