The objective of the International Sustainable Energy Organization for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ISEO) with headquarters in

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situ ...

is to accelerate and enlarge the worldwide contribution of clean,

sustainable energy Energy is sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Most definitions of sustainable energy include considerations of environmental aspects such as green ...

to economic and equitable

social development Social development can refer to: * Psychosocial development * Social change * Social development theory * Social Development (journal) * Social emotional development * Social progress or social regress The word decadence, which at first meant ...

. Gustav R. Grob founded ISEO for the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizi ...

in 2002.

Sectors

*Architecture - Willi Weber *

Bioenergy Biomass is plant-based material used as a fuel for heat or electricity production. It can be in the form of wood, wood residues, energy crops, agricultural residues, and waste from industry, farms, and households. Some people use the terms biom ...

- R Sims, M Sumenjak * Clean fuels - Armin Reller * Co-generation /

Heat Pump A heat pump is a device that can heat a building (or part of a building) by transferring thermal energy from the outside using a refrigeration cycle. Many heat pumps can also operate in the opposite direction, cooling the building by removing ...

s - S. Minett *Economy - Darja Piciga *Education / Training - J. Corominas * Efficiency - Rolf Wahnschafft *

Energy policy Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy conversion, distribution and use as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to cont ...

- G. R. Grob *Financing - Arik Schweiger *

Geothermal energy Geothermal energy is the thermal energy in the Earth's crust which originates from the formation of the planet and from radioactive decay of materials in currently uncertain but possibly roughly equal proportions. The high temperature and pre ...

- Ritesh Arya *

Hydropower Hydropower (from el, ὕδωρ, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by converting the gravitational potential or kinetic energy of ...

- Dogan Altinbilek *Legal - Adrian Bradbrook * Muscle energy / Food & Feed - Steivan Defilla *

Ocean energy Marine energy or marine power (also sometimes referred to as ocean energy, ocean power, or marine and hydrokinetic energy) refers to the energy carried by ocean waves, tides, salinity, and ocean temperature differences. The movement of water in ...

- Les Duckers *

Solar energy Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of technologies such as solar power to generate electricity, solar thermal energy (including solar water heating), and solar architecture. It is an ...

(PV) - Wilhelm Durisch *

Solar thermal energy Solar thermal energy (STE) is a form of energy and a technology for harnessing solar energy to generate thermal energy for use in industry, and in the residential and commercial sectors. Solar thermal collectors are classified by the United ...

- Andreas Luzzi *Statistics & Forecasting - G.R. Grob *Transport - Rolf Schatzmann *

Wild energy Wild Energy may refer to: * ''Wild Energy'' (album), an album by Ruslana * "Wild Energy" (song) or "Dyka Enerhiya", a song by Ruslana *''Wild Energy. Lana'', a novel by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko See also *''Wild Energy. Amazon. Wild Dances ''Wil ...

- Maen Kaedan

External links

*http://www.uniseo.org/ Home page International organisations based in Belgium Sustainable energy {{organisation-stub