Renewable Nations:
Human Capacity Building for the Global Transition to Renewable Energy

The Renewable Nations Consortium, sponsored by SolarQuest®, will operate as an internationally chartered non-governmental organization. Renewable Nations will recruit teams of international exchange students at Universities in Member Nations to engage productively in community service projects. The Renewable Nations team will:

• Develop regional and national systems models of energy options and environmental impacts as the foundations for policy formulation,
  
  
• Design policy for adoption at local, national and international levels,
  
  
• Incubate innovation centers for renewable energy and energy conservation (civic activities, NGOs, business start-ups, etc.), and
  
  
• Develop renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, built upon policies adopted through student initiatives, employing industrial capacities fostered within the innovation centers.

Membership
SolarQuest® is inviting nations to substantiate their commitment to the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy by joining the Renewable Nations. A meeting of Charter Members is scheduled to adopt a joint declaration and launch the international Green Earth Corps.

The Transition from Fossil Fuels to Renewables
The key recommendation of the IEA Alternative Policy Scenario is a transition to energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to replace fossil fuel-based electric power generation which accounts for 90% of targeted carbon emissions reduction....

Executive Summary [2007]

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Programs in the Galapagos

The Renewable Nations framework emerged from a project in the Galapagos Islands that operates under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. As a consequence of its Human Capacity Building project which began there in 2002, SolarQuest® established and operates GalapagoSolar, a solar energy development program on San Cristóbal Island.