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.