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Green paper on energy and climate change : Livre vert sur l'énergie et les changements climatiques

1 Dec 2005

The authors were contracted by the Canadian Environmental Network to summarize the views on climate change and energy of the RCEN members listed on the cover page of this paper. [...] Long-term energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies need to be developed and adopted by multi- government and multi-stakeholder entities such as the Council of Energy Ministers and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). [...] The European Council (comprising the governments of all the member states of the (EU) has confirmed, “with a view to achieving the ultimate objective of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the global annual mean surface temperature increase should not exceed 2ºC above pre-industrial levels.”20 The emerging consensus on the 2ºC target was recently reinforced, in the fall of 2004, when th [...] It will: • analyze and assess the status of renewable energy development and the problems it is facing; • explore the policy mechanisms for encouraging enterprises and financial sectors to become involved in renewable energy development; • explore the prospects and trends for the technological development of renewable energy and support its development through technology transfer; • strengthen Sou [...] Since that time the World Bank estimates that the market has grown to over US$200 million per year.44 With the coming into force of the Protocol this year and the advent of Joint Implementation and Emissions Trading, the Kyoto-compliant carbon market is expected to increase sharply in the period of 2006–2012.
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Authors

Peters, Roger

Pages
56
Published in
Canada

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