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A. Sessions on Successes and Challenges for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency:

How can we meet the climate goals in a sustainable way?
Sessions on current development and technical challenges:

1. Renewable Energy in Europe

• Renewable Energy Development. Will the EU 12% Target be Reached?

By Gunnar Boye Olesen, OVE / INFORSE-Europe
 
• Example of an Upcoming Renewable Energy Technology: Cost-effective Farm Biogas Plants.

Biogas - a Coming Success (30 kb word file)
By Preben Maegaard, Danish Folkecenter for Renewable Energy.
 
• Integration of Renewable Energy in Large-scale in Energy Supply, based on Danish Situation with Windpower -current and future

(National Strategies for Management of Fluctuations in Wind Power and CHP, Case of Denmark, 92 kB word file).
By Henrik Lund PhD, Aalborg University (Henrik has worked on alternative energy plans for Denmark for more than 15 years, and is currently involved in an analysis of integration of windpower in the Danish grid with maximal use of local cogeneration plants).
 
• Renewable Energy in CEE, overview, the Successes.

By Emil Bedi, FAE / INFORSE-Europe.
Overview of RE in CEE, more statistic from other sources, see EU and US.

Cases presented by Participants (no text available online):
Biogas Development in Georgia. By Levan Tavartkiladze, Green Alternatives;
Green Energy Magazine and Self-Building Solar Collectors in Ukraine (video). By Andriy Konechenkov, Future Age Energy;

2. Energy Efficiency in Western Europe

• Potentials for Limiting Energy Consumption by Improving Technology and by Adopting a Decent Way of Life.

Sustainable Energy Future - Nordic Perspective (316 kB word file)
By Jørgen Nørgård, PhD, Danish Technical University (Jørgen has worked on energy efficiency for more than 20 years and has a worldwide reputation in the field)
 
• Development in Denmark and EU, Late Trends, Results of Policies?

By Peter Back, Danish Energy Agency (Peter is working on implementation of the Danish energy conservation strategy)

3. Energy Efficiency in CEE

• Short Status after 10 years of Restructuring. Introduction Successes with Energy Efficiency.

By Andrei Lavinia, CAN-CEE, and OlexiPasyuk,  CEE Bankwatch Network.
 
• Successes with Energy Efficiency - Cases.

Presented by participants (no text available online):
Energy Brigades in Bulgaria. By Ginette Soriano Garcia, Za Zemiata;
Energy Brigades in Georgia. By Lasha Chkhetia, Georgia Green Movement;
Energy Efficiency Auditing and Curriculum Planning in Galati. By Ion Constantin Zamfir, Prietenii Pamintului, Romania
Straw House Buildings in Belarus. By Evgeny Shirokov, Belorus Division of the Int. Academy of Ecology

B. Sessions on Policies & Measures to Reach the Energy and Climate Goals.

• EU Climate Change Strategy. How Should EU Reach the Kyoto Goals? Should We Support the Proposed EU Emissions Trading?

By Rob Bradley, CNE.
 
• What Brings Renewable Energy to Success? About the German Renewable Energy Law and Schemes in Other Western European Countries.

Renewable Energy Legislation and Innovative Tariff Principles' Influence on Implementation (44 kB word file)
By Preben Maegaard, Danish Folkecenter for Renewable Energy.
 
• CO₂ and Energy Taxes and the Effects in Scandinavia. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Introduced CO₂ Taxes, 1990-92. What to Say about the Effects 10 years After? Is It Possible to Take a Step Further to Reach the Goals of the Kyoto Protocol?

By Anders Branth Pedersen, Aarhus University, Centre for Social Science Research on the Environment (CeSaM). (Anders was a co-author on a new Nordic assessment of CO₂ tax schemes for the Nordic Council of Ministers).
- An Evaluation of the Impact of Green Taxes in the Nordic Countries. By Anders Branth Pedersen
- Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience

Environmental Harmful energy Subsidies, -and How to Phase Them Out? OECD, UN-ECE; the EU Sustainable Development Strategy, and Several International Meetings has Called for Phase Out, Probably in 2005.
Energy Subsidies and the Environment, By Rob Bradley, CNE.
Reforming Energy Prices UN-ECE/OECD workshop material


• Sustainable Energy Planning. Examples from Denmark (295 kB word file).

By Gunnar Boye Olesen, OVE / INFORSE-Europe.
 
• Roles of MDB's for Energy & Climate in CEE.

By Olexi Pasyuk, CEE Bankwatch Network.

C. NGO Co-operation

• Nuclear Problems and NGO Co-operation: Theme on Current Nuclear Issues that Egos are Co-operating on: K2R4, Russian Waste Import? EU Nuclear Affairs, Low-level Radioactive Waste Problems.

By Charly Hulten, World Information Service on Energy,  WISE.
 
• International Climate Change Policy. What next? Climate Strategies After COP6bis.

By Rob Bradley, CNE and Andrei Lavinia, CAN-CEE.
• Pan-European Energy Co-operation, European ECO-Forum.

By Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE-Europe.


Proceedings was edited by Gunnar Boye Olesen, October 2001.