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Figure 45: The ISES 1995 calendar, staring pictures of the sun painted by children across Hungary
1994
• ISES convened two preparatory renewable energy NGO meetings.
• ISES participates the second meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD) in New York to discuss issues of sustainable development and the interlinkages to renewable energy
technologies.
• SunDay – to popularise the use of renewable energies -was instigated in the USA and Sweden.
• ISES hosted the NGO Renewable Energy Summit in New York.

Figure 46: Summary panel, ISES NGO Summit NY.
L to R: Alicia Barcena Ibarra, Griff Thompson, Fred Morse & Don Aitken

• The NGO process, culminating in the New York Summit, was led by Mike Nicklas, the NGO Committee,
the ISES NGO Liaison Officers (Jane Willeboordse and Jenniy Gregory)
• This Summit was followed by three regional NGO conferences.

Figure 47: Alison Patterson, Assistant Editor Sun at Work in Europe and member UK SES, promoting
the first European SunDay

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