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Climate change, renewable energy, the EU and the world
wide context
Lutz Ribbe (Euronatur),Member of the Economic and Social Committee
Round Table EU-Brasil July 2009
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The 10 biggest CO2-producer (2005)(in million tons – from energy sources: gas, oil, coal)
438 502 532 611880 982
1406
2532
5327
6526
France
Italy
Canad
a* UK
Germ
any
India
*
Japan
Russi
a
China
USA
responsible for 2/3 of the global CO2-Emission coming from energy use
*= 2002 source: iwr
use of energy = 80% of GHG sources
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The 10 biggest CO2-producer (2005)(in million tons – from energy sources: gas, oil, coal)
438 502 532 611880 982
1406
2532
5327
6526Red = G8-member states (so called `developed countries`)
G8 (13% of global population) responsible for appr. 45% of the global CO2 Emission
USA: more than 22%
*= 2002, source: iwr
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CO2- Emission (tons/ per capita + year)
1,0
3,0
4,4
7,58,0
10,2 10,4
16,718,0
19,7
0,0
1,0
2,0
3,0
4,0
5,0
6,0
7,0
8,0
9,0
10,0
11,0
12,0
13,0
14,0
15,0
16,0
17,0
18,0
19,0
20,0
21,0
India
China
World
Polan
d
EU (25)
Germ
any
Russi
a
Canad
a
Austra
l.USA
More than 2 to = unsustainable!!!
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another source: land use (and change)
20% of GHG emission worldwide
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unsustainable too!!!
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land use change …
- Indonesia: still 80 Mio ha of rainforest, every year they cut 2 Mio ha ( 600 Mio t of CO2)(=UK)
- Amazonas: 50% or more of the rainforest might be destroyed by 2030 ( 96 bln t of CO2)
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… good for our climate?
- Deforestation/ overuse is happening in many other countries too very unsustainable way of using land who makes profit? positive regional development? environmental damage (forest protects against flood)
EESC opinion adopted in June 2009
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Consequences
• dramatic economic consequences, for the global but also local economy (f.e. private farmers) (see Stern report, costs: up to 20% of our GDP)
• People will be directly effected:– many different health problems (see WHO)
– hurricanes: more often and stronger– floods (more heavy rainfall, deforestation)
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a kind of „summary“
1. the developed countries are mainly responsible for the GHG emissions, directly or indirectly
2. but: poor people are suffering most!3. we are at the beginning of new
competition in land use between food, feed and energy/ biofuel production (and biodiversity) (different critical opinions prepared and adopted by the EESC = role of civil society)
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Decisions of the EU-summit
• CO2 reduction (EU-summit, march 2007):
• -30% until 2020, if other industrialized countries contribute in the same way
• “guaranteed”: -20% until 2020• -60 to -80% until 2050 (basis: 1990)
• ambitious goals! Commission: a new
„industrial revolution“
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CO2- emission (tons/ per capita) 200510,2
8,0
0,0
1,0
2,0
3,0
4,0
5,0
6,0
7,0
8,0
9,0
10,0
11,0
Germanytoday
EU today
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2020: EU goal - 30%, Germany - 40%10,2
6,1
8,0
5,6
0,0
1,0
2,0
3,0
4,0
5,0
6,0
7,0
8,0
9,0
10,0
11,0
Germanytoday
Germany 2020 EU today EU 2020
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2050: goal - 60%10,2
6,1
4,1
8,0
5,6
3,2
0,0
1,0
2,0
3,0
4,0
5,0
6,0
7,0
8,0
9,0
10,0
11,0
Germanytoday
Germany 2020 Germany 2050 EU today EU 2020 EU 2050
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2050: goal - 80%10,2
6,1
2,1
8,0
5,6
1,6
0,0
1,0
2,0
3,0
4,0
5,0
6,0
7,0
8,0
9,0
10,0
11,0
Germanytoday
Germany 2020 Germany 2050 EU today EU 2020 EU 2050
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Energy package
• 20% of all energy coming from renewable sources (by 2020)
• Energy efficiency: +20% until 2020 1,5% each year: buildings, cars, products
• Transport policy (more railway)• 10% from renewables, not just biofuels (by
2020 + )
22Benediktbeuren, 30. April 2009 22
Bioethanol und Biodiesel
Brasil USA EU15
Biofuel-share2004 21,6 % 1,6 % 0,8 %
benötigte Fläche in % der Getreide-, Ölsaaten- & Zuckerfläche 2004
8 5 4
Biofuel goal 10 % 10 % 10 %
benötigte Fläche in % der Getreide-, Ölsaaten- & Zuckerfläche 2004
3 30 52
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37 m2 solar
10.000 km
2.062 m2 maize
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Climate change - just a technical problem?
