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By Katrin Heer Once per year the world’s policy makers meet under the auspices of the United Nations in order to negotiate on common strategies to tackle climate change. Between and as a preparation to these annual high-level conferences, there are several intermediary climate change conferences where advisory committees and working groups to the UN […]

On a beautiful day in the very beginning of June, two busloads of YES-DC people headed off on a brave expedition to the Jülich Research Center, near Aachen in Germany. This impressively large state-owned non-profit institution with roughly four and a half thousand employees, has a large department on climate and energy research. So, besides

Well, that was surely one of the more flashy and entertaining activities we’ve had in a while! We were visited by Gieljan de Vries of the Dutch institute for nuclear fusion Rijnhuizen, who gave us an excellent show, starting of with some basic thoughts on energy use and ending up talking about current developments in nuclear fusion. We

In January YES-DC organized a meeting on sustainable entrepreneurship in Utrecht. We heard two very interesting stories from an idea generator that ‘invests/develops’ from the one side (ENVIU), and from an entrepreneur who started everything from the ground up on the other side (Ampyx Windpower). Both showed various opportunities on how to make your sustainable

That 2011 will be a year with more interesting contact, many high quality YES-DC activities and some great excursions. We would like to thank you for your great contribution during all our activities in 2010! With as a highlight most probably the excursion to the Wind Park, the Debate on Energy (DEO) day and the

Tot nu toe profiteren vooral grote bedrijven en bestaande industrieën van de wereldwijde handel in emissierechten. Dat kan anders. Volgens de Nederlandse vereniging van jonge energiespecialisten, YES-DC, biedt de handel in emissierechten ook kansen voor kleinschalige, duurzame ontwikkeling. Maar dan moet er wel wat veranderen. De wereldwijde handel in emissierechten is ontstaan in de jaren

Are you interested to be in the board of YES-DC from January 2011 onwards? We now have vacancies, besides the chairman, treasurer and secretary we try to adopt remaining positions to the qualifications of the interested, new, enthusiastic board members.   Positions in the board you can think of: –          Webside and/or YFFN and/or newsletter

At the moment YES-DC has on average about 5 to 10 vacancies for (Young) Energy Professionals published for members only at the LinkedIn Group. It seems the market is recovering a little bit! Join our LinkedIn if you are looking for a new opportunity! In case you are looking for a (Young) Energy Professional, please

YES-DC Board is currently on holiday until the beginning of August. Nevertheless vacancies (currently there are many!) and other news items will continuously be updated on LinkedIn. So follow us through our LinkedIn group!

We can look back at two very successful event with old fashion heated discussions and debating. Some results of the DEO-day and all presentations, including the nuclear debate are now online! Furthermore the pics of the nuclear debate are online, DEO-day pictures will follow soon!