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ORLANDO, Florida, US, September 21, 2005
(Refocus Weekly)
Renewables can achieve a “significant and
potentially growing percentage of electricity generation free from
greenhouse gas emissions and at an increasingly competitive
generation cost,” concludes a communique issued by the International
Solar Energy Society.
The 1,600 delegates from 79 countries to the ISES Solar World
Congress pledged to “respond to the joint challenges of climate
change, arising from human induced global warming and of achieving
the Millennium Development Goals for the reduction of world
poverty.” They agreed on the “clear view of the role of renewable
energy” from solar-based technologies as well as wind, hydro, marine
and biomass, for increasing the share of green power as the world
responds to environmental problems and the declining supply of oil
resources.
“We note that the capacity of the renewable energy technologies to
contribute to the supply of water and energy as the basic building
blocks and having, inter alia, the ready adaptation for the
distributed generation” that is necessary to achieve development in
non-industrialized countries, adding that the alleviation of world
poverty involves the development of positive policies for energy.
The communique comments the Bonn Renewables Energies Political
Declaration issued in June 2004 by 154 countries, and the formation
of the International Renewable Energy Alliance that involves ISES,
the World Wind Energy Association and the International Hydropower
Association to promote the role and potential of renewables.
Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and the formation of the
Renewable Energy Policy Global Network for the 21st Century (REN 21)
were noted, as was the July Gleneagles Agreement from the G8
industrialized countries, which included a plan of action based on a
role for renewable energies.
ISES invites WWEA and IHA to stage a “significant side-event” at the
Beijing renewable energy conference in November, and to express
support for the G8 reference to the International Energy Agency for
the implementation of the Gleneagles plan of the G8.
The community notes “the existing renewable energy technologies
which are already capable of providing immediate substantial
increases in clean energy supply with others capable of substantial
economic supply after further development, and commends the
establishment of frameworks necessary for the rapid increase in the
percentage of greenhouse gas emission-free energy into the total
global supply.”
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