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Renewable meetings
The seriousness of the situation is generating new meetings on sustainability and renewable
energies. German convention centres also see it as an opportunity.
■ Responsibility. 2010 is the tenth anniversary of Germany’s
Renewable Energy Law (EEG). Germany generated 93bn kWh of
renewable energy in 2009, 16 per cent of the country’s electricity
consumption, according to the Bundesverband Energie- und
Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW), a German association representing
1,800 energy and water companies with a total of 280,000
employees. The BDEW will be meeting in Berlin from 29 June to 1
July in Berlin. Over 1,400 delegates came to the conference in
2009, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, who, having fought in
vain for a global climate agreement in Copenhagen, is now
campaigning for an interim climate conference at the ministerial
level in Bonn in 2010. She wants to add an international ministerial
meeting to the regular cycle of conferences organised by the United
Nations Climate Change Secretariat.
The 19 UN organisations in Bonn make it an ideal platform for
talking about strategies that conserve resources. The “two degree”
initiative launched by the city’s mayor, Jürgen Nimptsch, fits in with
the chancellor’s aim of reducing German and EU emissions by 25
per cent from 1990 levels. Nimptsch is raising a symbolic levy of
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four euros a year from each person to finance projects that reduce
greenhouse gas emissions in Bonn and cities in the developing
world. The “Carbonn” project is committed to collecting climate data
based on a common standard, as part of the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP).
The World Energy Dialogue organised by the Federation of
German Industries (BDI) and the German Energy Agency (dena) from
19 to 23 April, as part of Hannover Messe 2010, will be international
in scope – as the name suggests. Focusing on how renewable
energies and energy efficiency are core elements of sustainable,
interconnected systems all over the world, it will include a presentation
of Desertec, the project that aims to supply Europe, the Middle
East and Africa with electricity from renewable energy by 2050.
Green IT will be the big issue at CeBIT from 2 to 6 March 2010 in
Hall 8 at Hannover Fairgrounds. The SMART 2020 study by
McKinsey for the UK-based Climate Group found that ICT could save
up to 7.8bn tonnes of CO 2 across all global economic sectors by
2020. One of the themes in the “CeBIT green IT 2010” ��
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