mardi 7 avril 2009

Conference in Washington to discuss renewable energy technology

World pump 71 billion dollars in alternative energy projects in 2007 compared with the forty billion dollars in 2005
The United States will host an international conference for renewable energy, and attended by ministers of more than eighty countries in the world, as well as companies specialized in the development of environmentally friendly technology. The conference, which begins Tuesday and will last four days of modern technology used in the development of energy alternatives. It is the third since 2004 when the first was held in Bonn, followed by the Beijing Conference in 2005. The meeting agreed in Bonn on a plan of action to promote the use of alternative energy plan, however, were not binding. The U.S. State Conference held in Washington, DC is a mature phase characterized by the challenge posed by the expansion in the use of renewable energy. And warned of an international committee comprising representatives of government last year in a series of reports that seven years before the government to begin to change the trend of rising emissions of greenhouses gases, which have the responsibility for global warming.
Global investment
The investments have been in the areas of the global alternative energy a big rise in the previous two years. Was injected 71 billion dollars in alternative energy projects in 2007 compared with the forty-billion in 2005, according to the Renewable Energy Foundation which was established in 2004 to follow up the implementation of the commitments of the Bonn Conference. It seems that it was difficult to meet those obligations. Denmark was the only country which has revealed a set of goals specific to this area, and the organizers of the conference plans to delay publication for months, to encourage participants to submit proposals. U.S. officials say that the conference provides an opportunity to present achievements in developing renewable energy technology, it also gives governments the opportunity to renew their commitments on the development of energy alternatives and reducing consumption of fossil fuels is responsible for emissions of carbon dioxide.

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