Parliamentary energy networks


Listening to a presentation at the Guyana Hearing in March 2009

Talking to a villager on a field trip in Vanuatu in November 2009

Exchanging views over lunch in Copenhagen in Dec 2009

The Climate Parliament is currently building networks of legislators across the world who embrace our vision of cross-border collaboration in support of renewable energy and smart supergrids. For example:

  • We have an active Climate Parliament Group in the European Parliament with members from all major party groups, and we are building a regional network of legislators to promote the construction of a clean energy supergrid spanning Europe and the Mediterranean. In this work we are being guided by Roadmap 2050, published by the European Climate Foundation.
  • Through a series of international Parliamentary hearings, we are building up a network of MPs across sub-Saharan Africa who are committed to harnessing the region’s vast renewable energy resources.
  • A Renewable Energy Group has formed in the Indian Parliament to promote the development of solar, wind, hydro and biomass energy both at a large scale and at the village level.
  • We have convened MPs from the world’s small island states to consider how they can lead the way on the shift to renewables. Groups from the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean have already appointed members to act as coordinators.

Any democratic national or state legislator from anywhere in the world, and any political party, is welcome to participate in the Climate Parliament because elected legislators are the one group of people who have in their hands all the levers we need to solve the climate problem. MPs make the laws and vote on the budgets. The Climate Parliament is helping concerned legislators to act.

There are no membership fees. If you sign up to be kept informed, you will receive Parliamentary Toolkits and other information materials on climate and energy, to assist you in taking policy initiatives in your own Parliament if you wish to do so. Regular email updates will tell others about what you are doing, and let you know what others are doing. Interested citizens are also welcome to sign up to stay in touch.


 


European Union
Oxfam Novib
Stiftung-drittes-millennium
United Nations Development Programme
The Environmental Defense Fund
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency