This document formed the official ISEO input to the 2004 Energy Summit in Bonn.
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Introduction

ISEO, the International Sustainable Energy Organization for renewable energy and energy efficiency, was initiated as parliamentary motion by independent Swiss National Councillor Roland Wiederkehr, supported by a large number of National Council members from six political parties in 2002, and then presented at the Johannesburg WSSD Summit. ISEO was registered in Geneva in 2003 and unanimously passed as a postulate to the Executive by the National Council in 2004. ISEO has now members in over hundred nations. The mandate of ISEO is to facilitate the world-wide transmission to a Clean Sustainable Energy Economy, based on the Global Energy Charter for Sustainable Development, appropriate international ISO standards and benign clean, renewable energy technologies.

Besides governments and communities, relevant private sector decision makers from energy stakeholders and NGOs are involved, embracing industry, finance and academia, including also individual research & technology development experts. ISEO€s web portal www.uniseo.org serves as global information exchange platform on energy technologies, sustainable energy legislation and policy, sustainability education & training, benign energy systems and infrastructure financing, international standardization, full energy costing, human behaviour, energy statistics and forecasting. ISEO is compiling complete world renewable energy mix forecasts for feasible sustainable global energy scenarios and action plans.

This document includes:

1. Introduction
2. The Position of ISEO among International Institutions and Activities
2.1 History of ISEO
2.2 The Mandate of ISEO and Memberships
2.3 The Global Energy Charter for Sustainable Development
2.4 The Impact of ISEO on Legislation
3. The Implementation Means and Tools
3.1 Baselines of the ISEO Strategy
3.2 Program of Activities
3.3 Organization Chart and Role of the ISEO Coordinators
3.4 The ISEO Web Portal Concept www.uniseo.org
3.5 Importance of international standards
3.6 The Blueprint for the Clean, Sustainable Energy Age
3.7 Environmental Imperatives
4. Outlook

About the Authors and Reviewers

• Gustav R. Grob is professional industrial engineer, member of the Swiss Electrotechnical Association, former Dean of the world-wide SGS-Redwood Petroleum Training School, Chairman of the ISO/TC203 WG for energy systems analysis, initiator of ISO TC197 on hydrogen energy and other ISO committees, President of the International Clean Energy Consortium ICEC, President of CMDC and Executive Secretary of ISEO.
• Johann Widmer graduated as process engineer, has world-wide project experience, was energy storage expert at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, is Vice President of the international consultancy group Cosit AG, Zurich, President of the Competence Transfer Foundation, Board Member of CMDC, and co-founder and acting President of ISEO. He is lecturer and author of books on IT and material sciences.
• Hans Hänni holds a PhD in physics from Berne University, was program director of ProClim, the climate protection department of the Swiss Academy of Science, didactic internet program coordinator at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and is now Secretary General of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences, was confounder of ISEO and one of its first Vice Presidents.
• Reviewed by ISEO Co-Founder Richard Ottinger, Dean-Emeritus, Pace Law School and former US Congressman, who co-initiated and reviewed also the Global Energy Charter for Sustainable Development, and by other ISEO Members for completeness and Secretarial Staff for proof reading and formatting.