Voting for civil society observer seats on two sub-committees of the Climate Investment Fund (CIF)’s Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) – the Forest Investment Program (FIP) and the Scaling up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries (SREP) – is now open on the RESOLVE website at www.resolv.org/cif.

Please note that you must first register to vote at www.resolv.org/cif/registration by Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time.  Voting will remain open until Friday, January 8, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time.

In order to vote, you must be a member a non-profit civil society organization, network, or small, local community involved in issues of climate change.  Only one vote is permitted for each organization, country office/affiliate of large organizations, or small, local community affected by climate change

Voting instructions are available in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Chinese, French, Nepali, Portuguese,and Spanish. Russian is coming soon.

For more information on the CIFs, please visit www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/cif.

Separately, please note that the World Business Council on Sustainable Development is organizing a different process for the private sector observer seats.  For more information, please visit www.wbcsd.org/web/CIF.htm

Best regards,

Jana


Ana Janaina "Jana" Nelson
Project Assistant, RESOLVE
1255 23rd Street NW, Suite 875, Washington, DC 20037
t: +1 (202) 965-6217
anelson@resolv.org