Programma delle attività EUROSOLAR
Dear friends We at EUROSOLAR Bonn and I wish you
all the very best - and please accept my personal THANK YOU for your
work, and, spoken personally, for being able to work with you. We have a lot to do this year, our 30th. I hope you will participate on our fantastic annversary program, in Bonn and in Berlin. Most
salient today is the historical recognition that ubiquitous renewable
energy for all and the complete displacement of all fossil and nuclear
energy sources are a necessary precondition for world peace. We can be optimistic in 2018: entire industries are in transformation this year. Take
the automobile sector: without its umbilical cord to fossil fuels there
are only counterincentives to continuing to rely on the combustion
engine, the switch can and will happen very quickly. Also,
we do not need a carbon tax - quite to the contrary; it slows us down,
as history has shown. Let's remove fossil and nuclear subsidies instead. And
the agricultural and forestry sectors have slowly begun to recognise
the need to improve their emissons profile: CO2 negative (adsorbing)
agricultural practice also improves the quality of food and soils - and
the harvesting and burning of woodchips and pellets is increasingly and
correctly seen as 'non-renewable' - our forests should be used not for
GHG emitting firewood processing, but for carbon sequestration,
biodiversity enhancement - and wood based building materials. Finally,
and critically for the evolution of our work: your continued and
growing presence across Europe will be most important for our success
towards 2020 and 2030. My best wishes for a healthy, peaceful, prosperous and renewable 2018.
Peter |