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Mijn zicht op waar we momenteel staan in de wereld is dat we bij het huidige aantal mensen en onze huidige manier van produceren en consumeren stevig in aanvaring komen met de grenzen van wat deze planeet kan leveren zonder cruciale evenwichten te verstoren. Dat laatste zijn we in feite al aan het doen. Daarom ligt er in feite een culturele opgave om een nieuwe manier van leven, een nieuwe cultuur te ontwikkelen, gebaseerd op een nieuwe generatie technologie. De essentie daarvan is dat we wat ik noem: leren leven uit de stroom en gaandeweg ophouden met leven uit voorraden. De mensheid moet zich (weer) plaatsen in het cyclische karakter van het leven. Het verder ontwikkelen en gebruiken van de inmiddels beschikbare duurzame energie-technologie is daarvoor essentieel, evenals recycling van materialen. Verder ben ik het zeer eens met het punt dat u maakt over localisering van economische processen. 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There are a lot of interesting facts, deep insights into the nearest future, it is very useful for me as a journalist and editor. I've seen, that You prepared Volume II "Action Plan 2008" in April - or I am wrong? If You have it, can You be so kind and send this Volume to me? I'm editor-in-chief of monthly magazine Fortuna Privata, it's young enough magazine, only two years published, oriented to business peoples and to managers, so I think problems You analyse are very actual and interesting to them. Before I was editor-in-chief of weekly newsmagazine Veidas for seven years. That's about me, I would be very thankfull if You would send, if possible, Your newest researches in this energy field. (Liudvikas Gadeikis, Editor in Chief, Weekly Veidas, Vilnius, Latvia) Thank you. (Prof. Alhajji, College of Business Administration, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, USA) Thank you. Very interesting analysis. 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(Dr. Alaster Samkange, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Een zeer indrukwekkende verhaal. (Aafko Schanssema, Association of European Plastic Manufacturers, Brussels, Belgium) Thanks you for free education you have given to me. It has been send to as many of my friends as possible. (Justinus Setshedi, Chairperson, Parole Board, Zonderwater Management Area, Department of Correctional Services, South Africa) Thank you for sending me the draft publication of the Global Resources Analysis 2008. I find it useful for both research and teaching. (Dr. Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah, Sunyani Polytechnic, Sunyani, Brong Ahafo, Ghana) Thank you very much for send me the copy of Global Resources Analysis, I will read it with attention, I am the Technical Director of the National Water Commission in México and a university professor, and the copy will be very important for me. (Prof. Felipe Ignacio Arreguín Cortés, Sub Director for Mexico’s National Water Commission, Morelos, Professor at National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico) Thanks for your interesting Analysis. I will circulate it! (Juan F. Gallardo Lancho, University of Salamanca, Senior Scientist -Investigador Científico- of the Spanish C.S.I.C, Salamanca, Spain) I would like to thank you for sending to me the report Global Resources Analysis 2008. (Dr. Saxhide Mustafa, Deputy Executive Director, Riinvest Institute for Development Research, Prishtina, Kosova) Thank you for forwarding me very interesting Report. I've announced about it on the WWW site of our Institute. (Dr. Saulius Maskeliunas, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania) I would like to thank you very much for sending these excellent analyses. Thank you very much. Looking forward to our further cooperation. (Muhamet Mustafa, Chairman, Riinvest Institute for Development Research, Prishtina, Kosova) I do concur with your sentiments. As an official who works in the municipal environment, renewal energy resources are of particular concern because of the electricity cuts imposed by ESKOM, the national electricity supplier. My work involves interacting with potential developers who are interested in developing major housing schemes within the municipality, but who are currently constrained because of the lack of capacity within the municipality to meet their electricity requirements. They are being advised to investigate alternative energy resources and prepare more energy efficient layouts and house designs. (Perhaps that is not a bad thing taking into account the proposed cost increases for electricity which ESKOM is currently debating in public fora). I have forwarded your e-mail and attachment to the Strategic Executive Manager who is in charge of Infrastructure, Facilities and Services (including electricity) within this municipality, for his information. His name is Mr. Mashoko. (Val Spearman, Senior Project Manager Housing, Government South Africa) Thank You for sending your report. I have downloaded it and will carefully read it and keep in touch with you. (Dr. Nguyen Van Vuong, Institute of Materials Science, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam) It was good to meet you in Kobe. We had a good conversation and we are certainly interested in collaborating with you in the area financing for climate change, including the organization of a side event in Bonn From our part. Carolina Fuentes will be attending the Bonn meeting and you can count on her for support and participation. I wish you success in this important event. 