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Instituto para o Desenvolvimento de Energias Alternativas na América Latina

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Climate Change Development Energy Environment Information Sustainable Development Sustainable Development: Capacity-building Climate change Energy Information for decision-making and participation Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.) Partnerships
Geographic scope:	Regional Latin America and Caribbean
Country of activity:	Brazil Argentina Uruguay Paraguay
Millennium Development Goals:	Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	The major challenge of this century is to discover what energy sources shall be moving humanity in the future. With the forthcoming end of the era of oil and gas due to the depletion of world reserves, the more developed countries are investing vast resources in researching alternative energy sources. Although everyone acknowledges the huge potential Latin America has in the so-called renewable energy, there is a need for initiatives that promote its insertion in the energy matrix for our countries. It is in this scenario that we created the IDEAL – Instituto para o Desenvolvimento de Energias Alternativas na América Latina (Institute for Developing Alternative Energy in Latin America). It has been born with the purpose of fomenting renewable energy together with governments, parliaments, academia and business environments allowing the establishment of an energetic integration policy and regional development. The IDEAL Institute is active in three major fronts: 1) Together with Latin American countries governments and parliaments, it proposes to identify and enhance existing legislations to provide feasibility for the implementation of projects that include alternative energies in the regional energy matrix. In that sense, IDEAL will prioritize the recently created Mercosur Parliament as a forum that is qualified for those initiatives. 2) Another action by the IDEAL Institute is to convey existing knowledge in this area to Latin American academia. By awakening motivation and awareness in youngsters toward renewable energies, the Institute will be contributing for the appearance of a new generation committed to the future of the planet. 3) Within this proposal for a new energy matrix for Latin America, another important sector is the business one. Faced with the huge potential the continent has to produce clean energy, it will be up to that sector to guide investments to this area and generate new business opportunities.
Year established:	2007
Year of registration:	2007
Organizational structure:	It has a administrative structure with 3 directors: president director, technical director and marketing director. It has 1 employee and 1 colaborator from GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)as result of a Term of Cooperation between both organizations.
Number and type of members:	It has 52 founders associates.
Affiliation with NGO networks:	RENOVE - Renewable Energy Nongovernmental Organization Network
Funding structure:	Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants

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