REN21 Network partners will be hosting or participating in a number of side events during the WIREC 2008 Conference. This is a preliminary list: 

• Renewables 2007 Global Status Report (GSR)
  Organiser: REN21 with Worldwatch Institute
  With: Global Status Report correspondents
  Topics: REN21 GSR
  Tuesday 4 March, 12.30-14.00    Room: 156
   
• Renewable Energy Strategies and Opportunities in Morocco
  Organiser: Moroccan American Trade & Investment Center & Embassy of Morocco
  With: Minister of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment, Director General CDER
  Topics: Energy sector overview, strategic plan guiding energy growth in the coming decades, alternative energy investment programme and projects, specific projects available to international partners.
  Tuesday 4 March, 12.30-14.00    Room: to be allocated
   
• Sustainability Criteria Biomass
  Organiser: German Ministry for Environment
  With: European Commission, United Kingdom, GBEP
  Topics: Sustainability Criteria Biomass
  Tuesday 4 March, 12.30-14.00    Room: to be allocated
   
• Asia-Pacific Partnership - Accelerating the Growth of Renewable Energy Technologies
  Organiser: Asia-Pacific Partnership
  With: US Department of Energy, US Department of Commerce
  Topics: APP acceleration of development and deployment of renewable energy technologies
  Tuesday 4 March, 12.30-14.00    Room: 159 A
   
• Renewable Energy Policy in Europe (20% in 2020)
  Organiser: European Renewable Energy Council, REN21
  With: European Commission (DG TREN and DG ENV), German Ministry for Environment, IEA RETD, REN21
  Topics: Targets and policies in EU member countries; the industry's point of view
  Tuesday 4 March, 17.00-18.30    Room: 143 A
  
  
• Grid Integration of Renewable Electricity - Innovative Approaches
  Organiser: German Ministry for Environment, IEA
  With: German Ministry for Environment, IEA
  Topics: Grid Integration of Renewable Electricity - Innovative Approaches
  Tuesday 4 March, 17.00-18.30    Room: 158 AB
   
• China Renewable Energy Scale-up Program (CRESP)
  Organiser: China
  With:
  Topics: China Renewable Energy Scale-up Program
  Tuesday 4 March, 17.00-18.30    Room: to be allocated
   
• Accelerating Deployment of Renewable Energy Technologies
  Organiser: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
  With: US Department of State, ACORE, ASE, Canadian Ministry for Environment
  Topics: Regional report from REEEP and US Department of State
  Tuesday 4 March, 17.00-18.30    Room: to be allocated
   
• Designing Sustainable Energy Markets: The African Experience
  Organiser: German Development Cooperation
  With: German Fed. Ministry for Economic Coop. and Dvpt, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Commission DG Development, REN21
  Topics: Renewable energy in Africa: potentials, markets, strategies. Best practice and the German and Dutch development cooperation
  Wednesday 5 March, 12.30-14.00    Room: 159 AB
   
• Renewable Energy Technology Deployment
  Organiser: Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy
  With: IEA RETD and REN21
  Topics: Political leadership for deployment of renewable energy technologies, energy scenarios and forecasts, real costs and benefits of all energy technologies
  Wednesday 5 March, 12.30-14.00    Room: 155
   
• Community and Bottom-Up Strategies Driving 100% World-wide Renewable Energy Future
  Organiser: International Renewable Energy Alliance
  With: International Solar Energy Society
  Topics: Benefits for local communities, best practise examples of successful community strategies, added value of local and state level legislation, role of IREA organisations
  Thursday 6 March, 12.00-13.30    Room: 143 C
   
• Clean Energy Innovation
  Organiser: The World Bank
  With: American Council on Renewable Energy
  Topics: Deployment policies in industrial and developing countries, renewable energy scenarios
  Thursday 6 March, 15.00-16.30    Room: to be allocated
   
• Renewable Energy and Biofuels in Latin America and Caribbean
  Organiser: Organisation of American States
  With: US Department of State
  Topics: Renewable energy and biofuels in Latin America and Caribbean
  Thursday 6 March, 15.00-16.30    Room: to be allocated
   
• Economic Impact of Renewable Energy
  Organiser: American Council on Renewable Energy
  With: Rockefeller Brothers Fund
  Topics: Economic impact of renewable energy
  Thursday 6 March, 16.30-18.00    Room: to ba allocated
   
• The German success story of renewable electricity development: preconditions and future challenges
  Organiser: German Renewable Energy Federation
  With: German Associations
  Topics: Defining Sustainable Hydropower
  Thursday 6 March, 17.00-18.30    Room: to be allocated
   
• New Alliances for a New Energy Future
  Organiser: Energy Future Coalition
  With: ACORE, EREC, CREIA, WCRE
  Topics: New Alliances for a New Energy Future
  Thursday 6 March, 17.00-18.30    Room: to be allocated
   
• Government Procurement of Renewable Energy
  Organiser: US State Department, E Bureau
  With: Germany
  Topics: Government Procurement of Renewable Energy
  Thursday 6 March, 17.00-18.30    Room: to be allocated
   
• Defining Sustainable Hydropower
  Organiser: International Hydropower Association
  With: National Hydropower Association, WWF
  Topics: Defining Sustainable Hydropower
  Friday 7 March, 9:00-10.30    Room: to be allocated
   
• Renewable Energy Scenarios - Energy (r)evolution
  Organiser: Greenpeace
  With: European Renewable Energy Council, Global Wind Energy Council
  Topics: Energy (r)evolution
  Friday 7 March, 9:00-10.30    Room: to be allocated
   
• International Trade and Sustainability
  Organiser: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
  With: Denmark, World Bank, European Patent Office
  Topics: International Trade and Sustainability
  Friday 7 March, 9:00-10.30    Room: to be allocated
   

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