• Reaching these ambitious goals is not a mere technical issue.
• It takes more than saving energy and technological solutions like solar/ renewables
• It is all about political power and markets; the idea is to „make money“
• Interest groups !
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Centralized/ De-centralized structures
• the age of fossil energy was/is the age of centralized, relatively inefficient energy production structures
large power plants with low efficiency rates (35 to 45%, residual heating)
very few global operating oil companiesnot many large energy suppliers, with
excellent access to decision makerin Germany: 4, in France: just 1
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50% of the energy of coal gets lost
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electricity to warm up water:
90% of the energy of coal gets lost
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unsustainable too!!!
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Centralised/De-centralised structures
• The age of regenerating energies becomes the age of de-centralized and efficient energy structures: Sun on the roof (Electricity and Heating)Combined Power and Heating Systems (with more than
90% energy efficiency, instead of 45% in the case of large power (coal/nuclear) plants)
De-centralized energy circuits using biomass
Consumer starts to be a producer ( + )
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Who will profit?
• new energy producers (consumers becomes producer), new market players
• new workplaces in the regions: energy saving techniques, short-distance supply networks, solar energy and local workforce, biomass/ -gas, including decentralized vegetable oil technologies
• but the old „large“ energy suppliers wish to maintain centralized structures; they live from them
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Project „Desertec“
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Access to cheap energy
• A crucial question for fighting against poverty !!!
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EU-India round table
• discussion on renewable energy and climate change
• practical example form daily life: how to cook?– today: cow dung, wood, kerosene
health problems for women, environmental damage
– tomorrow: electricity from big power plants?– or: cooker fired with vegetable oil from local
production?
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Plant Oil Stove - Protos
Facts and figures:
Power range: 1.6–3.8 kW
Usage: 2 - 6 liters oil per week for a family
of 4-5
→ 100 - 300 liters per year
Fuel: All plant oils, also used oils
(development with coconut-oil)
Efficiency: 35 – 48 %
Emissions: Ten times lower than with high quality kerosene
CO2-balance: Neutral
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Documentation of integrated project
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needed: vegetable oil
Strategy of de-centralization?– a sustainable vegetable oil production by
private farmer– as a new source for a new environmental
friendly, regional energy networks– in which a farmer can become a real player
in the economic chain
or
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vegetable oil/ biofuel
Strategy of centralized structure?– should the farmer just produce a cheap row
material? – or do we want to see not farmers, but an
“effective” industrial production by big companies
– just for export as a “bio”-fuel, to feed the cars all over the world?
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dezentralized oil-mill
Ölmühle Kramerbräuhof in Pfaffenhofen
Ölmühle Wöhrl in Galgenhofen / FFB
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Petrol station on a farm
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pure vegetable oil for tractors
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Pure vegetable oil for heating or cooling systems
100 kW el
120 kW th
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the role of civil society
• we have to start and to follow the discussion on the „new“ energy policy
• organize itself to counteract the lobby and self-interest of big multinational companies
without civil society the new energy age will not be possible
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… let´s explore new avenues!