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Those who wrote this important report should be congratulated. It gives us on insight, not only in the existing situation affecting the world, but presents scenarios and recommendations for the future. This report should be read by policy makers around the world, and I promise that economic and political think tanks in Egypt will be aware of it. May I invite you to write a four page article on the report which will be published by the Egyptian" Economist" Magazine. Once again many thanks and hope to see you in Cairo soon. (Ambassador Ahmed Haggag, Secretary General of African Society, Cairo, Egypt) Thank you very much. (Leszek Kuk, Poland) Thanks. I am concerned with this issue. Thank you for your report. (Eugenio Vega Pindado, Author, Spain) Thank you. This does look interesting. (Martin Wolf, Financial Times, London, UK) Thank you so much. The Global Resources Analysis 2008 is a valuable and comprenhensible tool for decision making and a better understanding of the interwined factors in the situation as a whole. (Roberto Escalante, Viceminister of the Environment and Natural Resources, El Salvador) Thank you very much for GRA 2008. (Vladimir Baar, Assoc. Professor, Head of the Department of Human Geography and Regional Development University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia) Thanks. (Allan Wentzel, founder and CEO of the African Bank, South Africa) Thank you for the download links, the result looks good and makes it easier for distribution, both to contacts and to email lists. With thanks again and best wishes for your continuing work. (Ilan Kelman, UK) We will read the Analysis. (Antonia Koperdanova, Program manager, Central European Foundation, Slovakia) It is a pleasure, thank you. May God bless you. (Regina Mandere, World Vision International, Malawi) Thank you. (Vjacheslav Vasin, Latvia) Thank you for sending me a copy of the Global resource Analysis 2008. I'm delighted at having the opportunity to be kept abreast of the current development in global resources. Excuse me for asking, but can you help me recall where me met. Did you get my address from somebody else? I'm very grateful of your effort to keeping me updated and that's the reason why I ask. I'm looking forward to reading from you. (Saliou Kane, Programkonsulent, Fredskorpset, Norway) I thank you very much for the publication that you sent me and for the possibility to contribute my comments and notes as well. Right now my working situation does not allow me to read it properly, however I am passing it to my colleagues with the purpose of detailed reading. After a brief look, I evaluate the book as very interesting and offering precise information. I thank you again and if I have any commentaries after I read the book I will be very glad to send them. (Prof. Eva Cihelkova, University of Economics, Prague, Czechia) Many thanks. Please be sure to keep me on your circulation list. I am living in Europe, Zurich and Montpellier, and also spend around 6 months per year in Singapore, at the National University of Singapore, (NUS) as Adjunct Assoc. Professor for business sustainability by new product /service development. Clearly a lot of new products/services are more and more "energy related". I am also in touch with the Energy Studies Institute of NUS and will likely be doing investigations e.g. about the growth of nuclear power in South East Asia - having spent many years in the nulear power business myself. However, sadly, talking informally to several well-informed people, is seems the fatalistic view is growing that "we are too late to avoid very great difficulties in the future, and the "politics" will prevent the fast and effective remedial actions needed . . " - rather like the observations in your e-mail message . . . Personally, I think that in all the discussions, planning and policy-making, one area is not receiving as much attention as needed to exploit the the easy opportunity quick wins available: i.e. reducing waste, of all types, and some obvious means of reducing the need for energy - and so reducing consumption. I will need some days to study your report - then I will come back to you with some feedback. (Dr. John Arthur Bauly, National Univerity of Singapore, Singapore) Thanks for the report. This problem is much bigger than you wrote. Anyway good to hear people are fighting for a better world. (Anna Horvath, political scientist, Hungary) Thank you for your e-mail with the copy of Global Resources Analysis. It is really a very good report and I am sure that this publication will be a good teaching aid for our students. I would be very grateful, if there is an opportunity to send us one of the printed publications by official way to add