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Rae, Peter. United we stand, divided we fall: influencing international and domestic renewable energy policy. 2005 SOLAR WORLD CONGRESS, 2005, Orlando, Flórida.
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Three decades of discussion, scientific research and development, and international negotiations have taken place in an effort to reach agreement on how to address the world?s greatest challenge - climate change. The recognition that humanity is not living within sustainable limits is dawning and initiatives are underway to address, with a unified voice, more sustainable ways of living. Paralleling these developments in climate change science and policy have been developments in renewable energy technologies for energy supply. Renewable energy sources: wind, hydro, solar, geothermal and biomass have been identified as contributing to reducing dependence on fossil fuels and cutting greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the energy sector. However, the renewable energy industry is small in comparison to the oil, gas and coal industries. As a relatively new industry it lacks political influence or indeed patronage to provide high level leverage in decision-making. The renewables industry is also very diverse, representing a wide range of technologies and interest groups. Sectoral interests need a voice, but when it comes to international, or domestic policy debates, fragmentation and a multiplicity of views, can obscure the key message, which is that the symphony of renewables has a valuable role to play. If renewables are to reach their potential, then fuel substitution will have to occur. However, evidence indicates that over the past 15 years the market share of renewable energy has decreased as has renewable energy research. Oppositely, the growth in energy supplies from thermal sources has continued to increase. A change in this global practice is only likely to result from a global crisis. That crisis is here and demonstrated by global warming. The key challenge lies in unifying the individual parts of the renewables industry in their efforts to successfully grow the renewable energy industry internationally. Bringing about the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) vision of ?the
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