Energy Links

The following organisations have been promoting energy policies which are consistent with the Climate Parliament approach:

Policy

The Futurepolicy.org website is an interactive online toolkit that we’ve produced jointly with the World Future Council.  Futurepolicy.org provides detailed information on how to draw up legislation for renewable energy feed-in tariffs, plus policy ideas on how to improve energy efficiency in your economy.

Emissions reduction and sustainability:

350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis. It is so named because scientists believe that we need to return the level of CO2 in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million in order to have any chance of fighting climate change.

The Carbon War Room’s unique approach focuses on bringing together successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, policy experts, researchers, and thought leaders to focus on market-driven solutions.

The European Climate Foundation have published Roadmap 2050 to provide a practical, independent and objective analysis of pathways to achieve a low-carbon economy in Europe, in line with the energy security, environmental and economic goals of the European Union.

Repower America advocates a transition to clean, renewable energy. The grass-roots movement, led by former Vice-President Al Gore, calls for clean energy and climate policies that will create millions of jobs, make us energy independent and solve the climate crisis.

The World Future Council focuses on the promotion of renewable energies as well as on a rapid transition to efficient energy production and energy consumption. Together with the Climate Parliament, they have developed On-LinePact.org: a site for legislators promoting the feed-in tariff law.


Supergrid:

The DESERTEC Industrial Initiative aims at creating the conditions for an accelerated implementation of the DESERTEC Concept in EUMENA (Europe, Middle East, North Africa). Solar thermal power plants in North Africa would generate electricity for export to Europe using a supergrid.

DESERTEC-Australia proposes that between 2010 and 2020 Australia sideline coal-fired output and replace it with natural gas power and renewables. This would create significant near term greenhouse gas reductions.

The DESERTEC-Asia plan involves connecting Asia through a 6,000-8,000 kilometer electricity and natural gas transmission system stretching from southern Australia to Japan and South Korea.

The Friends of the Supergrid is a group of companies and organisations in Europe with a mutual interest in promoting the policy agenda for a North European Wind Energy Supergrid.

Decentralised energy solutions:

The Ashden Awards champion practical, local energy solutions that cut carbon, protect the environment, reduce poverty and improve people’s lives.

The Hedon Network provides a net-based forum for practitioners, policy-makers, funders, and business-owners who are actively pursuing a cleaner, affordable and more efficient household energy sector.


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