it in our academic library, in English ( or in Slovak - if it is translated). Also, I would like to know if there is a possibility for our Centre for renewable resources and low-power technologies to take part in your next projects and which conditions our University has to meet for the cooperation with you. Our university would like to have the copyrights for own printed material, because when it is in Slovak language, it will be more available for our study programme Enviroment and Regional Development, so I would like to ask you for more information how to get the copyrights. (Ing. Heidy Schwarczová, University of Central Europe, Skalica, Slovakia) Thank you for sharing the attached report. It arrives to me at a good time as my firm, Pacific Bamboo Resources (PBR), continues to advance on projects which I gather correspond with themes / issues / opportunities represented in your text. I will certainly give your draft report a read and share it with colleagues and students. Thank you again. Please do keep in touch. (Jonathan Scherch, Antioch University Seattle, WA, USA) Thanks. (John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA) Thank you for the Report. I will read through it and come back to you if I have comments. Good luck for all! (Erita Narhetali, Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw, Poland) I published on my blog: http://finalmentelibero.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1642982%3ABlogPost%3A8802 (Flavia Flavia Marzano, Bologna University, Italy) Thank you for bringing this report to my attention. The content and approach you are taking are certainly of interest to me, particularly the issues you raise concerning "peak oil". However, I am not capable of dealing with this document in the form of a (for me) very large computer file. At present I am on a short-term appointment in the Division of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo in Kashiwanoha. This means I am using borrowed e-mail facilities to remotely access my MIT account. I do not send e-mails to anyone with such a large attachment, and I do not know how to put anything on the web. Since I am just finishing things up prior to my return to MIT next week, I will not have the time to read through this material until after I return. Therefore may I please ask you to mail a printed copy. This should reach my office by the time I am back there and I look forward to reading the report and getting back to you with comments and questions later in the summer. Thank you for thinking of sending this to me and for accommodating my technological limitations. (Prof. J.I. Steinfeld, M.I.T. Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.) Thank you to send me this document. It will be very useful for my work and my life. (Eduardo O. de Aspuru Gutiérrez, Coordinador de la Comisión Ambiental de Jesús Obrero Institutu Politeknikoa, Presentador de The Climate Project Spain, Spain) Thank you very much for this valuable document, which will be of the upmost importance for my organization, as we deal with environmental infrastructure projects along the US – Mexico Border, and energy has become one of the most important issues in the region. (Dr. Alberto Ramírez López, Environmental Projects Manager / Gerente de Proyectos Ambientales, BECC/COCEF, El Pasa, Texas, US, Chihuahua, Mexico) Thanks for the report. It sounds quite interesting and I will endeavour to read it. (Anyong, North Korea) Thank you very much for the valuable document. I will read it really carefully while it is coming at the very right moment. Of course, I will distribute the document as wide as possible. (Fedor Cerne, Governmental Office for EU Affairs, Slovenia) With many thanks for producing your report, for kindly distributing it including to me, and for making it completely open access. Such initiatives are commendable to continue promoting these messages to the widest audience possible on their own terms. Please accept my apologies that I will not be able to send detailed comments on the 176-page report, but I do appreciate your efforts to highlight these messages which help to counter the dominant and usually wrong approaches and ideas which pervade our media and which influence people in their day-to-day actions and their election-to-election voting. I can say, though, that what would assist me the most in distributing the report would actually be a smaller file rather than a higher-resolution version. Many people whom I deal with have intermittent or slow internet connections, so I try to keep most attachments to under 500 kb--and even that is large by some standards. Given the length, detail, and needed images in your report, I would fully understand if providing such a version would not be feasible, but if I would be permitted, perhaps I could suggest a smaller document, a text-only version, or an only-essential-images version for the future. With thanks again for your work and initiative and with best wishes for its continuation, (Ilan Kelman, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway) The European Academy of Sciences and Arts wishes to explore if there is an opportunity for mutually