Special issue on "Renewable energy in African, Caribbean and Pacific States

Citation

Leal Filho, W. (2012), "Special issue on "Renewable energy in African, Caribbean and Pacific States", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 23 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2012.08323caa.001

Special issue on "Renewable energy in African, Caribbean and Pacific States"

Article Type: Editorial From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 23, Issue 3.

Welcome to another issue of MEQ. This issue presents readers an interesting set of papers dealing with renewable energy, prepared as part of the project “Small Developing Island Renewable Energy Knowledge and Technology Transfer Network” (DIREKT). The project is a cooperation scheme involving universities from Germany, Fiji, Mauritius, Barbados, and Trinidad & Tobago with the aim of strengthening the science and technology capacity in the field of renewable energy of a sample of Africa, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) small island developing states, by means of technology transfer, information exchange, and networking.

The project is funded by the ACP Science and Technology program, an EU program for cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the ACP countries. The overall objectives of the DIREKT project are:

1. 1.

   to strengthen the internal science and technology capacity in the field of renewable energy of ACP-SIDS;

2. 2.

   to foster sustainable cooperation between the science and technology community between the participant countries and the EU; and

3. 3.

   to contribute to the transfer of research results on the key topic of renewable energies, by means of the establishment of “technology transfer centres” in the participant countries.

In order to achieve its overall objectives, the DIREKT project focusses on the issue of renewable energy, which is of great relevance for the socio-economic development of the ACP small island developing states.

The papers in this special issue present a range of experiences and case studies from DIREKT partners in ACP countries, and contains a paper which outline the role of universities in international cooperation on matters related to renewable energy. I hope they will be of wide interest to both industrialized and developing nations, interested in matters related to renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Enjoy your reading!

Walter Leal Filho