Energy effectiveness to become a priority at G8 summit

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Obviously, energy effectiveness and alternative energy sources will take a considerable place in St. Petersburg G8 summit’s final communiqué, Greenpeace Russia Director Sergey Tsyplyonkov is quoted by REGNUM correspondent as saying on May 31 at a press conference in Moscow. “However, alternative power industry will hardly receive there the priority status that we would like it to have,” he remarked.

Obviously, energy effectiveness and alternative energy sources will take a considerable place in St. Petersburg G8 summit’s final communiqué, Greenpeace Russia Director Sergey Tsyplyonkov is quoted by REGNUM correspondent as saying on May 31 at a press conference in Moscow. “However, alternative power industry will hardly receive there the priority status that we would like it to have,” he remarked.

As WWF Russia Director Igor Chestin stressed, the 2005 Glen Eagle summit demonstrated a rather successful example of such cooperation. Then, the final communiqué on illegal forest felling announced by G-8 ministers was virtually based on the document previously developed by NGOs. As for the coming summit of 2006, energy effectiveness became a priority of its final communiqué on energy security. It especially important since in the initial document draft, guarantying carbohydrates’ supplies and consuming stability, as well as accelerated development of the atomic power industry had been defined as priorities. “It is a certain victory of the civil participation in the process,” Chestin stressed.