beneficial co-operation in the context of the “Budapest Round Table 2008”. The project falls under the auspices of socio-economic research. Each year, one research field is chosen to be brought together at an annual event to exchange best practice and results. The project is highlighted in the attachment. This year the focus is on “inter-cultural business dialogue” in the global environment where actors are increasingly interlinked and mutually dependent economically. Specific attention is being paid to the relations between Europe, the People's Republic of China, and India. Knowledge of and experience with each other’s culture, language and business traditions are necessary preconditions for mutually beneficial interaction. Erhard Buzek, former Vice Counsellor of Austria and Prof. Goverdhan Mehta from India will moderate the round-table that will take place on 6th – 7th November 2008 in Budapest at the premises of either the Hungarian Academy of Sciences or the National Parliament. About 36 individuals –business people, researchers, educators, etc– will be invited from Europe, the People's Republic of China, and India. In addition, the audience will include invited individuals (students, press, etc.). The discussions and the outcome will become part of multi-media material that will be distributed internationally (Europe, the People's Republic of China, India) and give ample opportunity for company profiling. We are looking forward to your response. Sincerely Yours, (Dr. Gilbert Fayl, Secretary of External Affairs, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Brussels, Belgium) Thank you for your interesting report. I will read it and send you my comments as soon as possible. (Roberto, Honduras) Many thanks for your report, which I have to read completely, but your precis says what I have been trying to tell everybody for sometime. As you say, they are on denial. I shall send to as many as possible. I have given talk on CSP!! (Peter Foreman) Thank you. The information you sent is very much important. Thank you once again. (TLeane M.J, Limpopo Office of the Premier, Transversal HRD and Planning, South Africa) Thank you very much for sending me over the Global Resources Analysis 2008. I would like to read the abstract – if you allow. Maybe I can use some of the information in this report to tell my students in one of my lectures. Thank you very much! (Dr. Phil. Dirk Jungels, Technical University Munich, Faculty of Sport Science, Institute for Sports, Media and Communication, Munich, Germany) Thanks, will peruse through the report. (Rufus, Amos Murerwa, Family Health Options Kenya, Kenya) Thank you very much. It is really very interesting information. (Juhan Särgava, Saidafarm, Estonia) A tiempo de agradecer su comunicacion, deso consultar si es posible que se la haga en español, estare a tento a su respuesta. (Elias Clavijo, Gobierno Municipal H. concejo SCZ, Bolivia) I received the mail and I thank you for this information. Now I'm in Johannesbourg In South Africa and I'll come back to my contries week. I'll reply to you. (Christophe, GROUPE Béatitudes) Most impressive piece of work! If I may, inspirational. I will share with the colleagues. I also checked the site of growindus: have you any engagement at present on the food shortage crisis? Best and thanks a million. (Pasquale Lupoli, Head of Operations Support, International Organization for Migration, IOM, Geneva, Switzerland) Thank you very much. (Ricardo Jordan, Economic Affairs Officer, Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile) I have a book where Slovenian scientist dr. Viljem Rupnik made with mathematical formulas the proof that domination of capital is a trap for human race. It is scientific on very high level and maybe you should add his mathematical proof with explanation in Global resources Analysis. Dr. Viljem Rupnik is international known scientist –see his references in attachment. I will forward this to him. I hope on his positive reaction. I am happy maybe I did something useful because sometimes looks the situation here so hopeless. What are you going to do when this analyse will be finished? Who is paying for the analyse? I had a short conversation with Dr. Rupnik and he seems to be interested in collaboration with you. I think you should contact him first. (Barbara Trunkelj, Kmetijsko Gozdarska Zbornica Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenia) Herzlichen Dank und Congratulation für die ausgezeichnete Globale Resourcen Ananlyse. (Uwe Moeller, Club of Rome, Germany) Thank you very much indeed for the Analysis. There are things to think about. As far as the Ukrainian context is concerned there are too many simplifications there. What I would like to stress is that our relations with Russia are much more complex then the Analysis describes. First of all, our Gas transport system is a single "entity" combining high pressure and distribution lines, which can not be separated. Meanwhile, we are not buying Russian gas as such but rather that of the Central Asian origin. That what drives our relations with Gasprom - they are responsible for the delivery of volumes contracted for us in, say, Turkmenistan