WCRE
Also indexed as: World Council for Renewable Energy
Website: www.world-council-for-renewable-energy.org
During the International Impulse Conference for the Creation of an International
Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), from 8 -10 June 2001 in Berlin, the signatories
founded the independent World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) to consider
and deal with the following factors:
- the fact that global energy demand is increasing faster than the introduction
of Renewable Energy;
- the comprehensive impacts, climate hazards, burdens to the environment, risk
of accidents, conflicts around exhausting resources have caused an urgent need to
replace nuclear and fossil energy by renewable ones and focus new investments
on Renewable Energy and energy efficiency;
- the huge discrepancies in energy system requirements between nuclear and
fossil energy on the one hand and Renewable Energy on the other require different
sources, techniques, infrastructures, investors, forms of business organisation, as
well as different economic calculations and political framework conditions;
- because of the infancy of Renewable Energy, the ongoing dominance of vested
interests so far mostly favours conventional energy to the disadvantage of renewable
ones;
- the tremendous natural potential of Renewable Energy could meet - by means
of numerous existing and developing technologies for conversion, storage, and
utilisation - the energy demand of the whole of mankind sustainably, emission free
and ecologically balanced;
- the experience that the Renewable Energy potential and its opportunities for
mankind are still underestimated in theory and not sufficiently considered in practice;
- the necessity to show the Renewable Energy Potential and the concomitant
comprehensive political, economic, technical and cultural opportunities, to overcome
the manifold barriers and to speed up the dissemination of Renewable Energy;
- the necessity to comprehensively stimulate the promotion of Renewable Energy
in the fields of policy, economy, and research and development
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CANADA
Canadian Association for Renewable Energies (we c.a.r.e.)
MALTA
MEEREA - Malta Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energies Association
PERU
Universidad Catolica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo
