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- About LEDS EEPThe LEDS Europe and Eurasia Platform (LEDS EEP) exists to provide a regional network for knowledge sharing, support, interaction and learning.
  
  What are LEDS?The platform promotes the development of policies and strategies that address multiple objectives simultaneously.
  
  What we doThe platform aims to assist its members in sharing and learning from mutual experience and expertise developed in the course of field work.
  
  Steering CommitteeThe platform Steering Committee is charged with establishing platform priorities and executing the platform agenda with regard to education, information sharing and providing support for low-emission development activities in the region.
  
  MembersLEDS EEP membership is open to individuals, organizations and governments working in the Eastern Europe and Eurasia region who are working to promote LEDS development and implementation at any level of governance.
  
  SecretariatThe platform secretariat, which is overseen by the Steering Committee, is charged with platform administration and the carrying out of major tasks.
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Country profile

Belarus

General Statistics:

Population: 9.5 million (2014 Official Statistics)
GDP: US$54.6 billion (2015, World Bank estimate)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 116.5 million metric tons gross emissions in 2012 (115.1 million metric tons net, accounting for LUCF), on a carbon-dioxide equivalent basis.
Energy use per capita: 2,882 kg of oil equivalent, 2013

Important Initiatives related to Climate Change:

INDC: In its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, Belarus set as its target a reduction of its greenhouse gas emissions by 28% below 1990 levels by 2030. The full text of its INDC may be viewed here.

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Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) for municipal energy sector planning

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Trainings and webinars

Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) for municipal energy sector planning

September 28, 2017

Charles Heaps presents how the municipal energy sector planning can benefit from the range of possibilities LEAP can bring.

Policy instruments for low-carbon development based on work from the EUFP7 project, CECILIA2050

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Libraries and Reports

Policy instruments for low-carbon development based on work from the EUFP7 project, CECILIA2050

September 19, 2017

This collection of papers contains many of the most important insights from the research undertaken by the different CECILIA2050 project partners.

Center for Climate Strategies Online Library

Webpage

Libraries and Reports

Center for Climate Strategies Online Library

November 20, 2016

This library contains how-to guides, scientific studies and examples of legislative language and executive orders, as well as explanations and examples of policy development processes focused on climate change.

News and Events

For you (and with you): The LEDS-EEP City Energy Planning Toolkit

April 11, 2018

We are calling for interested energy planning experts and companies to be included in our toolkit's

On the electric road

March 28, 2018

With support from the EU, Romania and Croatia will see the installation of 73 car charging stations.

Let there be efficient light

March 26, 2018

Sweden is supporting BiH with EUR 4 million in funds for Green Economic Development.

Accelerating building energy efficiency

March 23, 2018

BEA and the City of Belgrade have started a cross-sectoral collaboration for energy efficiency.

Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe