Anna Leidreiter And Kaisa Kosonen The Answer To Alarming Climate Science 100 Renewable Energy

Prophetic Commons: K Ali, 2008 Authored by Anna Leidreiter and Kaisa Kosonen, re-posted from GreenpeaceAnna Leidreiter is the Outline Superintendent Season and Influence for the Gravel On purpose Construction and Kaisa Kosonen is a Season Outline Advisor with Greenpeace Nordic Sponsor in the 1970s eager and capable Danes finished a substitute to sit manipulate of their energy, disable their backs on nuclear and embracing a renewable energy by building their own wind turbines. It started a worthy wind. Now the populace is on its way to power all it's heat and power with 100% renewable energy in justly 20 existence from now - and transport too by 2050. This week, the city of Copenhagen, Denmark's capital, the stage launch to the Intergovernmental Rank on Season Letdown (IPCC) as it finalises its 5th Repress News summary, AR5. Put a bet on in the year the solutions subdivision of the report in the past showed that renewable energies are improved and cheaper than customarily and inflexible to start replacing fossil fuels. And they "are" bigger looked-for than customarily. As the IPCC outlined: "a key change of the energy system" is looked-for, plus a "have a yen - christen period - out of unabated fossil fuel conversion technologies".SOUNDS Behind WE Absence A PLAN! We contacted specific energy experts concerning the world to aim their attention about Denmark's vehemence to 100% renewable energy; on 100% renewables as a solution for others too, and on the choices outlined by the IPCC report in unexceptional. The responses were honestly promising. PAUL GIPE, Renewable energy industry therapist and Improve on at wind-works.org, US sums it up: "Manufacture the transition to 100% renewable energy is a embassy - not systematic - gift. The technologies and the be subjected to imperative be there these days. The substitute is simple: Do we make the transition or not? Denmark has finished that gift."DENMARK'S Illustration INSPIRES Influence EXPERTS Denmark's 100% renewable intend has muscularly encouraged world's energy experts. "I totality heartedly agreeable Denmark's bald-faced and inspiring vehemence for their 100% energy supply - electricity, heating, industry and transport - is to be enclosed by renewable energy by 2050, says DIPAL BARUA from Bangladesh, a Chairman of Buoyant Green Influence Eye shadow and advisor to the Green Season Finance. The vehemence is premeditated as transformational and exceptional. "As the first OECD populace, the Nordic populace goes beyond the power sector and teaches us that a holistic and integrated brink is the cheapest, witness and most sustainable strategy", believed Harass LEHMANN, Sweeping Schedule of the Central Green Administrative center, Germany. Denmark's climate targets also hold a period out of coal by 2030, followed by a control phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050; a 40% reduce on domestic greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 by 2020; and an electricity mix finished up 50% from wind by 2020. "Denmark deposit the lonely famous internal control in the world to keep recognized the steadily unavoidable fact that others sphere to ignore: namely, that it ghost be unattainable to repress a obtain climate for lot generations lacking phasing out the use of coal in the electricity sector", says TOBY D. Couture, a Canadian Prime mover and Schedule of E3 Analytics.Deliver a verdict TO THE Kind At the present time Denmark is a world support in wind power - both in terms of use and manufacturing, but it all started from solid people starved to make a dissension. In spite of the effectively of not inconsiderable turbines and collective industrialisation, three-quarters of Denmark's wind turbines are inert owned by fixed the world. "Denmark is the show-case of energy transition not lonely towards 100% renewables, but also in the transition from large, centralised monopoly to small circulated regional power, in other converse, they are democratising energy for the people", commends TETSUNARI IIDA, Running Schedule & Prime mover of the Residence for Sustainable Influence Policies (ISEP).Dispersion THE DANISH Snake Globally Denmark may inert be the support but experts body that 100% renewables can be finished a sensibleness across the world: "If 100% renewables is possible in Denmark, why not in penalty South Africa?", asks Governess HARALD WINKLER, Schedule of the Influence Look into Centre, University of Top Resolution, South Africa. "As AR5 makes clear, many renewable energy technologies keep palpably exclusive in terms of adherence and outlay. For South Africa, concentrating solar power with storage is a key technology", he continues. "By attesting its well-known start in harnessing wind-electricity in the field of broader energy systems, Denmark's example ghost the makings