10 weeks to go to Copenhagen – Wind industry calls for substantial carbon cuts, Global Wind Energy Council
Release Date: 2009-09-28
Supporters of wind energy asked to show their endorsement by downloading the ‘wind turbine widget’Brussels, 28 September 2009. The global wind energy industry is urging world leaders to show their commitment to avert disastrous climate change, ahead of the global climate summit in Copenhagen in just ten weeks’ time.“We have the technology to transform the global energy system, and we can do so rapidly. That’s an important message for our leaders to hear so that they commit to making the cuts so desperately required, and we want it delivered in the strongest terms possible,” said Steve Sawyer, Secretary General of GWEC.
As the countdown to Copenhagen continues and fears grow that the Climate
Summit will not make the deep cuts in carbon emissions required, GWEC has launched a public awareness campaign called “Wind Power Works… Pass it on”, which aims to catalyze wide spread support for wind energy and call on policy makers to commit to significant carbon emissions reductions.
The campaign urges supporters all around the world to download a ‘wind turbine widget’ onto their computers to send a message to world leaders that they can make the deep cuts needed and still power the world.
These turbines will demonstrate how many homes can be powered and how much CO2 can be saved through wind energy. The more wind turbines downloaded, the stronger the call to world leaders to agree the reductions necessary to avert climate change and to make wind energy part of the solution.
Wind power is the only clean technology which is ready now and which can be immediately and rapidly deployed virtually anywhere in the world. It is already the fastest growing new generation source both in Europe and the US, and has the capacity to provide up to 12% of the world’s energy needs by 2020, saving over 10 billion tons of CO2 in the process.
The campaign wind turbine game can be downloaded at www.windpowerworks.net/passiton, which also houses a short video and campaign material. The campaign is also supported on Facebook and Twitter and encourages people to start their own virtual wind farms or join existing ones and to pass the idea on. All campaign material is available in English, French, Spanish and Chinese.
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| Company: | Global Wind Energy Council |
| Country: | Belgium |
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