World Environment Day

1. World Environment Day by Scott Sklar President, The Stella Group, Ltd. www.TheStellaGroupLtd.comwww.StellaCapitalLLC.com E-mail: solarsklar@aol.com at National Geographic, Grosvenor Auditorium Washington, DC. June 5, 2007 Scott Sklar is Chair of the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Energy Coalition and serves on the (non-profit) Boards of Directors of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, and the Renewable Energy Policy Project as well as S3dif, Bangalore, Boston.

2. GHG - SOURCES Figure 3: Sources of Anthropogenic GHG Emissions Waste Disposal 02% Residential & Commercial 12% Transportation 14% Agriculture 20% Electric Power 20% Industrial Processes 32% Sources: Distribution to sectors for CO2, CH4, and N2O is from EDGAR, 2000. All other GHGs are assumed to be from industrial processes.

3. Multiple Benefits: Local Picture • Distributed generation - near the users • Power quality - no surges, sags, transients • Power reliability - back-up - augmentation • Dedicated to uniquely high energy rates expressed in demand charges, peak power and ratchet rates • Lower noise, emissions, waste streams

4. ENERGY (r)evolution • January 2007 - Greenpeace/EREC commissioned DLR (German NASA) • Economically feasible to cut global CO2 by 50% within the next 43 years • Massive utilization of energy efficiency • Massive uptake in renewable energy in all areas - transp, bdgs, gen, indust, ag www.greenpeace.org

5. ASES Study (continued) CARBON OFFSET CONTRIBUTIONS (in MtC/yr in 2030) (based on middle range of carbon conversions) • Energy efficiency 688 • Concentrating solar power 63 • Photovoltaics 63 • Wind 181 • Biofuels 58 • Biomass 75 • Geothermal 83

6. Tackling Climate Change in US • NREL papers commissioned by ASES and the Sierra Club released in Feb 2007 • Ability to achieve emission cuts between 60 - 80% of current levels thru energy efficiency and renewable energy options • Two scenarios thru 2030 and 2050 www.ases.org - continued -

7. U.S. Renewable Electricity Generation in 2030 *Can provide baseload or near-baseload power

8. U.S. Carbon Emissions Displacement Potential from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by 2030 57% Energy Efficiency, 43% Renewables

10. "All companies have a duty to provide shareholders with more analysis and disclosure on climate risks and their strategies for managing or mitigating those risks," said Dr. Julie Fox Gorte, vice president and chief social investment strategist at Calvert.

11. IEA: GLOBALSOLAR WATER HEATING • 10 November 2004. The International Energy Agency’s Solar Heating and Cooling Programme and major solar thermal trade associations publish new statistics on the use of solar thermal energy. The new data – expressed for the first time in GWth, rather than in square meters of installed collector area – shows the global installed capacity to be 70 GWth (70.000 MWth). • "Now the solar thermal capacity should show up in all statistics alongside the capacities of other renewable energies", says ESTIF President Ole Pilgaard. "And seeing that the world wide capacity of solar thermal installations exceeds even that of wind power, people will realise that our technology can contribute tremendously to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to making the global energy supply more sustainable."

12. Biomass - BioFuels • Fort Collins, Colorado [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] 2007-04-11 Researchers at Colorado State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service have completed an analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from biofuel production. Study results revealed that when compared with the life cycle of gasoline and diesel, ethanol and biodiesel from corn and soybean rotations reduced greenhouse gas emission by nearly 40 percent, reed canarygrass by 85 percent, and switchgrass and hybrid poplar by 115 percent. • Hybrid poplar and switchgrass were found to offset the largest amounts of fossil fuels and therefore reduced emissions the most out of the studied crops. • Researchers were able to use life cycle analyses and the DAYCENT model to account for all of these factors as well as integrate climate, soil properties and land use to accurately evaluate the impact of bioenergy cropping systems on crop production, soil organic carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes. The study was published in the April 2007 issue of Ecological Applications. For Further Information National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) www.nrel.gov

13. PEW CLIMATE STUDY: US 2006 • Pew Center Study Addresses Global Climate Change • Washington, DC [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] 2006-02-22 In a report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a culmination of a two-year effort that articulates a pragmatic course of action across all areas of the economy, is the first comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. • NOTE: The report concludes that there is no single technology fix, no single policy instrument, and no single sector that can solve this problem on its own. Rather, a combination of technology investment and market development Among the many recommendations, in connection with area of energy and electricity, is a call: "Incentives and a nationwide platform to track and trade renewable energy credits are recommended to support increased renewable power."

14. Conclusions • Energy efficiency can negate emissions growth • Renewables can provide significant deep cuts in emissions • The world is blessed with abundant renewable resources spread throughout the globe - with decentralized applications having the greatest near term impact and larger, centralized applications having longer term benefits • Renewables can provide ~1/2 of global energy; remaining split about evenly among the renewable resources • EE and RE can begin today to tackle global warming • Continued R&D and policy support will help these technologies achieve their large future potential, tied to aggressive tax and tariff policies