Press Relase by the International 100% Renewable Power Platform:
100% Renewable Power: Important Response to the Local weather Disaster
Bonn, 15 June 2023 – On the event of the UN Local weather Change Convention SB58 at the moment happening in Bonn, the International 100% Renewable Power Platform and its members name on the world group to concentrate on 100% renewable power as the first device that alone can guarantee sustainable improvement, assist obtain SDG aim 7 and supply efficient local weather change mitigation.
Accordingly, Global100RE calls on all nationwide and subnational governments and the world group to recognise:
1. A 100% renewable power provide is the important thing reply to the local weather disaster and have to be the brand new regular.
2. There’s an abundance of renewable power, equalling greater than 10’000 occasions the present world power provide, which is greater than adequate to cowl the worldwide power demand.
3. A renewable power world needs to be constructed from the underside up, as a result of it’s essentially decentralised, utilizing native sources reminiscent of land, panorama, pure atmosphere, and so forth. Native options shall be primarily based on a mixture of the totally different renewable applied sciences together with storage and different flexibility choices.
4. Communities world wide have already confirmed {that a} decentralised renewable power economic system does work, that it’s useful for these communities and that the essential precept may be universally utilized.
5. A renewable power world is just not solely the reply to the local weather disaster, however can present common entry to power and brings manifold different advantages reminiscent of extra democracy, extra participation, much less air pollution. And renewable energies are energies for peace.
6. Power and local weather insurance policies have to be enablers so as to mobilise the mandatory financial, social and ecological sources that would be the foundation for a renewable power world. Utilizing renewable power is a primary proper of each human being and should not be restricted.
7. Governments and worldwide organisations should recognise the important thing position of residents and communities in a renewable power world. Accordingly, cities and native governments are key enablers and catalysts.
8. The world ought to chorus from applied sciences reminiscent of carbon seize (utilisation) and sequestration CCS/CCUS or nuclear energy as they carry pointless dangers at extraordinarily excessive price, serving solely the few buyers.
9. All subsidies for fossil and nuclear power sources have to be phased out, so as to create a degree taking part in subject and reveal the phantasm of low-cost fossil or nuclear power.
10. The world power provide can and shall be totally transformed to 100% renewable power as quickly as doable.
Julie Ducasse, Analyst at CAN Worldwide: “In keeping with the newest report on the Sustainable Growth Aim 7 for power, 675 million individuals have been nonetheless with out electrical energy in 2021, and near 570 million in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. Renewable power is vital to overcoming this barrier of inequitable power entry. It’s the solely viable, clear and secure different to fossil fuels and have to be scaled up urgently, That is important for future generations.”
Stefan Gsänger, WWEA Secretary Basic: “We should urgently speed up the change to renewable power in order that we have now reached a full renewable power provide within the coming decade. Empowering residents and communities is a key for this aim.”
Dr. Tetsu Iida, ISEP Director: “We have already got the applied sciences and the funding to realize 100% renewable power world. What we’d like now to speed up that is insurance policies that permit for broad citizen and group participation and possession.”
Dr. David Renne, ISES Board Member: “We all know that nearly all of our finish use power wants may be met with clear, low price renewable power applied sciences. Given the local weather adjustments we’re experiencing, and with the expectation of worsening future adjustments, governments, the enterprise group, and civil society should make this inexpensive transition occur extra rapidly by working collectively to deal with a goal for having all of our power wants met by renewable power applied sciences in a simply and equitable approach.”
Maryke van Staden, Director of ICLEI’s carbonn Local weather Heart: “Assist these with out power by empowering them by renewables for cooking, heating/cooling, electrical energy and transport. Assist the world by committing to and implementing instantly a 100% renewable power transition technique. It is a viable and sustainable method, important to reply to the worldwide local weather emergency. We want management from all nationwide governments, subnational governments, civil society, enterprise and trade now!”
