Russia

29 of October Friends of the Baltic NGO have organized Festival of Youth Environmental Projects and Initiatives, where SPARE schoolchildren presented their creativity works on climate change, energy and resource saving. Festival was supported by Committee for Youth Policy and Public Organizations of St.Petersburg Government, Norwegian Society for Conservation of Nature, and Municipality “Sennoy Okrug”.

We invite you to join the SPARE international energy saving day on the 11th of November 2009.

Saving energy is important for improvement of local and global environment. Nobody can do everything, but if everybody does something, we can achieve a lot together! In order to increase attention for the importance of energy saving, SPARE arranges an international energy saving day. Schools and pupils from many countries will participate, and we invite also your school to join!

Norges Naturvernforbund/Friends of the Earth Norway has for several years cooperated with NGO partners in EECCA region on education, practical projects and policy development around energy and climate issues. We have now got the possibility to invite most of our NGO cooperation partners to Oslo, and on the 3rd of June we use the opportunity to arrange a conference on energy and climate in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA-region).

Small scale sustainable energy solutions developed within SPARE and the role of nuclear power in climate change were among the topics when Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) met in Bonn at the UNFCCC Climate Change Talks (Subsidiary Bodies 28), where delegates from all countries are cooporating in technical working groups to prepare for the Climate negotiations later this year in Poznan, Poland.

SPARE coordinators from 11 countries have in the end of April been gathered for international SPARE meeting in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The coordinators have been discussing results and development of educational and practical energy activities. The activity of SPARE is higher than ever, with 3 000 schools and 150 000 pupils participating in the project during the educational year 2007-2008.

At the seminar regional SPARE coordinators form all 7 Federal districts of Russia (from Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhnij Novgorod, Volgograd, Novorossijsk, Bryansk, St.Petersburg, Murmansk/Apatity, Arkhangelsk and Karelian Republic, so as international coordinator Dag Arne Hoystad from Norwegian Society for Conservation of Nature.

October 25 in St.Petersburg Friends of the Baltic NGO has organized informational-methodical round table on SPARE. Within this round table the demonstrational informational and educational Ecocentrum and its exhibition on climate and energy was presented to the teachers, working on SPARE at schools and centers for additional education in St.Petersburg and Leningrad region, and for partners - Academy for post-graduate pedagogical education, and several NGOs working in educational sphere.

SPARE made contacts at the VI Environmental Ministerial Conference of Easter Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA).
The Sixth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" (EfE) was held in Belgrade (Serbia) from 10 to 12 October 2007. SPARE participated with exhibition stand, presented by SPARE team, including Norwegian Society for Conservation of Nature, BIOM (Kyrgyzstan), For the Earth (Tajikistan), Friends of the Baltic (Russia), Eco-vision (Georgia).