reegle is the official blog for DIREC
Vienna and Delhi, 29.07.2010 - reegle Staff
As the official blog for DIREC 2010, the reegle website will be an exclusive source of inside information about the conference, and will also do some live-coverage during the event. The blog will include on-the-spot reports from the conference, ensuring you have a front seat view on the latest developments in in upscaling and mainstreaming renewables for energy security, climate change and economic development.
DIREC 2010 is the fourth in the series of International Renewable Energy Conferences, which follows from the initiative taken at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, acknowledging the significance of renewable energy for sustainable development. It is an international platform for government, private sector, and civil society leaders to jointly address the goal of advancing renewable energy.
In previous “IREC’s” (Washington 2008 and Bonn 2004) our friends from REN21 have been responsible for an International Action Programme. The idea was to collect concrete actions and commitments towards developing renewable energies during the conferences (“Pledges”) and follow that up after the conference (also see their database of pledges).
In Bonn more than 200 pledges were collected and during WIREC in Washington 145 pledges constituted the major result of this conference. This year, the host government of India together with REN21 invite governments and other stakeholders to pledge voluntary actions towards advancing renewable energy deployment and policy development.
The theme of this year’s Pledge Programme is ‘mainstreaming’ renewable energy into the development of a low carbon pathway. Furthermore, because DIREC is being held in India, which like many countries faces enormous challenges in providing energy services to poor and rural areas, pledges targeting the deployment of renewable energy in rural areas are particularly encouraged. In implementing those pledges, countries can share good policy practice and business models to overcome these challenges.
All articles regarding DIREC 2010 will be posted in the “DIREC Category” and be available via the DIREC RSS Feed on the reegle website.