to our boarder and this is certified at the entry point by customs documents. Non payment last October was not due to our inability to pay for it but rather because of a decision of Gasprom to cut 25% of that gas, saying that Turkmenistan undersupplied it, and immediately without any warning to replenish it with what they called Russian gas. But what was the price! They doubled it. At the same time Turkmenistan said that Russians were cheating - all contracted volumes for Ukraine had been taken by Gasprom. I hope that you are aware of an intermediary in this case - RosUkrEnergo. That was the core of our problem. It turned out that Russians intended to sell contracted gas for us at a double price! The problem popped up, when RosUkrEnergo refused to disclose all their docs related to these supplies. Moreover, Ukraine at that time had no need in that much gas as far as we consumed less and RosUkrEnergo had the right to export saved volumes. Do you feel the difference? They wanted us to pay double price for gas we did not ask for and export gas not consumed internally (our gas) at the European price. Regretfully, the transparency issue vs. Gasprom not touched upon in the Analysis at all. (Viacheslav Kniazhnytskyi, Counsellor Mission of Ukraine to the European Union, Belgium) Yesterday I participated at a conference of the SFEN (French Nuclear Society). (Yes, I have read the “Swindle”….) CO2 tax is a kind of a by-product of market liberalisation, at least for Europe and not the result of the “strong nuclear lobby”. I don’t see any strong nuclear lobby. Instead, what I see is a kind of a similar “how to kill any new technology”-type mechanism that was widely used by the oil-lobby. If you see the first wave of investment in renewable technology/research. Big oil companies also invested in renewable research companies, and when private-small investors also flowed into this area they just quit. Failure was pre-guaranteed. Now you may check private investors wish to enter again the same gamefield… Similar might still happen to nuclear as it is still too fragile. Yesterday it was presented that in EU markets NPPs produce electricity at marginal cost and why marginal costs are different for different countries. Marginal cost is much lower for nuclear countries than for non-nuclear ones. I don’t have the slide, but attach an excel file, where you can see correlation between nuclear share and electricity prices in the EU. This might be a kind of an input for your report. Regarding don’t hurry: World needs solutions now and not tomorrow. Lead times for new reactors are currently around 10 years. If don’t act now, politicians, decision-makers will look for short term solutions again, with long term (negative) consequences… I am just convinced in nuclear technology (well it is my personal problem…). (Pal Kovacs, OECD, Paris, France) Thank you so much for this information. Is extremely useful for us! I will check it out (Martha Delgadom, President of the Mexican Citizen Presence Organization, Advisor to the Presidency of the National Ecology Institute, President of the the Confederation of Environmentalist Groups, Special Commission for the General Management of Water, Mexico) Thanks for the report, I will try and read it and comment. You know I only recently joined the Claverton Group after years of Dave Andrews trying to lure me into the discussion. Why? I just knew it would be a very time consuming thing to do! Still, as you say, it is important. Anyway, you have certainly caught the zeitgeist with your report. I hope it is successful for you. (Mike Coulten, Energy Alert, Head of Strategy for the Energy Information Centre, UK) Thank you very much, I will circulate it for sure. (Prof. Emer. Dr. Matjaž Mulej, Faculty of Economics and Business, Video Lecturer, University of Maribor, Slovenia) As the replacement for Douglas I got that report and value it a lot. Could you please add me to the distribution for further publications and delete him since he left the company recently. (Carlheinz Bayer, Senior Emissions Compliance Engineer, BMW of North America LLC, USA) Thank you very much for the report. I am very interested and engaged in the area of global development including modelling. So I can and will contact you only on that plane. So I forwarded the Analysis to Professor Tomasz Heese, the Vice-Rector for Research and Cooperation with Industry which is responsible for research in our University. (Urszula Marchlewicz, Vice-Rectorat for Research and Cooperation with Industry, Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland) Thank you for your Global Resources Analysis. I don’t feel to be an expert in this field and evaluate it but at first sight it offers a lot of interesting information and ideas. The small problem is to find them as orientation in Analysis is complex. Maybe in a final version it will be easier. (Marian Hantak, Director, United Nations Trans-European North-South Motorway, Road and Bridge Research Institute, University Of Economics, Warsaw, Poland) Interesting! (Nico Grobler, Holland) Ik heb het boek doorgebladerd, het ziet er indrukwekkend uit, ik wens u er veel succes