Partners for Euro-African Green Energy (PANGEA)

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Gathering together experts on agriculture, trade, markets and development, PANGEA works closely with the European Commission, European Parliament, NGOs, development agencies and EU member states to ensure a continued market for African biofuels.

Website: http://www.pangealink.org
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Members: 12
Latest Activity: Sep 28

PANGEA 2008 annual report

Hot off the presses, check out PANGEA's 2008 annual looking at what we did in 2008 and what we're planning for 2009. From events in Africa and Europe to lobbying North and South and networking with and among our members, it's an exciting time.

PANGEAannualreport2008.pdf

Discussion Forum

Wholesaler for UPS in Africa (West, East and South) wanted

Started by Mr. Artur Achramowicz Sep 28.

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Comment by Sidney Clouston on April 10, 2009 at 3:12pm: I would like to discuss how PANGEA is the best interface between Africa and
Europe. My group has similar ideas and have a discussion with a UK Bank
on Carbon Credits in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) program. The
CDM awards are far behind Inidia and China as well as SE Asia in general. The
Asia Development Bank is quite active in that venue.

What I suggest is a EU program that is a Pilot Project in nature, where several
or many small projects can get a start. These several smallish projects may
be centrally managed in a region.. Our group is focused in Western Africa in
association with the Nigerian Government and Energy Commission at one of
their four R&D Centers. The Sustainable Energy Center of Excellence is a
consortium in the Type Two Partnership ideal which was promoted during the
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002 in South Africa.
The ideal is related to the plans of the World Energy Council (WEC). More
close to the ground and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) we plan to
use a Contract Growing Contract and a Standard Offer for feedstock such as
certain trees and plants. I will try to add photos of Switchgrass growing in Nigeria for Cellulosic Ethanol. Switchgrass is drought resistant and does well
on marginal land. Their roots can grow down ten feet sequestering atmosphere
CO2 for years and decades. That adds Soil Organic Matter (SOM) to the soil for the future. The types of trees used can be planted and have four or five harvests with it's root system intact for decades also as in the case of the Switchgrass sequestering carbon and adding SOM.

With the establishment of member councils the community will have a voice and
other services may be given or contracted for due to income generation in the
collaboration of small growers. Because of the Standard offer large farmers or
corporations could participate in the group potentially benefiting both due to economies of scale being applied. Poverty relief is the key to hunger relief and
the other MDG.

Comment by Stewart Craine on October 2, 2008 at 3:25pm: We are proposing the reversal of rural electrification as the fastest way African communities can gain access to electricity. This is now viable due to the reduction in cost of 0.5-2W white LED lighting solutions, which can mobilize 100 million households x $1/week of kerosene lighting expenditure = $5 billion per year of burned money that can be redirected to long life households assets. What can PANGEA to do support this and similar initiatives?