VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--REEEP (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership) launched today reegle Translate (translate.reegle.info), a free online service to help bridge language gaps within the growing global climate and development community. Precision is critical when dealing with technical terminology – reegle Translate helps experts, students, politicians, entrepreneurs and others connect across borders and languages, without sacrificing accuracy and exactness.
Reegle Translate is a simple and easy-to-use tool that provides expert translations in five languages for highly specialised and technical terminology from fields related to climate change, global development, clean energy and others. Reegle Translate is backed by REEEP’s expansive Climate Smart Thesaurus, a vast catalogue and taxonomy of specialized terminology in French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
REEEP began compiling the Climate Smart Thesaurus in 2011 with the help of leading experts in their fields, and it now includes specialized language from sectors in including renewable energy and energy efficiency, green growth, monitoring and evaluations, greenhouse gas emissions in industry, the economics of adaptation, and more. The Thesaurus is regularly updated and expanded to additional areas and language, and can be targeted to incorporate specific sectors on an as-needed basis. The Climate Smart Thesaurus is also the basis for Climate Tagger (www.climatetagger.net), a suite of software tools designed for purveyors and brokers of climate and development-related knowledge. “Reegle Translate brings the power of the Climate Smart Thesaurus to anyone with an Internet connection, allowing instantaneous and precise translations of technical and specialised concepts that are not always easy to find,” said Florian Bauer, REEEP Director of Operations and head of the Open Knowledge programme. “This should help greatly reduce confusion and improve consistency for documentation that really demands accuracy,” he added.
Reegle Translate is accessible to all at translate.reegle.info, and a glossary of the Climate Smart Thesaurus can be viewed at www.reeep.org/glossary.
About REEEP
REEEP invests in clean energy markets in developing countries to reduce CO2 emissions and build prosperity. Based on a strategic portfolio of high impact projects, REEEP works to generate energy access, improve lives and economic opportunities, build sustainable markets, and combat climate change.
REEEP understands market change from a practice, policy and financial perspective. We monitor, evaluate and learn from our portfolio to understand opportunities and barriers to success within markets. These insights then influence policy, increase public and private investment, and inform our portfolio strategy to build scale within and replication across markets.
REEEP is committed to open access to knowledge to support entrepreneurship, innovation and policy improvements to empower market shifts across the developing world.
About reegle.info
The clean energy info portal www.reegle.info is REEEP’s broadest information and data sharing tool. It targets the clean energy-interested public in emerging countries, policy makers, and project implementers. In addition to its own leading role, reegle.info also shares its data sets with other information brokers, free of charge, and is a strong advocate of the Linked Open Data movement, as a neutral non-partisan source of information for all.