mee. (Prof. Dr. E.H. du Marchie van Voorthuysen, Directeur van de Stichting ter bevordering van Grootschalige Exploitatie van Zonne-Energie GEZEN, Partner van SOLAQ, Lid van Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation, Holland) I will share this very interesting report to my colleagues in the office. (Zhigang Weng, World Food Program) Thanks, will look at it! (Theo J van Vuuren, Executive Coordinator South Africa Operations Division, Development Bank of Southern Africa, South Africa) Thanks. Very interesting analysis. (Kamau, Oxfam International, UK) Thank you very much for sharing this report that full of analysis on the current situation and condition of most of aspects on available resources on the earth. Your analysis and prediction on the future situation are very useful though scaring since in many aspects are bleak. I will read more carefully and revert to you with my comments. Best regards, (Kusuma Adinugroho, United Nations Development Programme, Head of Peace Section CPRU, UNDP, Indonesia) I am just reading your e-mail and the opening part of the document and found it is interesting. Will spend my time to carefully read it. Many thanks to include me in the distribution list. (Titi Moektijasih, Liaison and Coordination Officer, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN, Jakarta, Indonesia) Thank you very much. Most interesting and alarming. I built my autonomous house 33 years ago. Everybody laughed. (Prof. Dieter Holm, Secretary of the International Solar Energy Society, ISES, Universiteit van Pretoria, South Africa) Thankx! All the best! (Dr. Jutta L. Mueller, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany) Vele dank. Ik stem heelhartig saam met deze siening van het situatie. Verskoon mij eenvoudige Hollands, ik zijn een Afrikaner en ik probeer maar die twee tale ooreenkom! Ik wil die inligting nogmaal bestudeerd en dan weer met u kommunikeer oor het onderwerp. Die feite op het grondvlak kom egter heel eenvoudig voor - soos u wel tereg het opgesommen doen. Minder, koste meer. Klaar. Met het wydverspreide politieke misverstande en populistiese grootgepraat daarbij. Meanwhile, governments are kicking their heels. Ik geloofd het wel dat de politiekes niet een antwoord hebt voor deze probleem. Finite world, finite resources, finite time...? Very interesting. I am the motoring editor and senior staff writer of the Cape Argus, a daily afternoon newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa. I have been with the paper 22 years. I have already written almost exactly what you had written about some months ago and I have also taken the same line in a story I wrote for SA Wildlife Magazine. Although I love cars (classic cars especially) I am also a realist. Yes, governments are all about power, but I do not agree that the answer lies with the average person. Especially not in South Africa, where politics are still determined along racial lines in a them and us scenario. If the average person had the power, where were the decent Germans in WWII? And don't tell me there weren't any decent Germans at the time (I know, they took your bicycles and you still call for it every time you play them at soccer, but that's another story). The more humanity is told how free it is, the more it behaves like a flock of sheep. People in democracies the world over have been lulled into a false sense of freedom and security. Look around you, they come and go the only way they know, sticking to the familiar and hoping somebody else will solve the problem. The science that brought us global warming, ozone depletion and the most efficient war machines ever, is now called upon to save our rear-ends. At the same time, the Greens are shouting out their completely unrealistic demands of so-called clean energy and renewable energy. But it is interesting to note how they always demand action from others while they sit on the side-lines and criticize. At the same time, they are often so ridiculous, they are like some churches - in stead of winning people to the cause they become an inoculation against their own message. The question to ask is: what IS the answer, after all the bluster and bragging. Or, IS there one? I will formulate an article on this and submit it for publication. But then I need to know a bit more about you and your organisation, how are you involved, why are you doing this and when and where the full global resources analysis will be available to the general public. Let me know soonest. (Henri Du Plessis, Journalist/Editor, South Africa) Thanks! I've passed it around to several other members of the editorial board, who are more apt than I am to write about resource-related issues. (Jon Healey, Editorial writer, Los Angeles Times, USA) I have read your summary and what you say seems to accord with my rather pessimistic view of the situation. Some people don't seem to realise that if energy prices drop as a result of industry or consumers not being able to pay for fuel or electrcity, this will effectively mean mass employement at best, and famine at worst. Part of the problem is that "organisations have no memory" and this includes Governments. (Fred