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2nd International Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energies
3rd World Renewable Energy Forum
Bonn/Germany, November 26 th to 30 th, 2005, Hotel Kanzler
Organizer: EUROSOLAR
Supported by the NRW State Initiative on Future Energies, NRW Energy Agency, EUFORES, ISES (International Solar Energy Society), IUCN Environmental Law Programme, The International Initiative for the Human Right for Energy (Lega Ambiente, ARCI and attac Italy)
Chairmen’s message
The vast majority of the world’s citizens favours Renewable Energies. Yet fossil energy consumption still increases much faster than the use of Renewable Energies. Despite untold and devastatingly costly crises stemming from the use of fossil and nuclear energy, annually less than five percent of the world energy investments are spent on Renewable Energies. There is a plethora of declarations and action programmes for Renewable Energies, but what about their practical implementation?
Three major international events took place during May 28th and June 4th, 2004, in Bonn, Germany, alone:
- The Renewables 2004, a governmental conference hosted by the German government, assembled delegations from 154 governments, adopted an International Action Programme, consisting of the announcements of 58 participating governments concerning their current policies for Renewable Energies.
- The International Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energies, hosted by the German Parliament, gathered parliamentarians from 70 countries and adopted the resolution Renewable Energies - The Challenge for the 21st Century.
- The Second World Renewable Energy Forum: “Policies and Strategies”, hosted by the World Council for Renewable Energy, brought together representatives of more than 100 independent Renewable Energy associations and 500 Renewable Energy protagonists from all continents, adopting the World Renewable Energy Agenda.
Our forthcoming World Renewable Energy Assembly represents the combined follow-up of the International Parliamentary Forum and the World Renewable Energy Forum. This assembly is the common platform for parliamentarian and non-governmental protagonists in the fields of Renewable Energy, Environmental Protection, Development Aid and Social Movements as well as for representatives of science, industry and agriculture committed to Renewable Energy.
The World Renewable Energy Assembly shows the central and unique importance of Renewable Energies for overcoming and avoiding climate change related threats beyond and beside the Kyoto Protocol, for fighting poverty and keeping peace, and for the initialisation of a new industrial and agricultural development worldwide.
- It shows the possibilities of a 100% replacement of all conventional energies by Renewable Energies - and their comprehensive economical, ecological and social benefits for the societies.
- It encourages political and economic decision-makers to undertake measures in favour of an urgent, consequent and ambitious implementation.
- It presents roadmaps for the accelerated mobilisation of Renewable Energies.
- It evaluates strategies and awards the best Renewable Energy policies.
- It compares the Renewable Energy perspective with new non-renewable energy options like “clean coal”, conventional hydrogen, nuclear fission and fusion.
- It identifies existing open and hidden differences, and discusses the already existing conflicts of interests and between targets in the energy debate, free of diplomatic and compromising regards.
A special session is dedicated to the German Renewable Energy Policy. In recent years this policy has emerged as the most successful example for an accelerated implementation of Renewable Energies, and the creation of a strong market for international Renewable Energy technology suppliers. The session shows how and why this policy has succeeded and considers the question of its continuation after the German elections.
The aim of the World Renewable Energy Assembly is the creation of a forceful Alliance for Renewable Energies in order to enforce the Solar Century. There is no more time to waste.
World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE)
The Chairmen Committee
Participants are invited to send us their proposals for additional session statements.
Conference Languages: English and German, simultaneous translation
Chair-Committee: Hermann Scheer (General Chairman) - Wolfgang Palz, Europe - Michael Eckhart, Americas
Stephen Karekezi, Africa - Rakesh Bakshi, Asia - Peter Droege, Australia/Asia Pacific - Preben Maegaard - Angelina Galiteva
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