Press Conference and Energy Report on the Question What Will the Global Energy Supply
of the Future be Like? Can the Climate Still be Protected in the Face of Economic
Recession?
BERLIN, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
- Global Report Launch: Energy [R]evolution: Global Sustainable Energy Outlook
Dear Sir or Madam,
Gigantic sums of money have evaporated completely in the past few weeks
of global financial crisis. Meanwhile a much more urgent problem has for a
short time receded into the background. Climate change threatens not only the
financial sector but the whole of mankind. We want to show you what positive
effects consistent action to protect the climate can also have for the
economy. The report presented at this press conference, energy [r]evolution -
A Sustainable Global Energy Outlook - contains a detailed analysis of the
global potential in energy efficiency and of the transport sector, together
with an analysis of global and regional developments in costs in the
electricity sphere until 2030.
Acting on behalf of Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council,
scientists at the German Aerospace Research Centre and Dutch energy
institute, Ecofys, have examined what the alternatives are for supplying
energy in industrialised countries and the up-and-coming developing countries
of China and India, and when the further expansion of coal-fired power plants
in these countries can be stopped. A new political instrument for supporting
renewable energy in developing countries will be presented.
Copies of the new 210 page report with one global and 10 regional energy
scenarios, an executive summary will be online on October 27th, 2008, 10 AM
CET under:
For more information contact:
Sven Teske, energy expert, Greenpeace International, +49-171-8787 552
Alex Dawe, Greenpeace International communications officer, +31-629001146
Source: Greenpeace
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