Why is Greenpeace Campaigning for Solar Power? Greenpeace is campaigning to introduce solutions, which over time will end the use of fossil fuels - the major cause of climate change. Solar electric panels can generate pollution-free electricity in our towns and cities. The handful of buildings in the UK currently using solar electricity could, with Government and industry support, become millions.
Greenpeace believes that given the environmental imperatives now facing all countries the stage is set for explosive growth in the market for solar electric power. Why is it still not happening?
Solar energy is a promise for the future. It is a clean and sustainable source of energy that can provide a significant share of our energy needs. It is not only from an environmental point of view that solar energy has a future: from an economic perspective prospects abound. Large multinationals such as Shell, BP and Siemens are focusing their efforts in the field of sustainable energy, most particularly on photovoltaic solar energy.
Residential, commercial and public sector electricity demand is responsible for about half of global electricity consumption. Solar energy can be a powerhouse behind our commercial and residential buildings even in colder climates. The integration of photovoltaics (PV) cells, which convert sunlight into electricity, into roofs and facades could turn buildings from net users of energy into net generators. Switching from fossil fuels to solar will make a major contribution in preventing dangerous levels of climate change.
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25 January 2000 at 9:00am -
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SANE BP is an umbrella group for BP investors who are concerned about climate change, and currently includes Greenpeace, the US Public Research Interest Group and many individual socially responsible investors. SANE BP offers intelligence, advice and encouragement to BP shareholders, large and small, who share our aim to move the company away from damaging oil exploration, and towards renewable energy.
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11 October 1999 at 8:00am -
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This afternoon the Government confirmed what we always thought to be
true that you can't trust what a Minister says. About five years ago a
Minister stated that the Habitats Directive would be applied up to 200
miles offshore in order to protect all whales and dolphins. And despite
the fact that this was said in a written statement to Parliament, the
Government QC claimed that he got it all wrong and that Greenpeace
couldn't rely on what he said.
