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Past Daidalos Colums and Comments
Past At Stake Colums and Comments

REN21 Newsletters "News and Update"

01 July 2008
Clean Energy Investments Charge Forward Despite Financial Market Turmoil

22 May 2008
Information and Communications Manager

10 April 2008
REN21 Seeks New Head of Secretariat

28 March 2008
Washington International Renewable Energy Conference Collects 130 International Pledges to Advance Renewable Energy

27 February 2008
REN21 Releases "Renewables 2007: Global Status Report

22 February 2008
Danish Government Announces Pledge to Advance Renewable Energy for WIREC 2008

21 February 2008
WIREC 2008 Side Events

15 January 2008
Washington International Renewable Energy Conference Collects Voluntary Pledges To Advance Renewable Energy

8 December 2007
"Mainstream" Renewable Energy Continues Double-digit Growth - Best option to mitigate carbon emissions

15 October 2007
REN21 congratulates IPCC on Nobel Peace Prize

10 September 2007
Great Opportunities for Rapid Deployment of Renewables in Gleneagles Dialogue Countries

7 July 2007
Washington to Host Global Renewables Conference WIREC 2008

25 June 2007
Climate Change Worries, High Oil Prices, and Government Policy Fuelling Hot Renewable Energy Investment Climate

18 May 2007
Benefitting from Renewables: Investment and Deplyoment

16 May 2007
REN21 Co-hosts Discussion on Leadership for Sustainable Energy Development

20 April 2007
Renewables on the Agenda of the European Neighbourhood

1 March 2007
Side Event at the Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting for CSD15

14 December 2006
Workshop on Impacts of the International Renewable Energy Policy Process

28 November 2006
Latest IAP Implementation Report pulished

15 November 2006
The World’s Energy in 2030 and the Role for Renewables: What can be expected, what can be achieved?

28 August 2006
The GEF and REN21 turn the spotlight on Renewable Energy in Africa

19 July 2006
New REN21 2006 Global Status Report
"2005: Record year for investments in renewable energy"

2 June 2006
Two years after Bonn: Successful implementation of the International Action Programme

8 May 2006
Bonn International Action Programme Follow Up Shows Unbroken Worldwide Dynamic For Renewable Energy Advancement

6 May 2006
Mohamed El-Ashry Elected New Chair of REN21 Steering Committee

8 February 2006
REN21 releases report on RE and Climate Change

9 December 2005
reegle.info - Actors Catalogue launched

7 December 2005
Side event in Montreal: Renewables – a Ready to Go Technology to Reduce GHG

6 November 2005
REN21 Releases "Renewables 2005: Global Status Report"

25 October 2005
REN21 at GVEP Partners Assembly

25 October 2005
4th World Wind Energy Conference 2005: register now!

19 October 2005
Third REN21 Steering Committee meeting in Beijing

27 September 2005
REN21 and REEEP ask for your comments on the Information Clearinghouse.

15 September 2005
REN21 Releases Report on Renewable Energy for Poverty Alleviation

14 July 2005
G8 leaders support goals of REN21 at the Gleneagles Summit

20 May 2005
Second meeting of interim Steering Committee (ISC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2-3 June 2005

Past Daidalos Colums and Comments

30 May 2008, Michael Liebreich:
Biofuels not main player in the food price heist

28 February 2008, Eric Martinot:
Renewables 2007 Global Status Report – an exercise in global collaboration

4 January 2008, Jamal Saghir:
Accelerating the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy in Developing Countries and Leveraging Private Investment

9 October 2007, Steve Sawyer:
Climate Change: The Immediate Task

15 August 2007, Virginia Sonntag-O'Brien:
RE Investment: Enormous Peanuts!

4 June 2007, Michael Eckhart:
U.S. Department of State to Host 2008 Washington International Renewable Energy Conference

5 March 2007, Stephen Karekezi:
What Works for Renewables in Africa!

17 January 2007, Neil Hirst:
Strong Policy Support Key to Benefit from Renewables

27 October 2006, Mohamed T. El-Ashry:
Beyond Kyoto: A Proposed Framework for a New International Agreement on Climate Change

Past At Stake Colums and Comments

18 June 2008, Mika Ohbayashi:
The long road towards a sustainable low-carbon society: The G8 Summit at Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan

REN21 News and Update

02 Jul 2008
CO2 Impact Analysis of WIREC 2008 Pledges
NREL has now produced a draft report to estimate the CO2 impact of the WIREC 2008 pledges. Participants' feed-back is welcome.

1 Jul 2008
Clean Energy Investments Charge Forward Despite Financial Market Turmoil
With end of cheap oil, renewables and energy efficiency attracts fast-growing interest; New investment surpasses $148 billion in 2007, a 60% rise from 2006; Growth continues in 2008, UNEP study says.

18 Apr 2008
Renewable Energy Conference in Dakar, Senegal
Side event: Potential, markets and strategies for renewable energy in Africa. Presentation of forthcoming report.

28 Mar 2008
WIREC Pledge Count
The United States has announced that it will continue collecting pledges for the Washington International Action Program through April 4, 2008.

27 Feb 2008
2007 Global Status Report Shows Perceptions Lag Reality The renewable energy industry is stepping up its meteoric rise into the mainstream of the energy sector, according to the REN21 Renewables 2007 Global Status Report.

22 Feb 2008
Danish Government Announces Pledge to Advance Renewable Energy for WIREC 2008

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