What is the relationship between WIREC 2008 and global efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions?
Renewable energy technologies play an important role in this administration’s strategy to respond to the challenges of climate change, energy security, and local air pollution. WIREC will provide a forum to discuss the linkages between energy and climate change and provide a menu of technological options on how greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced through expanded use of renewable energy. This administration has emphasized the need to get all clean energy technologies off the laboratory shelves and into the marketplace. WIREC will demonstrate how the United States is accomplishing this, as well as the successes of industry, other governments, and civil society from around the world. WIREC will play a major role in advancing on-the-ground implementation of renewables through the exchange of best practices and dissemination of a wide range of policy and financing options.
