One of the major outcomes of the
International Conference for Renewable
Energies (
renewables 2004) held in Bonn in June 2004 is the International Action
Programme (IAP). The IAP includes some 200 concrete actions and
commitments towards developing renewable energies, which were put
forward by a large number of governments, international organisations
and stakeholders from civil society, the private sector and other
stakeholder groups. Partners of the IAP contributed with voluntary
commitments to goals, targets and actions within their own spheres of
responsibility.
The conference conveners have mandated REN21 to carry out the follow-up
of the IAP. The REN21 Secretariat has established close
ties with the Partners of the IAP, and facilitates a comprehensive update on the progress achieved
in each submitted Action. Follow-up information on individual commitments
can be directly viewed in the
online version of the
IAP. Partners'
reports on the implementation of IAP Actions are continuously accepted and made available on-line as they reach the Secretariat.
In November 2006, the REN21 Secretariat published a report based on all
feedback received by 31 October. This latest
implementation report shows that the large majority (79%) of the commitments are being
implemented: Of the 135 Actions reported on, 21 have been completed and
86 are underway. Another 22 Actions are currently in preparation. Only 2
commitments have not begun implementation yet, with another 4 reported
as definitively abandoned. The implementation report also presents
practical lessons learnt from the follow-up.
An
impact analysis
undertaken by Öko-Institute e.V. shows that
the implemented Actions achieved a C02 reduction in the order of 86 million
tons per year as of end of 2005. If additional CO2 reductions from Actions not explicitly
quantified are considered as well, an overall total of about 100 million
tons of reduced CO2 can be estimated for end of 2005 already. If all Actions of
the IAP were to be implemented, an overall
content
analysis prepared by Öko-Institute e.V. in 2004 shows that 1.2
billion tons of CO2 could be saved annually by 2015.
Looking to the future, and based
on the lessons learnt, REN21 is making available the experience made
with the IAP. To this end, the Secretariat has benefited from
insightful reports on renewable energy policy
developments since 2004 in different world regions, as well as from
expert discussions on the specific features and virtues of
non-binding commitments.
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