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renewables2004
Bonn, Germany,
1- 4 June, 2004
HIGHLIGHTS: Thursday, 3 June
The Ministerial segment of renewables 2004 began on Thursday.
In the afternoon, Ministerial Roundtables addressed: policies
for renewable energy market development; financing options;
and strengthening capacities, research and technology development,
and institutions. In the evening, delegates discussed the
conference outcomes. Throughout the day, numerous side events
took place.
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Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul and Jürgen Trittin welcome German
Chancellor Gerhard Schöder to renewables2004.
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Above
photos: a group of dancers and musicians opened the
Plenary sessions today.
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Jürgen
Trittin, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature
Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany.
Peter
Woicke, Managing director, World Bank, and Executive
Vice President, IFC.
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PLENARY
SESSION
Opening
and Keynotes
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to:
Jürgen
Trittin, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature
Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany.
Gerhard
Schröder, Chancellor of the Federal Republic
of Germany.
Klaus
Töpfer, UN Under-Secretary General, Executive
Director, UNEP.
Hama
Amadou, Prime Minister of the Republic of Niger
Peter
Woicke, Managing Director, World Bank, and Executive
Vice President, International Finance Corporation.
Margot
Wallström, European Commissioner for the Environment
José
António Ocampo, UN Under-Secretary General,
UNDESA.
Hermann
Scheer, Chair, International Parliamentary Forum
(IPF).
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Gerhard
Schröder, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of
Germany.
Hama Amadou, Prime Minster of the Republic of Niger
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Klaus
Töpfer, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive
Director.
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Hermann Scheer, Chair, International Parliamentary Forum
(IPF).
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José
Antonio Ocampo, UN Under-Secretary General, UNDESA.
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Opening and Keynotes Plenary session panel members left
to right (front row ): Mohammed Al-Ashrey, Margarita
Wolf, Jürgen Trittin, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
and Michael Hoffman. |
ROUNDTABLE
SESSIONS
Financing
Options for Renewable Energy
(Above
left photo) Financing Options for Renewable Energy panel
members (left to right: Eminent
Expert: Marianne Haug, Director, Energy Efficiency,
Technology and R&D, International Energy Agency;
Janez
Kopac, Minister of the Environment, Spatial Planning
and Energy, Slovenia; Alan
Ganoo: Minister of Public Utilities, Mauritius; Enrique
Iglesias, President, Inter-American Development Bank.
(Above right photo) Participants
of the Financing Options Roundtable. |
Discussion
of Conference Outcomes
Panelists
of the Plenary session, from left to right:
Christopher Flavin; Serge Lepeltier; Simone
Probst; Svend Sigaard. |
Strengthening
Capacities, Research and Technology Development, Institutions.
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Participants
listening to David Garman highlight that the
US is the world's leading producer and consumer
of renewable energy, and outline his country’s
efforts to advance renewable energy in the
developing world.
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David Garman,Acting Under-Secretary,
US Department of Energy.
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SIDE
EVENTS:
Renewables,
Energy Policy and Climate Targets
Joaquin Nieto, Trade Union Confederation of CCOO,
outlined the role of trade unions in supporting
renewable energy in Spain. |
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Participants at the Renewables, Energy Policy
and Climate Targets side event. |
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Jeremy Eppel, UK Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs.
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Increasing
the Global Uptake of Renewable and Energy- efficient
Technologies
This side event focused on the work
of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Partnership (REEEP).
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Marianne Moscoso-Osterkorn, the newly-appointed
Director of REEEP's International Secretariat,
and John Roberts, Chair of the UK Business Council
for Sustainable Energy.
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AROUND
THE CONFERENCE CENTRE
Christoph
Sutter, Leslie Paas and Fiona Koza working
on the daily Renewables2004 Bulletin, IISD.
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Bonizella
Biagini (Italy), ready to answer questions
at the Global Environment Fund (GEF) exhibit
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In
the afternoon, Greenpeace youth staged
and event in front of the main doors
of Bonn's International Conference Center
in order to stress the importance of
international policy and commitments
for the implementation of renewable
energies. |
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Jürgen
Trittin and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
pressed their hands into the Greenpeace
youth sun to symbolize their Germany's
commitment to move "full speed
ahead for renewable energy".
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Above
photo, left to right: Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul,
Co-chair of renewables2004; Gerhard
Schöder, Chancellor of Germany;
and Jürgen Trittin Co-chair of
renewables2004. |
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Throughout
the afternoon, the
Greenpeace youth sun gathered country
commitments to move ahead with renewable
energy programmes.
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