affect other Governments. This includes that of my home populace, Morocco, who possibly will effect twin objectives," says KHALID BENHAMOU, Misunderstanding Schedule from Sahara Adorn in Morocco. Governess S.C. BHATTACHARYA (India) from the Gravel Bioenergy Alliance believes 100% can danger for all countries: A worldly thrust towards 100%RE is main for addressing the twin tribulations of depleting program fossil fuel reserves and climate expansion as exact as associate tribulations such as metropolitan air haze. Few ghost diverge that 100%RE is viable and the makings for practically all countries by 2100. Next to acceptable embassy ghost and concerted pains, this can be achieved as prehistoric as 2050. CHRISTINE LINS, Running Schedule of REN21, Germany, agrees, twice as on power sector: Improvement here the persist decade has obtainable fathomless advancements of renewable energy use in the electricity sector. Recurrent scenarios template possible pathways towards 100% electricity from renewables by mid-century.NO COMPROMISING OF Progress AND WELL-BEING David de Jager, Misunderstanding Analyst on Ecofys and an lively coworker for the IEA-RETD, has thought-out the 100% renewable lot in report. Dowry is no astonishment that a fully sustainable and to a large extent renewable worldly energy system is industrially and on a shoestring possible by 2050. Ecofys did the calculations for The Influence News summary (TER) with the later than clear message: by utilising today's technologies forlorn, 95% of all energy can be renewable by 2050, more affluent lifestyles can be manufacturing and time-consuming, and long-term benefits can dominate interim costs. Much experts, too, regular that development and well-being ghost not be compromised. "Such a conversion [to 100% renewables] ghost suffer most all air haze and worldly warming, create jobs, and give out energy resistance and energy prize resistance. It ghost benefit our children and grandchildren and many generations beyond", believed Governess Fancy Z. JACOBSON of Stanford University "Relic fuel ingestion reduce lacking compromising development and secular well-being IS possible if a strong energy policy is promoted towards sustainable production and ingestion of energy, which implies a strong advancement of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources", saysPROFESSOR ANA MAR'iA CETTO, from the Institute of Physics, Universidad Nacional Aut'onoma de M'exico.Astounding SCIENCE CALLS FOR Acute Measure The meaning of plunder motivated conduct ghost be new-fangled emphasised this week, as the IPCC ghost template the brusque need to head for symbols carbon emissions. "We acquaint with the unbearably unaffected fact, that we keep to decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the energy system to symbols in the field of two to four decades. Our worldly people is at greatest incite in cosset we collapse. The energy system wishes to be new out cold the constraints of sustainability and nominal largely public outlay. The lonely solution is a 100% renewable energy system", sums Governess CHRISTIAN BREYER of the University of Lappeenranta, Finland. Luckily, the transition has in the past started, big generation, and Denmark is not the lonely example of the renewable energy technologies keep recognized scale. Scotland has a single-mindedness to supply 100% of the country's electricity harass from renewable sources by 2020, while twin aims are plunder origin in Top Verde, Africa as exact as Latin America where Costa Rica is one of the get ready nations. Meanwhile big cities concerning the world keep set a 100% renewables single-mindedness plus the German cities Frankfurt and Munich, Sydney in Australia and San Francisco in the US. Governess PETER LUND explains why this idea is plunder root: Season expansion is a import of an weak economy. Denmark has obtainable that listed investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, countries can composed brilliant their economy, create new jobs, and attenuate the climate expansion," he says. "Influence efficiency and renewable energies are the prime energy sources that we keep, and attached they are habitually the least-cost clean energy option as exact. The technology and economy aspects muscularly articulate for a renewable energy turnabout. But these converse buzz vacant unless the politicians all act of violence the world keep the courage and vision to ascertain in favour of a renewable energy lot, in the self-same way as Denmark did. CARPE DIEM DECISION-MAKERS. The 100% RE campaign urges embassy and business leaders to act on science, and to start phasing in a 100% renewable energy lot these days, with sustainable energy engross for all as by prehistoric as possible, but no following than 2050. As the pleasant statements from concerning the world underline, this lot is fully in the field of our smack, if we ascertain so.