The first joint meeting of the EU-Russia Working groups on energy efficiency and climate change took place in Moscow
on February 28 with assistance of REEEP. Previously the issues of energy efficiency and climate change were coordinated separately by EU-Russia Dialogue on Environment and Energy Dialogue.

It was the first project call for the RS for Russia and FSU, and the largest funding round in REEEP’s three year history.

The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) today announced 32 new projects for funding.  The funding round, REEEP’s fourth, represented the largest funding round in REEEP’s three year history.

RS for Russia and FSU together with Russian regional Environmental Centre organized a press conference on "Global energy security and role of renewable energy for Russia and Former Soviet Union, G8 and the world" on March, 22.

Kiev, Ukraine - The workshop "Removing Barriers to Residential Energy Efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe" that is due to take place on February 6, 7^th, 2006 aims to increase awareness of local and national governments throughout Central and Eastern Europe about the need to formulate and enable effective policies that promote the development and implementation of residential energy efficiency, especially for multifamily buildings with vulnerable households.

For the fourth call RS for Russia and FSU received 23 proposals.

REEEP backs efforts to secure carbon credit for Russian Far East communities to convert district heating plants to forest biomass.

The RREC participated as a regional secretariat in the meetings in Vienna and attended the monitoring and evaluation workshop, meeting of the regional secretariat and meeting of the program board.

Thanks to the UK Government we now have 3 million euros available for projects, events, partnerships and strategic regional programmes. The deadline for submitting one-page concept documents for new project proposals is Friday December 9th, 2005.