EU WIND MEETS KYOTO

Wind power meeting Kyoto commitments while climate negotiations stall
11 April 2011 (European Wind Energy Association)

"While UN climate negotiations show no sign of significant progress, calculations from the European Wind Energy Association show that wind energy is achieving over a quarter of the emissions reductions required under the current Kyoto agreement.

"The [recent] UN climate negotiations in Bangkok… ‘produced little more than the agenda for further negotiations’ according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA)…[Negotiations ignored] the key issue of how the international community will achieve the CO2 emissions reductions needed…"

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"…[Though there is] an impasse in the negotiations, many countries around the globe are…[cuttting emissions] by installing wind energy and other [New Energies]…EWEA calculations show that at the end of 2010, wind energy across the world avoided 255 Mt of CO2, equivalent to 26% of the emissions reductions commitment of industrialised countries under the Kyoto Protocol.

"By 2020, wind power should avoid between 46% and 69% of the pledges made in the Cancun agreement, depending on whether pledges are met to the full or the minimum."