PETER DROEGE

100% Renewable Energy is not Enough

Abstract

Fossil energy use, wanton pollution and resource abuse, all driven by short-term economics, have engineered the planet from the short-lived Holocene past the Anthropocene into the beginning of a new and chaotic Hothouse Age, within only a few short decades. Needed now is a reversal of that path in order to avert its tragic prospects, and restore the planet’s biological capacity to regaining ecosystem stability – in the interest of terrestrial habitability. Presented are ten critical points for this approach – as well as a new set of criteria for renewable energy, needed for the 21st century.

Biography

Professor Droege directs LISD, the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development. An inaugural member of the Zayed Future Energy Prize jury and Expert Commissioner at the World Future Council he served on the original Steering Committee of the Urban Climate Change Research Network at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the City University of New York. He has taught and researched at MIT, and held both the Endowed Chair in Urban Engineering at at Tokyo University’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, and the Chair of Urban Design at Sydney University. Prof. Droege served as first elected President of EUROSOLAR, the European Association for Renewable Energy and General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy. He has authored and/or edited eight major books and has published more than 80 articles.