{"id":28390,"date":"2019-12-03T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/uncategorized\/un-global-climate-action-award-find-electriciens-sans-frontieres-at-cop-25\/"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T11:15:38","slug":"un-global-climate-action-award-find-electriciens-sans-frontieres-at-cop-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/press-releases\/un-global-climate-action-award-find-electriciens-sans-frontieres-at-cop-25\/","title":{"rendered":"UN GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION AWARD: FIND ELECTRICIENS SANS FRONTI\u00c8RES AT COP 25!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][easy-social-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin&#8221;][vc_column_text]<em>As announced last September during &#8220;Climate Week&#8221; in New York, the French NGO <strong>Electriciens sans fronti\u00e8res will receive the UN Climate Action Award at the UN Climate Change Conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/cop25.mma.gob.cl\/en\/home\/#\/\">COP25<\/a>),<\/strong> which opened today in Madrid, under the chairmanship of Chile.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;FIND US IN MADRID&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Lato%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>Our representatives will be in Madrid from Monday 9th December to Thursday 12th December and will be there to meet you at different events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday 9th December at 2 p.m.: <strong>interview session alongside the other winners of the UN Global Climate Action Award<\/strong> (Blue Zone, Hall 8, UNFCCC Pavilion &#8211; the interview will be broadcast on Facebook Live);<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, December 10th at 3 p.m.: <strong>Electriciens sans fronti\u00e8res will be speaking about our innovative approaches to provide access to energy at the &#8220;Action Hub&#8221;<\/strong> (Blue Zone, Hall 4);<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, 10th December at 6 p.m.: <strong>UN Global Climate Action Awards Ceremony<\/strong>, organised by the UNFCCC Executive Secretariat (Blue Zone, Hall 4);<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, 11th December, at 10 a.m.: <strong>presentation of the projects awarded prizes in the &#8220;Planetary Health&#8221;<\/strong> category, organised by the UNFCCC Executive Secretariat (Blue Zone, Hall 4);<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, 11th December at 11:30 a.m.: <strong>&#8220;Improving small island states resilience: let&#8217;s decarbonise the energy mix!&#8221;<\/strong> organised by Electriciens sans fronti\u00e8res (Blue Zone, Hall 6, French Pavilion).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;FOCUS ON THE UN&#8217;S AWARD-WINNING PROJECT: IMPROVING THE ISLAND OF DOMINICA&#8217;S RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Lato%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]In September 2017 Hurricane Maria devastated <a href=\"\/?p=21559\">the island of Dominica<\/a>. Following this dramatic event, Electriciens sans fronti\u00e8res installed<strong> \u201cstand alone\u201d photovoltaic kits, using renewable energy to secure an \u201cemergency pocket\u201d of power needs for six health centers on the island, with easily removable solar panels adapted for extreme weather conditions, <\/strong>enabling Dominica&#8217;s health centers to function normally even when the national grid breaks down. By using renewable energy, the project contributes directly to the reduction of carbon based energy sources in the country\u2019s energy mix.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/vimeo.com\/414756469&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>This project was carried out with the support of the Fondation de France, the EDF Group Foundation, Schneider Electric and Capenergie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>OUR CONTACT AT COP 25:<\/strong> J\u00e9r\u00e9my Gallet, +33.6.69.69.80.06, <a href=\"mailto:jeremy.gallet@electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\">jeremy.gallet@electriciens-sans-frontieres.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS CONTACT:<\/strong> Sol\u00e8ne Vergerolle, +33.1.84.21.10.49, <a href=\"mailto:solene.vergerolle@electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\">solene.vergerolle@electriciens-sans-frontieres.org<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"esf-attachment default \">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-02-Find-Electriciens-sans-fronti\u00e8res-at-COP-25.pdf\">\n        <h4>Download the press release<\/h4>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electriciens sans fronti\u00e8res will receive the UN Climate Action Award at the COP25, which opened today in Madrid, under the chairmanship of Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28395,"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions\/28395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electriciens-sans-frontieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}