The "energy revolution 'from Greenpeace

Greenpeace International and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) have pergeñado an 'Energy Revolution' to show that there are ways to change the current energy model based on fossil fuels and the atom, to make a bet renewable able to downgrade drastically CO2 emissions and thereby contribute to the fight against climate change. It only remains, said the environmental organization, the "political will".

Designed by over forty specialists, the plan calls on governments around the world with a view to the event in Poznan (Poland) of the annual UN Conference on Climate Change, as of December 1. Although the session key to defining the future 'post Kyoto' from 2012, after the expiry of the term of the Protocol, will decide within a year in Copenhagen, the summit of Poznan measured the temperature of the 'willingness' to cut international CO2 emissions responsible for global warming.

Greenpeace hopes that Poland will ratify the EU commitment to reduce by 30 percent by 2020. "The planet can not withstand the current rate of emissions," he stressed Juan Lopez de Uralde, executive director of Greenpeace. In his view, "is mareando the partridge" and wasting time "precious" to encourage debate on a "false choice" as is "nuclear energy".

The study advocates a "revolution in the way we produce, distribute and consume energy," explained Jose Luis Garcia Ortega, head of campaigns for Greenpeace energy. The key would be the progressive abandonment of the energies' dirty 'and its gradual replacement by renewable sources, combined with an energy efficiency improvement and the application of new technologies. With these goal posts would ensure that emissions of greenhouse gases no longer grow in 2015 and 2050 were reduced by half with respect to 1990 levels, the base year of the Kyoto Protocol.



Only by improving energy efficiency and avoid waste, in 2020 the global savings in energy consumption equivalent to current Western Europe, and in 2050 would reduce global consumption by half. The annual fuel cost savings would amount to some 14 billion euros. If in 2030 renewables accounted for 50% of the world's energy could dispense with nuclear weapons. At that rate, at the end of this century, wind energy, solar, marine, biomass and so on. completed one hundred percent of demand. According to Greenpeace, with the technology currently available, "renewables could provide nearly six times the world's energy demand."