 Bonn, 5 January 2012
Time for Code RED - the Renewable Earth Decade
After ending the reign of nuclear power, time to end fossil fuel burning
While in Durban the appalling plan was hatched to maintain collective inaction for almost another decade, a team of Russian and US scientists readied their Powerpoint presentation for an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Fransciso. It reported of the discovery of vast new and powerful methane plumes rising from the shallow seabed along the Siberian coastline and escaping directly into the atmosphere. A greenhouse gas 20-70 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, the massive Arctic methane store, if melted, is capable of triggering uncontrollable and abrupt climate change.
The final alarm has now been sounded: time for ringing in Code RED, the Renewable Earth Decade.
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 WCRE Press Release, 14 December 2011
Great fanfare surrounded recent announcements regarding the purported adoption of nuclear power by South Africa and Nigeria. This fallacious path is hailed by some misguided leaders as the 'right to nuclear power' by the poor - perpetuating the 60-year old fantasy that splitting the atom is key to unlocking development.
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WCRE Press Release, 12 December 2011
After COP-out 17: Code RED
Durban rings death knell for emissions based negotiations control: rise of a renewable energy path to climate control can no longer wait For the 17th time the global community's attempts to control the explosion in greenhouse gas emissions has failed miserably - a tragic yet predictable outcome. The reasons were only in part power-politics-as-usual by the polluting countries, trapped in an economic model rewarding short term profit over humanity's survival.
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 Press release, Berlin/Bonn, 3 December 2011
Twelve winners from eight countries were presented with this year's European Solar Prize in Berlin on 2 December 2011. The award ceremony was held at the Berlin branch of KfW Bankengruppe. Words of commendation were said by Jo Leinen, Member of the European Parliament.
In their welcome speeches Dr Axel Nawrath, Member of the KfW Executive Board, and Prof Peter Droege, President of EUROSOLAR, emphasized the diverse range of ideas and practical applications the recipients used to exemplary effect on the deployment of renewable energy. The annual European Solar Prize is handed out by EUROSOLAR, the European Association for Renewable Energy, in cooperation with KfW Bankengruppe.
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 6th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition
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November 28-30, 2011
Because of the huge success EUROSOLAR and the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) have continued the IRES series in 2011 in cooperation with EnergyAgency.NRW.
The view in the professional energy storage world is that IRES has meanwhile developed into the central platform for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas on one of the key issues of future energy supply. IRES 2010 attracted attendance from 41 countries with 600 attendees. Also this year, around 600 attendees from Germany, Europe and abroad took part in the event.
The conference proceedings will go online around December 15, all IRES 2011 attendees will then receive an email notification containing their personal login information.
IRES 2012 will take place in late November 2012, more details will be available soon.
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Press information, Bonn/Wuppertal
September 2, 2011
EUROSOLAR, in cooperation with EnergyAgency.NRW, invites to the 6th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (IRES), taking place in Berlin from November 28-30, 2011.
The battery and storage technology conference has meanwhile become the industry’s natural meeting place to discuss and share insights into one of the key issues of future energy supply. The organizers expect a number of more than 600 attendees from around the world again this year. It will be held at the Berlin Congress Center for the first time.
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 Press release, Bonn, 6 April 2011
The European Delegates' Assembly named Prof Peter Droege President of EUROSOLAR on 2 April 2011. The German Section of EUROSOLAR had nominated him. From among the Assembly delegates nine Vice-Presidents were elected. Dr Hermann Scheer founder and long-time President of EUROSOLAR was posthumously named President Emeritus.
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