Starr, chair of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, USA) Thank you so very much for the impressive project that you have undertaken and the brief introductory summary – which I liked (incl. your appropriately cynical observation of eliminating oil tax to stimulate consumption) – it is and we are in a mess, briefly put; I am equally concerned about the impending antitrade votes in US congress. Unfortunately, I am currently racing against a deadline with my own projects so that it is impossible – as tempting as it is, though – to enter into a discusasion of your important points with any depth or adequate analysis. Thanks so much for including me for your publications and I hope you will continue to keep me informed. (Hugo M. Kaufmann, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, Director, European Union Studies Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, www.euromatters, NY, USA) The draft report you sent me is a nice survey of the problem and I applaud your attention to solutions. I do not have the time to provide a detailed review at this time, for I have some bills to pay and other obligations I have undertaken. I apologize if some of my comments were addressed in parts of the report that I did not skim. I was not able to give this the attention it deserves. I think you could usefully add some discussion about integration of solutions. For example, because PV is most productive during periods of peak demand, it can reduce baseload requirements (which, except for peakers, tend to be run at constant levels 24/7 because it is so hard on equipment to change operating conditions, thereby causing the waste of massive amounts of fuel) and has the additional benefit of reducing distribution losses. If PV is combined with heat collection, the PV output will be increased, heat island effects reduced, and other combustion needs reduced. Even more integration might address what would a good, comprehensive national or local energy policy might require. Or how companies are going about reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. And the role of the insurance industry in furthering the cause. I like most of your photos, but I would take out the picture with the naked girl in the center. I think it is an ivasion of privacy that is not warranted. If you are ready to consider something bigger -- I would like to see a climate change conference or workshop that would use a technique called Breeder Net, developed by Arthur Gillman of Canada. Arthur is days away from finishing a product that will explain what I am writing about. You could include the results of such a conference or workshop in your report. The technique is capable of taking a modest (my understanding is that 5 to 20 is best, but Arthur can address this) number of people with remarkably different points of view and expertise and making it possible for them to map the way out of this mess in approximately 2 days. More amazing, afterwards the participants would be on friendly terms and would have insights deeper than they ever dreamed possible. You could propose action plans that would make your report highly valued by those who would like to change the direction in which humanity is currently moving. Best wishes in your endeavors. (Judy Kosovich, Capital Sun Group, Maryland, USA) Thanks for the report; very interesting… and worrying. I will circulate to interested colleagues. (Jeremy Harrison, Innovation Consultant, E.ON Engineering, Nottinghamshire, UK) I find your letter extremely useful and I am happy to forward it to some of my contacts. I also downloaded the Analysis itself, but I can’t promise that I can actively take part in any debate. (Edit Herczog, European Parlement, Brussels, Belgium) I am much obliged to you. (Fernando Nogueira, IFDR, IP – Instituto Financeiro para o Desenvolvimento Regional, Minister of the Parliamentary Affairs 1985-1987, Minister of Justice 1987-1990, Minister of National Defense 1990-1995, Presidency 1987-1995, Portugal) Thank you. I look forward to reading the report and hopefully writing a story - will also send you some comments, if possible. regards (Edwin Naidu, Senior Writer and Editor, Sunday Drive, The Sunday Independent, Johannesburg, South Africa) Thanks for this. I will invite you to the Claverton Energy Group. (Dave Andrews, Claverton Energy Group, UK) Thanks. (Xolani Dube, housing.gov.za, South Africa) Thank you for sharing this important docment with me. I will circulate it to my friends and at the appropriate time send you my coments. (Alfred K. Ofosu Ahenkorah, Executive Secretary, Energy Commission, Ministries Post Office, Accra, Ghana) I want to thank you sincerely for sharing such an important document. Since receiving already referred to as the consultation document. I give you a document which I think is also of interest. http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2007-2008/chapters/spanish. I hope to humanity that there is time to react to this global crisis, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" says Gabriel García Márquez. One suggestion, hopefully leaving soon in Spanish. (Luisz Olmedo Martinez, UNDP) Many