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  Matthew  Rhodes

  Managing Director

  Encraft

  
  

  The rules of the game must change fundamentally within the next decade, with a strong focus on demand management technologies and shifts in patterns of consumption to more re-use and recycling. This will make it much easier to replace fossil fuels with renewables, because it will reduce all the absolute targets, and for this reason I would expect 60% or ... Read more | Leave a comment

  Posted on: 19th July 2010

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  Denis Tanguay

  President and CEO

  Canadian GeoExchange Coalition

  
  

  Answering the question “by how much should we expect renewable energy to replace fossil fuels over the next 20 years” is almost impossible. First, because specialists in both the energy and the environment sectors do not even agree on what the basic definitions of renewable energies are. In many cases, for example, large hydroelectric projects are not considered renewable. Yet, ... Read more | Leave a comment

  Posted on: 19th July 2010

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  David Hone

  Senior Climate Change Adviser Group CO2

  Shell International Petroleum Company

  
  

  It is useful to reflect on a specific national example when considering this issue. The USA provides an interesting case study. In his recent speech to the nation on energy issues, President Obama referred to the huge level of resource that the United States was able to muster as it turned its industrial capacity to the production of military equipment ... Read more | Leave a comment

  Posted on: 19th July 2010

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  Steve Bottomley

  Head of Business Analytics

  News International

  
  

  The answer should be as much as possible. However, it will be easier to deploy RE in some areas than others with the UK suited to wind and tide sources while southern Europe is better suited to solar collection. A key issue for much of Europe is how to break dependence on gas for space heating which forms a significant ... Read more | Leave a comment

  Posted on: 17th July 2010

Tags: Progress towards Sustainability