Speech by Dr. Hermann Scheer, MP, President of EUROSOLAR, General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE), Panel “Rethinking the Energy Paradigm” of the WTO Symposium of the United Nations Foundation, Geneva, April 21st, 2005The ethics of a speech should be to tell the truth. The truth of the global energy situation is: Our world faces a turning point. We are about to cross the borderline of the present global energy system: The liquid oil and the natural gas resources – that is 60% of the present commercial energy supplies and demands are running out. Proposals to extend the life time of the fossil energy system by using so-called non conventional fossil energies will lead to tremendous price progressions and will definitely overburden the ecosphere.
Speech WTO Symposium 2005 (pdf)