2007Feb1: Vaxjo, Sweden, receives a Sustainable Energy Europe Award 2007 for Fossil Fuel Free Vaxjo, a program initiated by the City of Växjö in 1996 to reduce human forces driving climate change. Between 1993 and 2005 the CO2 emissions from fossil fuels were reduced by 24% per inhabitant and market share of renewable energy is now over 50% (Vaxjo).
Reference: Vaxjo. http://www.vaxjo.se/vaxjo_templates/Page.aspx?id=1661
Connection to the 2007 IPCC Report on Mitigation of Climate Change, “Renewable energy generally has a positive effect on energy security, employment and on air quality. Given costs relative to other supply options, renewable electricity, which accounted for 18% of the electricity supply in 2005, can have a 30-35% share of the total electricity supply in 2030 at carbon prices up to 50 US$/tCO-eq” (IPCC, 2007). Climate Change 2007. Summary For Policymakers. Mitigation of Climate Change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III. Corresponding chapter title: 4.3, 4.4, 11.3, 11.6, 11.8. http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.htm#1
Image Description: Vaxjosjon is a lake in central Vaxjo, Sweden. The photo was taken by Lars Aronsson in 2006. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LA2-vx06-vaxjosjon2.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike 1.0 License.
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