The new Armenian Prime-Minster Tigran Sargsyan has met with representatives of “Ecological Union of Armenian NGO’s”. Members of Prime-Minister staff, Minister Nature Protection and Heads of different departments and gencies of ministry were present at the meeting.

Part of Alexander's room that needs to be reorganized to increase energy saving.Here is the results of the international competition ”Energy and environment” 2007/2008. The winner was 11 year old Alexander Nihodovski a pupil from Irkutsk, Russia. His work on Energy saving project competition won the 1st prize, among practical solutions project. Alexander made a case study about energy use in his room. He analyzed mistakes of the order in the room and gave interesting and simple solutions on how to reduce energy waste.

His work is creative and original, and above all it offers solutions that everyone can apply in their living and working space, in order to reduce energy use.

- Schools must become more active in telling how we must act in order to avoid dangerous climate change.
This was the message from Dag A. Hoystad, working with energy in SPARE, to teachers and youth leaders at the UNEP children’s conference TUNZA. The conference takes place in Stavanger Norway from 15th to 20th of June 2008, and gathers children and youth leaders from 105 countries.

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 in Kyrgyzstan has implemented a bigger project on solar water heating in rural regions of the country. In 20 villages a number of families have got the possibility to be trained on how to build low cost solar water heaters. The project has met great interest all over Kyrgyzstan, and in total more than 300 persons has been trained on solar water heaters.

SPARE in Belarus establishes a new project on development of educational program on energy, climate and environment in Belarus. Main cooperation partner is the Ministry of Education of Belarus, but also Ministry of Environment, UNDP, NGOs and various educational institutions participates in the project. SPARE will serve as basis for the new program in Belarus.

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.

On the 29.3.2008 a successful initiating workshop was held in Tajikistan‘s capital Dushanbe. The workshop introduced the ICS to officials and other NGOs in Tajikistan and asked for cooperation, participation and support in the effective implementation of the program.

Workshops whit the slogan “Energy Saving; Past, Present and Future” was held in the mountain regions of South-Georgia. This very successful experiment gave possibility for more than 100 teachers and schoolchildren to learn about the energy saving program SPARE.