Washington, D.C., July 23, 2013 – Paul Westbrook, a Senior Fellow in the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), will be traveling July 28 to August 1 2013 to participate in meetings and events in Colombia, including Adaptation to Climate Change and Public Investment in Colombia, hosted by the General Comptroller of the […]

On Friday, July 26th, The Rural Alternatives Center of El Limon (CAREL) will open the first building of its campus. It is a unique and innovative structure with an environmental architecture that reflects its surroundings. The building was constructed using ferrocement and is designed to resist earthquakes and hurricanes. It features a 24 x 32 […]

Washington, D.C., July 15, 2013 – The Academia de Profesionales Solares de las Americas (APSA), a project led by Solar Energy International (SEI) and part of the broader ECPA hemispheric initiative, will be presenting three Spanish-spoken webinars on solar electricity and renewable energy to APSA students, decision makers, media and businesses, in Central America and […]

Washington, DC July 3, 2013 – The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) have recently formalized a partnership to extend knowledge generation, sharing of best practices and support communications and outreach activities with all OAS Department of Sustainable Development (DSD) networks and clearinghouse mechanisms, including ECPA a hemispheric, flexible mechanism for advancing energy security and promoting […]

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) stakeholders in the field of energy, as well as International Development Partners that are active in the regional energy sector will gather in Barbados 11 July, 2013, to discuss initiatives and activities identified as part of the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS) Phase 1 […]

Last week, National Geographic and Shell Energy hosted a roundtable discussion, The Great Energy Challenge: BioFuels at a Crossroad, led by Senior ECPA Fellow Dan Kammen. Partners staff member Elizabeth Lopez also had the opportunity to attend and spoke on biofuels as it relates to Latin America specifically. The round table was attended by two […]