Speeches
Speech by Dr. Herman Scheer, MP, General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) at the ACORE Conference Renewable Energy in America, Washington, December 7th, 2004The Watershed between Conventional and Renewable Energies
Our world is faced with an ongoing energy crisis. Its origin lies in the dependency on energy sources, which do not offer a future, because they are limited and restrict more and more the quality of life of the people, the world economy, and the access to energy. Moreover, the dominating fossil and nuclear energy system absorbs too much of the water potential and contributes to the ongoing water scarcity in more and more regions which is exacerbating the vulnerability of our societies. And it endangers the climate of our globe. All these dangers would not exist on a Renewable Energy basis.
Laudatio for Dr. Hermann Scheer by Preben Maegaard in Beijing, China, November 1st, 2004 Dear Hermann,
This year the World Wind Energy Association is giving the World Wind Energy Award to you. As the legislator, writer, speaker, organizer and energy expert you have made decisive contributions for decades at the broadest possible level towards the general and unconditional acceptance and utilization that renewable energy enjoys worldwide.
Speech of Dr. Hermann Scheer, General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE), President of EUROSOLAR, at the 19th European PV Conference, Paris, June 7th to 11th, 2004 The Acceleration of PV and the Role of the German Programme
Mr. Chairman, dear friends. I speak to you in different capacities. One is as a General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy. Last week, just before the International Govermental Conference on Renewables, we organized the Second World Renewable Energy Forum and adopted the World Renewable Energy Agenda. Moreover I speak in my capacity as President of EUROSOLAR, I think it is now the 11th time without exception that I spoke in the opening session of the European Photovoltaic Conference, since ‘89 in Freiburg. Therefore I can look back to the last 15 years of development.
Speech "The Acceleration of PV and the Role of the German Programme" (pdf)
Speech of Dr. Hermann Scheer MP, Chairman of the International Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energies, in the main session of the International Conference for Renewable Energy, "Renewables 2004", Bonn, June 3rd, 2004Dear fellow delegates, Your Excellencies,
Renewable energy sources are dispersed everywhere and must be technologically harnessed there. That is why the direct representatives of the people are the committed political advocates of these energy sources. This was the common denominator of the participants of the International Parliamentary Forum – with more than 300 representatives from 80 countries.
Closing Speech of Dr. Hermann Scheer, Chairman of the International Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energies, Bonn, June 2nd, 2004We now have ten hours of the International Parliamentary Forum behind us. Around sixty parliamentarians have taken the floor, and we have heard speeches from colleagues from every continent. Paragraph 14 of our Resolution states: "We, the parliamentarians of this International Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energies, commit to seek to enforce the considerations and recommendations of this resolution in our respective countries. We commit to seek the approval of this resolution in our respective parliaments in order to use the large potential of renewable energies to tackle the challenges humankind is facing."
Introduction of Dr. Hermann Scheer, Chairman of the International Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energies, Bonn, June 2nd, 2004
Vice-President Lammert, esteemed colleagues from more than seventy countries who are attending this Forum, as I recall, this is only the second example of a parliamentary conference taking place on this type of theme. Parliamentary conferences have been held within the framework of international organizations such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union, but there is only one previous example of an international parliamentary conference on environmental issues taking place outside this framework. In 1990, the US Senate hosted an Interparliamentary Conference on the Global Environment in Washington. It was prepared by a group of US Senators. Vice President Al Gore headed the preparatory group and chaired the conference itself. The Washington conference concluded with a very ambitious and exciting strategy to avert a global climate disaster. I myself attended the conference and helped to draft the final declaration.
Albert Einstein, one of the most famous physicists of all times, once concluded his life experience in the following sentence: “It is impossible to solve a problem with the same means that caused this problem.” And Max Planck, another famous physicist, concluded his experiences on changing paradigms: “A New scientific truth does not triumph by convincing the advocates of the old truth and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die out and a new generation grows up familiar with it.”
