“This Tuesday, I’ll lay out my vision for where I believe we need to go – a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change and lead global efforts to fight it,” said President Obama through his Twitter account. President Obama has chosen Georgetown University for tomorrow’s public […]

Featured guests are: · Segment ‘1’: Mark Lambrides, Division Chief, Energy and Climate Change, Department of Sustainable Development, Organization of American States (OAS), o 6:30 – 6:43 P.M. U.S. ET; · Segment ‘2’: Juan Cruz Monticelli, Senior Energy Specialist, Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) Clearinghouse, Organization of American States (OAS), o 6:45 […]

Washington, D.C., June 20, 2013 – Jeff Soule, a Senior Fellow in the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), will be traveling June 22nd-27th to participate in meetings and events in Barbados including Heritage Month activities. Senior ECPA Fellow Jeff Soule works as the Director of Outreach and International Programs at the American […]

This is a sneak peek of the lecture that Senior ECPA Fellow Jeff Soule will be presenting during his Public Lecture at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society on Monday, June 24. *** The topic of our discussion is management of the urban landscape and how to not only preserve the integrity of the fabric […]

Lower prices and new technologies are making solar, wind and other resources competitive with fossil fuels for power generation Latin America and the Caribbean’s renewable energy endowment is large enough to cover its projected 2050 electricity needs 22 times over, according to a new report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The report, Rethinking […]

Nearly 22 percent of the world’s electricity is now supplied by renewable energy, and Central America is part of this global transition. The region is a worldwide leader in hydropower and geothermal energy, and most Central American countries are developing wind power projects. Yet the region is far from harvesting its enormous renewable energy resources […]