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Dec 2008
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Matthias Machnig, Deputy Environment Minister of Germany...




generating growth - page 4
... explains how his country's policies have lend to a dynamic expansion of electricity generation from renewable energy, strengthening its climate strategy.
Shyam Saran, a former Foreign Secretary of India, who is now the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Climate Change... ... describes his country's commitment to exploiting solar energy's potential and calls for a global programme to realise it worldwide.


mission possible - page 8
Yingling Liu, China Program Manager at the Worldwatch Institute...





China's new path - page 10
... describes the extraordinarily rapid growth of renewable energy in China and shows how it is an intensifying force behind the country's economic growth.
Michael Liebreich, CEO of New Energy Finance... .... describes and explains the extraordinary surge in investment in clean energy worldwide.




cleaning up - page 14
Senator Liz Thompson, a former Minister of Energy and Environment of Barbados...




regaining paradise - page 16
... describes the urgent need for renewable energy in Small Island Developing States and calls on the international community to help provide it.
Prof Ed Gallagher, Chairman of the UK Renewable Fuels Agency... ... describes how early enthusiasm for biofuels waned, and charts a way forward.





making biofuels sustainable - page 18
Lalita Ramdas, Board Chair ,
Greenpeace International ...





enough is enough - page 22
... calls for a carbon-free,
nuclear-free revolution.
Martin Roscheisen, CEO of Nanosolar, Inc... ... describes a green business boom in Silicon Valley and outlines what government must do to encourage and support such innovation.



green valley - page 24
Daniel M. Kammen, the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley... ... calls on the incoming U.S. president to launch a clean energy century.




innovation agenda - page 28
Australian actor Cate Blanchett ... ... is pioneering
"greenovation" at
home and work.




fragile - page 30
 
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