Memoranda & Papers
WCRE paper, June, 2004
Future urban development with Renewable Energy: towards the global renewable energy habitat
The direction of modern urbanisation has reached a technological dead-end; the situation is extremely precarious, locally and globally. Global urbanisation has been fuelled by its dependency on cheap fossil fuel powered electrification and gasoline-powered transport systems. Now, as both fuel supplies approach their commercially attainable end, and it becomes apparent that almost three-quarters of man-made carbon emissions are derived from cities' fossil fuel consumption, all stops must be pulled out to go far beyond 'making cities
sustainable'. The challenge is no less than to rescue civilisation as we know it, and to avert the worst calamities.
Solar Habitat in Cities and Villages (pdf)WCRE paper, June 15th, 2002
Considerations - The unfulfilled promise of the Agenda 21
WCRE paper, June, 2002
Formation of the Group of Renewable and Efficient Energy Nations (GREEN Nations)
Considering the importance of Sustainable Development; the importance of international agenda setting as a crucial factor for global awareness about the central challenges of world development; the lack of consensus about Renewable Energy in the World Summit on Sustainable Development process...
WCRE memorandum, September, 2001
Beyond the Kyoto Protocol: Renew the Climate Protection Strategy with Renewable Energy
The global phasing in of Renewable Energy technologies offers a comprehensive and uncomplicated solution. The time has come to adopt a new paradigm in saving the global environment. The Kyoto process is ready to be transformed from its present symptom-oriented and abstract basis to a more practical and solution geared approach. The World Council for Renewable Energy, founded in Berlin in June 2001, appeals to the participants of the World Climate Conference: to embark on a new path, and prioritize renewable energy in global climate protection campaigns.
WCRE paper, August, 2001
All people are entitled to pursue their desires for a world that is increasing in its bounty, improving in its health, and growing in its capacity to host life. Each person might wish that his or her presence on this Earth will leave it slightly better off than before. Yet the economic progress of the 20th century, based on fossil fuels and nuclear and large-scale hydro power, while advancing human society in many ways, also created a rising threat to those principles.
WCRE paper, July, 2001
Draft-Statute of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
The Contracting Parties shall establish an International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), hereinafter referred to as the agency, in accordance with the following provisions and conditions...
WCRE paper, June 13th, 2001
Draft for a Supplementary Protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of July 1st, 1970
The contracting states
- in harmony with the fundamental aims of "Agenda 21", adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, championing a sustainable economic and social development consistent with the conservation of natural fundaments of life;
- considering the experience of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which took effect on July 1, 1970;
