Announcing ISIS/TWN Special Report
Green Energies
100% Renewables by 2050
By Mae-Wan Ho, Brett Cherry, Sam Burcher &
Peter Saunders
Launch
Conferernce 25 November 2009
Alan Simpson MP, Michael Meacher MP, Lord David Steel, James Archer, Dr. Armin Tenner (The Netherlands), Dr Siegfried Brenke (Germany), Prof. Joe Cummins (Canada) and others
Jubilee Room, UK Parliament, Westminster, London, 1:00-5:00pm*
“This is a road map for survival…it could be the ‘get out of
jail’ card that Britain and many other countries will need to play in avoiding
the drift into climate chaos.”
Alan Simpson MP
Special Advisor to UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate
on Renewable Energy and Feed-in-Tariffs
“Inspiring and realistic…just what world governments need to
renew their commitment to the UN Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen
this December”
Chee Yokeling
Director, Third World Network
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The world can be 100 percent renewable by
2050
· A variety of truly green and affordable options already exist,
and more innovations are on the way
· Policies that promote innovations and stimulate internal market
for decentralised distributed generation are key
· Global cooperation is crucial, developed nations have an
international obligation to support developing nations to fight global warming
with renewable energies
In 2008, for the first
time, more renewable energies capacity was added globally than conventional
energies, and the trend continues.
Wind energy
alone can supply 40 times the world’s electricity or 5 times its total energy
consumption. Photovoltaic technologies are improving by leaps and bounds, and
electricity from solar panels is already as cheap as electricity from the grid.
Biogas from wastes has transformed rural China, and waste-incinerating
community cookers are poised to do the same in Africa. Air conditioning and energy
from deep water, saline agriculture for food and fuel, and estuarine reefs for
tapping tidal energy are further options in addition to well established
micro-hydroelectric and geothermal energies.
Promising
developments on the horizon include thermoelectrics for recycling waste heat
into electricity, artificial photosynthesis for harvesting and storing solar
energy, and the potential for solving our nuclear waste problem by low
temperature transmutation.
These are
exciting times. All we need to save the planet is for our leaders to follow
the way of nature and the will and wisdom of the people.
* The launch
conference is open to the public on a first come first serve basis, and costs
£15 for a prepublication copy of the report; please e-mail sam@i-sis.org.uk with name &
affiliation; or ring 44-(0)-20-7700-5948.
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