If an international treaty to cut carbon emissions hasn’t worked how about using the opposite approach?
Instead of focusing on ”eliminating the bad” perhaps a shift toward “increasing the good” can accomplish the same goals.
10 countries have formed an international ”Renewables Club” to scale renewable energy worldwide.
Proposed by Peter Altmaier, Germany’s environment minister, founding members are: China, India, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Morocco, South Africa, Tonga and United Arab Emirates.
“As members of the Club we aim to lead by example,” says Altmaier. “The Renewables Club is a political initiative of pioneering countries that are united by an important goal: a worldwide transformation of the energy system.
“We are determined to work together as advocates and implementers of renewable energy at a global level,” he says.
These 10 countries represent over 40% of global investments in renewable energy.
Members are mostly energy ministers, the same people that attend the annual Clean Energy Ministerial Meetings, organized by the US to accelerate the transition to clean energy.
At this first meeting, ministers signed a communique pledging to accelerate the transformation to renewable energy. The next meeting is January 2014 in the United Arab Emirates.
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