The fight against climate change and a tightening competition for energy sources pose global challenges for our energy supply. Germany has propagated renewable energy and energy efficiency as elements of its foreign energy policy in order to address these challenges. Two organizations are currently in the focus of attention: The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), founded at the end of January 2009 at German instigation, is currently in the setup-process. The Russian-German Energy Agency (RuDEA), aimed at improving the energy efficiency in Russia, is planned to launch in mid-July. The complementary strategies of IRENA and RuDEA were the topics of two expert discussions conducted by DGAP’s Foreign Energy Policy Program: Economies worldwide shall become independent of fossil energy sources by increasing the share of renewable energy and by raising energy efficiency. Additionally, these measures shall secure the supply of fossil energy sources during the decades of transition, especially with the relatively climate-friendly natural gas.
Germany’s popularity on rise in Arab world
Interview with Zoé Nautré
30.06.2009 | Common Ground News Service
Resume of the Czech EU presidency
Interview with Marie-Lena May
29.06.2009 | Český rozhlas (Czech Radio Station)
Integration of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic Community is inevitable
Preceding the visit of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his Polish counterpart to Kiev, Alexander Rahr, accompanied by former President of Poland Alexander Kwasniewski and other European politicians, has held talks with Ukraine’s leading presidential candidates on 16 – 17 June. (25.06.2009)
New Beginning in the relationship Russia to the USA
From 9 to 12 June, Alexander Rahr, accompanied by Eckart von Klaeden, MP, CDU, Horst Teltschik, and Professor Joachim Krause and by invitation of the Aspen Institute, has held talks with representatives of the new US-Administration and leading experts from think tanks in Washington, DC, regarding the re-launching of the US-Russia relationship. (25.06.2009)
On June 16, 2009, at the Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF), Dr. Josef Braml, Editor-in-Chief of DGAP’s “Yearbook on International Relations,” discussed the Yearbook’s recommendations for a “Sustainable Energy Security Policy” with HBF’s Chief Executive Ralf Fücks and the Green Party’s Deputy Chief Whip and top election candidate Jürgen Trittin. (16.06.2009)
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