{"id":1543,"date":"2007-10-24T21:21:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T19:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2007-10-25T20:19:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T18:19:02","slug":"about-renewable-energy-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"about renewable energy targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todays newspapers were full of mentioning yesterdays talk by Al Gore in Berlin.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe talk, given at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enbw.com\/content\/de\/impulse\/gesellschaft\/klimawandel-kongress-2007\/index.jsp;jsessionid=495FCE17EA88C02363C0ABB9030B1886.nbw05\">climate conference<\/a> which was organized by  <a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.enbw.com\/content\/en\/index.jsp\">enBW<\/a> &#8211; Germanys third largest energy supply company, was irritatingly not public, which stirred discussions and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djv.de\/SingleNews.20.0.html?&#038;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1116&#038;tx_ttnews[backPid]=18&#038;cHash=11222561c3\">protests.<\/a><br \/>\nI hope he could convince the about 300 participants at his talk to invest more in renewable energies and in particular not into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1526\">nuclear energies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe it makes sense to turn the eyes away from Berlin for a moment and instead have a look at Great Britain, where one had to find these news in the Guardian:<\/p>\n<p>(citation from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2007\/oct\/23\/renewableenergy.energy\">article<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ministers are planning a U-turn on Britain&#8217;s pledges to combat climate change that &#8220;effectively abolishes&#8221; its targets to rapidly expand the use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.<strong>&#8220;Leaked documents seen by the Guardian show that Gordon Brown will be advised today that the target Tony Blair signed up to this year for 20% of all European energy to come from renewable sources by 2020 is expensive and faces &#8220;severe practical difficulties&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the papers, John Hutton, the secretary of state for business, will tell Mr Brown that Britain should work with Poland and other governments sceptical about climate change to &#8220;help persuade&#8221; German chancellor Angela Merkel and others to set lower renewable targets, before binding commitments are framed in December.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The shift in stance is due to be discussed at full cabinet next week.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todays newspapers were full of mentioning yesterdays talk by Al Gore in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,25,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}