Some political declarations lack measures to promote renewables
BONN, Germany, 2004-08-11 (Refocus Weekly)
Some of the political declarations adopted at an international conference on renewable energies this summer do not call for new international arrangements to promote renewables, according to a comparison by EUROSOLAR and the World Council on Renewable Energy.
The German magazine, ‘Solarzeitalter’ (Solar Age), published by the two
groups, compared several political declarations from the conferences in Bonn. It
examined the World Renewable Energy Agenda of WCRE/EUROSOLAR (May 31), the
Political Declaration of Renewables 2004 (June 6), the Resolution of the
International Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energy (June 2), the
International Youth Summit on Renewable Energy (May 31), and the Declaration of
the Citizens United for Renewable Energy & Sustainability.
The synopsis claims that the Political Declaration of the governmental
conference and the Declaration of CURES lack any calls for new international
treaty arrangements for the promotion of renewables. Both those declarations are
also weak in demanding effective international institutional measurements that
could facilitate a faster dissemination of renewable energy technologies, it
explains, adding that treaty arrangements are essential to create an institution
that is equal to organizations such as the International Atomic Energy
Association.
WCRE’s World Renewable Energy Agenda and the International Youth Summit on
Energy are more expressive on new institutional measurements, and it explains
that a lack of activities for renewable energy cannot be compensated solely by
international conferences, informal networks or consensual approaches.
The comparison of recommendations for political measurements at the national
level, WCRE called for feed-in laws such as the German model, obligation to use
renewables in buildings, and using subsidies for fossil and nuclear energy to
promote renewables. Its recommendations for the financing of renewables called
for all energy portfolios of all development banks to be directed to renewables
and binding increases in the share of renewables in the budgets of development
aid.
The Renewables 2004 declaration called for coherent political frameworks for
renewables, creation of export promotion agencies, development of human and
institutional capacities for renewables and new objectives for research while,
for financing, it called for an explicit increase of renewables in credit
schemes of the World Bank and regional development banks.
The International Parliamentary Forum called for a political priority for
renewables and compulsory obligations for the increase of renewables, and
increasing renewables in credit schemes of national international development
banks. The International Youth Summit wants curricula for renewables in schools
and universities and framework conditions for central energy supply, while its
financing section called for using world bank credits for renewables. The CURES
Declaration recommended establishment of local capacities for self supply,
ambitious national and regional objectives for feed-in laws, tax incentives, and
a decrease of fossil and nuclear energy subsidies, while its section on
financing called for an increase of development aid for developing the energy
sector, strengthening of micro credit schemes, and abandonment of financing for
fossil fuel, nuclear and large hydro power by international finance institutions
by 2008.
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