 Bonn, 5 January 2012
Time for Code RED - the Renewable Earth Decade
After ending the reign of nuclear power, time to end fossil fuel burning
While in Durban the appalling plan was hatched to maintain collective inaction for almost another decade, a team of Russian and US scientists readied their Powerpoint presentation for an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Fransciso. It reported of the discovery of vast new and powerful methane plumes rising from the shallow seabed along the Siberian coastline and escaping directly into the atmosphere. A greenhouse gas 20-70 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, the massive Arctic methane store, if melted, is capable of triggering uncontrollable and abrupt climate change.
The final alarm has now been sounded: time for ringing in Code RED, the Renewable Earth Decade.
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 WCRE Press Release, 14 December 2011
Great fanfare surrounded recent announcements regarding the purported adoption of nuclear power by South Africa and Nigeria. This fallacious path is hailed by some misguided leaders as the 'right to nuclear power' by the poor - perpetuating the 60-year old fantasy that splitting the atom is key to unlocking development.
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WCRE Press Release 12 December 2011 After COP-out 17: Code RED
Durban rings death knell for emissions based negotiations control: rise of a renewable energy path to climate control can no longer wait
For the 17th time the global community's attempts to control the explosion in greenhouse gas emissions has failed miserably - a tragic yet predictable outcome. The reasons were only in part power-politics-as-usual by the polluting countries, trapped in an economic model rewarding short term profit over humanity's survival.
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 6th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition
bcc Berlin Congress Center
November 28-30, 2011
Because of the huge success EUROSOLAR and the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) have continued the IRES series in 2011 in cooperation with EnergyAgency.NRW.
The view in the professional energy storage world is that IRES has meanwhile developed into the central platform for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas on one of the key issues of future energy supply. IRES 2010 attracted attendance from 41 countries with 600 attendees. Also this year, around 600 attendees from Germany, Europe and abroad took part in the event.
The conference proceedings will go online around December 10, all IRES 2011 attendees will then receive an email notification containing their personal login information.
IRES 2012 will take place in late November 2012, more details will be available soon.
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 Symposium at the Atrium of Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin
14 October 2011
Hermann Scheer was taken from us at age 66 fully engaged in a life of ideas and initiatives, a life full of many notable achievements. With courage, far-sightedness and determination he significantly influenced the political discourse in the country in many fields. First and foremost he made the shift to renewable energy happen, a shift which he realized early was essential ecologically and for peace-making efforts. He was a thought leader and motivator, reformer and revolutionary.
In his last book, released only a few days before he died, Hermann Scheer defined the necessity of responsible action as the ‘energet(h)ical imperative’. His political companions’ obligation to the future is, therefore, to unwaveringly advance the switch to renewable energy. Created after his death, the Hermann Scheer Foundation shares the same goal.
The symposium in honor of Hermann Scheer will be held on the day of his death one year ago. It will address energy policy questions which present themselves in the course of transitioning to the age of renewable energy and look into levels of political decision-making and their effect on the legislative process.
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