Global assembly calls for human right to renewables

Energy is the fundamental prerequisite of every life, and all humans have a right to renewable energy, concludes the World Renewable Energy Assembly 2005.

“There is no more time to waste for the mobilisation of renewable energy,” says the final communique issued by 450 delegates to the week-long meeting in Germany staged by the World Council for Renewable Energy.

UN organizations and multilateral development banks are not willing to shift their priorities towards renewables, and the Kyoto Protocol “falls far short of its requirements” because the focus is on emission trading “instead of reducing emissions by a change of a paradigm shift towards renewables.”

“Any further postponing is irresponsible,” it concludes. “There are economic reasons, ecological reasons and the question of peace that speak in favour of renewable energy. All together, a basic ethic decision in favour of renewable energy is resulting from these reasons.”

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