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Events[]
Featured international events[]
- 4-6 June 2024 (Bridgetown, Barbados): Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum - The event will be co-hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the government of Barbados. It is a platform for government, business and finance leaders, entrepreneurs, and youth and community representatives from around the world to come together to broker new partnerships, spur new investment, and address challenges at the nexus of energy, climate, and development. More information...
Online events[]
- NEW: Thursday, 18 April 2024 (2:30pm-3:15pm EDT), (Washington, D.C., USA): ESMAP Spring Meetings Knowledge Café: Clean Cooking at the Heart of Energy Access - Join ESMAP for this exciting knowledge-sharing opportunity, which will showcase the role of clean cooking as a key part of energy access and energy transition. Presentations by René van Hell, Director of Inclusive Growth, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Netherlands, Dr. Kandeh Yumkella Chairman, Presidential Initiative on Climate, Renewable Energy and Food Security, Sierra Leone, and Chandrasekar Govindarajalu, Practice Manager, ESMAP, World Bank. In-person attendance at World Bank Atrium, MC Front Lobby is for Spring Meetings registrants only. However, you can watch the event online
Requests for proposal[]
- Decentralized Renewable Energy Solutions utilizing Solar and Bio-Energy - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments of ScienceDirect, is requesting guest-author submissions. The special issue, VSI: DRES is devoted to publishing research articles reporting the innovative designs and design interventions in solar thermal and bio-energy for decentralized energy systems (DES). It includes i) new and novel designs of prototype or commercial devices and technologies, their development, modeling and simulations and experimental validation; ii) innovations for processes, techniques, utilization, and applications; iii) novel use of materials for improving efficiency, performance, techno-economic feasibility, and sustainability and iv) research findings addressing the socio-economic, health and safety impacts, and life cycle assessments leading to proposing novel devices for DES. The Deadline for submission is 31 July 2024. More submittal information...
- See also: Global Calendar of Events and past events in Marshall Islands
News[]
SCI Board Member Dr. Peg Barratt presents the Order of Excellence in Washington D.C. at the RMI Embassy to Ambassador Gerald Zackios.
- June 2019: SCI Awards the Order of Excellence to the Republic of the Marshall Islands - The Solar Cookers International Order of Excellence award annually recognizes the most outstanding people and organizations whose sustained efforts have contributed most to empowering people to cook food and pasteurize water with solar energy. The Solar Cookers International Board of Directors unanimously agreed to award the SCI Order of Excellence to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) for its commitment to solar cooking, as evidenced by including solar cooking in its official plan to address climate change. Solar cooking is critically important and relevant in the RMI. Angeline Heine-Reimers, Energy Planner for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, spoke about the importance of solar cooking at SCI’s press conference at the United Nations Climate Conference in Poland last December. She explained, “Climate change is not a future problem, it is impacting the Marshall Islands right now… The land is disappearing with sea levels rising. We are experiencing climate change impacts now. For small islands like mine, where you are associated with the land, your identity is the land. Your culture is the land. If the land disappears, who are you as a person? That’s a very scary thought to think about because it’s hard to imagine who you are without having your home. That is why we are addressing climate change through many avenues, including solar cooking.” Watch the press conference. Only 4 of the 20 main islands comprising the Marshall Islands have access to electricity, making this an ideal place to harness solar energy for cooking and purifying water. With an abundance of sunlight and limited access to electricity, solar cookers represent a clean and simple opportunity to improve the lives of many while restricting greenhouse emissions. SCI Board Member Dr. Peg Barratt presented the Order of Excellence in Washington D.C. at the RMI Embassy to Ambassador Gerald Zackios. Solar Cookers International encourages other countries to follow the Republic of the Marshall Island’s leadership by including solar cooking in their official policies to address climate change.
History[]
- Main article: History of solar cooking
Archived articles
Climate and culture[]
The climate has a dry season from December to April and a wet season from May to November. Many Pacific typhoons begin as tropical storms in the Marshall Islands region and grow stronger as they move west toward the Mariana Islands and the Philippines.
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Resources[]
Reports[]
Articles in the media[]
Audio and video[]
- December 2018: Listen to guest speaker Angeline Heine, Energy Planner for the Marshall Islands, discusses the opportunity for solar cooking. (Angeline Heine's presentation begins at 6 minutes 30 seconds into the video.)
Contacts[]
The entities listed below are either based in Marshall Islands, or have established solar cooking projects there:
SCI Associates[]
- Main article: Solar Cookers International Association