Global Energy Strategy announced!!!

I've update this entry today with a correction to the reference for a new report on global energy. To clarify, the report was first brought to my attention by the friendly folk at Futerra (who do great work communicating sustianability messages, including this one!). The report itself was commissioned by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and was independently produced by scientists at DLR, the German Aerospace Centre, with help from academics and energy experts. Read more below:

The energy [r]evolution is an independently produced report that provides a practical blueprint for how to half global CO² emissions, while allowing for an increase in energy consumption by 2050. By dividing the world into 10 regions, with a global summary, it explains how existing energy technologies can be applied in more efficient ways. It demonstrates how a ‘business as usual’ scenario, based on IEA’s World Energy Outlook projections, is not an option for environmental, economic and security of supply reasons.

And more:

The decisions to put us on a path of renewables need to be made within the next few years to make way for stable 'smart' energy.A new report, energy [r]evolution: A Sustainable World Energy Outlook, sets out the 'smart' energy scenario, which halves global CO2 emissions by 2050, while phasing out dangerous and polluting fuels such as nuclear and coal and at the same time allowing for economic growth.

This is a joint report from the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and Greenpeace and has been commissioned from the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).

It has been endorsed by Dr RK Pachauri, the Chair of the agenda-setting Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and shows that a "business as usual" scenario, based on the IEA's World Energy Outlook projection, is not an option.

If we continue on the current energy path, worldwide CO2 emissions are set to almost double by 2050, leading to catastrophic climate change. But there is a plan. Under the energy [r]evolution scenario, annual CO2 emissions will decrease from 23,000 million tonnes in 2003 to 12,000
million tonnes in 2050.

The new 'smart' energy scenario sets out how renewable energy, which can provide at least 65% of the world's electricity and heat, combined with energy efficiencies of at least 50%, can provide for the projected increase in the world's energy demand, without hindering developing
economies such as India, China and South America.

Go to the report website - <http://www.energyblueprint.info/> - to read more and download the report.