MILLENNIUM CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT & CLEAN MOBILITY Geneva International Conference Centre 24-28 January 2000

Geneva Proclamation for Sustainable, Clean Energy

The CLEAN ENERGY 2000 Conference in Geneva, gathering representatives of UN Agencies, Governments, International Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, Universities, Industry, Financial Institutions and Media from over 100 countries,

considering the excessive depletion of mineral energy resources,

noting the growing world-wide concerns over the negative environmental impacts of energy production, conversion and usage, including air pollution, loss of bio-diversity, and the anthropogenic forcing of climate change,

recognizing that clean, renewable energies are increasingly competitive in economical terms with non-renewable energy resources, that renewable energies are capable of providing stable and sustainable energy for industrialized and developing countries during this century and greatly surpass the longer term availability of finite resources,

taking into account national resources and development priorities,

referring to the eight principles of the Global Energy Charter,

strongly recommends to the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development in its 9th session, to urge its members to:

introduce internationally harmonized legislation, where necessary, to curb pollution and the squandering of mineral energy resources, and to impose total costing of all energy systems,

accelerate the use of all types of renewable energy technologies in support of the Kyoto Protocol targets, by offering incentives and suitable measures to discourage the use of depleting and polluting energy sources,

improve the efficiency and rational end-use use of all existing and future energy systems, to promote them by incentives and rewards; to discourage or economically penalize inefficient systems by suitable legal and fiscal means,

introduce simultaneous and coordinated efficient energy technologies and renewable energy systems,

call upon countries to formulate targets for the introduction of non-polluting renewable energy technologies; and develop mechanisms to mobilize funds to implement the use of renewable energy and efficient energy technologies,

encourage national and international financial institutions and investors to give preference through suitable incentives to clean, sustainable energy systems and infrastructures, rather than to finite, polluting systems,

for rural and low income areas, encourage national and international financial institutions and investors to support the development and implementation of decentralized and stand-alone energy systems,

introduce advanced co-generation and efficiency improvements to the energy supply, transport and consumption by technical means, including energy-efficient architecture. Promoting education and information leading to more sensible human behaviour, avoiding wasteful energy consumption and fossil fuel-intensive activities, and by better energy management,

accelerate the implementation of an infrastructure for non-polluting hydrogen fuel from renewable energy sources, by providing appropriate incentives,

call upon countries, national and international agencies to implement or extend existing environmental monitoring systems (especially in the field of climate change and variability, air pollution, erosion, and water usage),

recommend to the United Nations General Assembly that the International Maritime Organization consider a ruling that all tankers in service must have compartments for cargo, double hulls and double bottoms.

Geneva, 2000-01-28

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