The Rio summit, an opportunity for renewable energy?

June 2012
byPierre Radanne et Emmanuel Guérin

At the end of June 2012, Rio will be hosting the next Earth Summit, the world’s ten-yearly meeting on sustainable development. In December 2011, Durban, South Africa, hosted the annual conference of the countries that have signed the UN convention on climate change agreed at the 1992 Earth Summit. Pierre Radanne, Chairman of Futur Facteur 4 and Emmanuel Guérin, Program Director at IDDRI (Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations) take a look back at this event and tell us whether renewable energy can emerge as a winner.

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  • Benoît Buffard

    Wind engineer at FUTUREN France since October 2011. He graduated in Statistics Engineering with the ENSAI school of statistics (École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information) and holds a Master's Degree specialized in "Renewable energies and their production systems" with the ENSAM engineering school (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers).

  • Baptiste Ruille

    Wind engineer. Masters degree in Environmental Engineering with major in meteorology.

  • Pierre Radanne and Emmanuel Guérin

    Pierre Radanne is an expert in energy and ecology, specialized in energy policies addressing climate change issues.  Emmanuel Guérin is Program Director at IDDRI (Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations).

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