More than 100 countries pledge to promote renewable energy
Participants from more than 100 countries concluded their discussions on Thursday at the three-day Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008), pledging to promote renewable energy. More than 2,800 delegates from 119 countries, along with nearly 3,000 other participants came to discuss ways their countries could develop renewable energy, promote sustainable development, and reduce greenhouse emissions.
The meeting launched the Washington International Action Program (WIAP). By the end of the conference, countries, sub-national authorities, private-sector and non-government organizations made more than 100 pledges of concrete ways to drive up renewable energy and enhance energy efficiency.
For example, Cape Verde was committed to increasing renewable sources of energy to 50 percent of market share by 2020, and to having one island running completely on renewable energy by that time. New Zealand also set an ambitious goal of producing 90 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2025, while the Council of the European Union volunteered to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 20 percent by 2020.
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