Events

The workshop "Supporting the deployment of bankable renewable energy projects in the Caribbean" will take place on March 15 – 18, 2020 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In recent years, a range of stakeholders, including governments, development banks and official development assistance providers have made significant efforts to foster the inclusion of renewable energy in the Caribbean. These efforts include comprehensive planning processes, sectorial roadmaps and in some countries the adjustment of the institutional and regulatory framework. While these actions are key, there is a need to move from planning to action and thus to support the development of bankable...

Last year climate change was a hot topic in Davos, but this year it is the overwhelmingly dominant concern. Along with biodiversity loss, climate change is considered to be the greatest threat the world faces. This is the finding of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2020. The warning comes as we teeter on the cusp of an apocalypse. We are not doing what we must to reduce emissions and business as usual will push us past tipping points from which we will not be able to recover. Despite a plethora of warnings emissions keep rising and the...

CES Paris will take place in June, 2020. There will be more than 300 people attending this event including more than 70 corporates and 65 speakers. The second edition of CES Europe participants will discuss the increasingly sophisticated array of options, spread and share best practice and network with solutions provider and thought leaders. The first of the Corporate Energy Series was a carbon neutral event that was held in France on 21-22 May 2019. The event explored solutions for corporates to reach 100% renewable electricity. Decision-makers from global and European corporations, renewable energy project developers, banks, law firms, advisory...

The fifth annual RECAM congress will take place on March 3-4, 2020 at the Hilton Panama Hotel in Panama City. The RECAM event unites Central America and the Caribbean’s clean energy markets on a mission to achieve resiliency, reliability, sustainability, and security through renewables. This event brings together senior executives and key decision-makers from local and international developers, EPCs, installers, and investors to develop new partnerships and advance your projects. Through cutting-edge debates, actionable insights and tailor-made networking, RECAM is the only clean energy congress guiding Central America and the Caribbean on a collaborative path towards 100% renewable and 100%...

The 10th International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation (ICEPR’20) will take place on August 19, 2020 - August 21, 2020 in Prague , Czech Republic. The Conference Proceedings will be published with an ISSN and ISBN, indexed in Scopus and Google Scholar, and archived permanently in Portico. ICEPR’20 aims to become the leading annual conference in fields related to environmental pollution and remediation. The goal of ICEPR’20 is to gather scholars from all over the world to present advances in the relevant fields and to foster an environment conducive to exchanging ideas and information. This conference will also provide...

Eco-Green-Solar Expo Canada will take place on Friday February 7 to Sunday February 9, 2020, at the Exhibition Place, in Toronto Ontario. These events aim to bring local and regional businesses together with consumers for the sole purpose of exposing consumers to Eco-Green and Solar companies products and services, geared towards saving the environment through the use of Green Products. Phone: 866-932-5577 E-mail: egscanada.com (at) gmail.com

The 30th edition of the SRI Conference will take place on November 13-15, 2019 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Advisor Summit Workshop will take place on November 11-15, 2019. If you are interested in socially responsible investing you need to attend SRI. For 30 years, the SRI Conference has been the most important annual gathering for investors, asset owners, asset managers, financial advisors, researchers, academics, mission-driven organizations, and enterprises who share the common goal of deploying private capital to address some of our most pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges. Reasons to attend SRI is one of...

A last ditch effort is underway to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. On September 23, the UN convened an urgent meeting to increase climate action. In addition to showcasing new initiatives, this event was also an opportunity to tell the world that we must do more to combat climate change. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for action from government, business and civil society. To have a chance of keeping temperatures from rising beyond safe limits we will have to see 45 percent emissions reductions by 2030 and emissions will have to zero-out by mid-century. Political leaders...

The inaugural Youth Climate Summit, is an action-oriented intergenerational event that will take place on Saturday September 21, 2019 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The event brings together young leaders who are seeking change at a pace and scale needed to meet the challenge of the climate crisis. This summit will provide a platform for leaders between the ages of 18-29 to share their solutions, it will also give them access to decision makers. Those under 18 are also given the opportunity to attend through a nomination process. The high level inclusive event will feature a programme...

The Environmental Law Toolkit Webinar Series presents Richard Lindgren of CELA on Common Law Tools for Protecting the Environment. This webinar will take place online on Tuesday July 30, 2019 at 1:00pm EDT. For those who cannot make it a recording of the webinar will be made available to all those who register (available until September 30, 2019). If Canadians suffer harm, loss or injury from pollution, civil litigation may be undertaken to obtain compensation, injunctions or other appropriate relief. In such cases, plaintiffs may rely upon various “torts” (civil wrongs) that have been developed by judges at common law....