thank! I really enjoyed talking to you. Let me know when you are in Austria, so we can show you round. (Christine Leitner, Head of Center for European Public Administration (CEPA), Danube University Krems, Programme Director European eGovernment Awards, Course Director MPA, Austria) Thank you very much for kindly sent me the "Global Resources Analysis 2008". I'll read it with interest. (Jorge Villarreal, Program Coordinator, Heinrich Boll Sitftung, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean's Regional Office, Mexico) I just visited your website. It is very impressive. I could not found an energy specialised section/group/direction. Do you plan to have one? As you mentioned in the report energy will be the power of the future. INDUS need to be prepared for that. Am I right? Thanks for the Russian site. First let me congratulate for your efforts in putting together the report. I study different expert visions on a regular basis. Prognoses of the IPCC, IEA, IAEA, WEO, EIA, WNA and the NIC on the near or long term future are all rather interesting and specialised in some way. Your report I found something different. Probably it is because I am an engineer, but I have an overall feeling that a strong factual basis (%s, numbers, shares, etc.) is missing beyond the argumentation. There are no numbers, no facts, only discussion and conclusion – a synthesis report. The discussion concludes in a misbalanced energy picture. The Science fiction for me is there are no timeframes indicated. One never knows if projections would be the near, mid-term, far or very far in the future. Probably the future will be misbalanced in favour of solar energy, however, the reader need to understand, how the authors arrived to such a conclusion. Presentation of factual data would improve the report largely, otherwise it will leave the reader in dark. However, I found lots of conclusions that I must agree with. But strong factual arguments are needed to support the statements. After the first read I have a bit mixed feelings about the report. Being involved in nuclear power generation I found it unfair forgetting nuclear energy. On the other hand I felt renewable (and especially solar energy) something overarching in the report. At a very-very long term the report might be right, but at short-mid-term I feel it to be limited. Do you really want to have something on nuclear energy? Or your sponsors are from the renewable industry, where the word “Nuclear” is still something forgettable? Regarding nuclear energy: Civilian use of nuclear power began with the opening of a few comparatively small (50 megawatts electric, or MWe) nuclear reactors in the mid-1950s. From that modest beginning the industry grew to 437 operating reactors with a generating capacity of over 371 GWe at the end of 2007, when nuclear power accounted for 16% of the world’s electricity output. In addition, 34 reactors with a total generating capacity of 28 343 MWe were under construction in 13 countries at the end of 2007. Almost 1/6th of electricity production worth mentioning… There are a lots of discussions on the future role of nuclear power generation. One might recognise, that nuclear power generation is almost zero CO2 emitter technology, the inherently safe new reactor generation does not need any RandD – it is already on the market, it is a cheap producer of energy, and a centralised large scale producer of energy. Applications of nuclear power are different: electricity production, heat production, water desalination, hydrogen generation and please don’t forget the medical applications, that demands much more resources globally than power generation. Some of the points are the same than for solar power… One of the most important advantage of nuclear power is its continuity. Production does not depend on the weather, the sunshine, etc. that makes nuclear power applicable for distant places, where no sun or no wind is in place. Once the IEA formulated that future energy mix should consider all applicable non-pollutive ways of energy production (“…both renewable power and nuclear energy must be a part of the energy mix…”), I am sure, that nuclear will play certain (or even important) role in the future. We at NEA made some estimations on the potential role that nuclear can play in parallel with renewable, and we came to the conclusion, that for the centralised way of energy distribution the input will be provided largely by renewable and nuclear power in some decades. If your report would discuss nuclear power as “part of the solution” the report would be more balanced. Further comments: I could not found as much on hydro power. What is the reason? When you conclude on page 106 that “Grid operators mostly will play a role in central water or energy storage solutions” hydro power considers both… Also I feel a bit missing the links between hydro power generators and the grid operators that are expected to play more important role in water economy. After the first reed it seems to me missing the share of centralised and decentralised ways of energy production. Just the reader could imagine the importance of each. The report leaves the reader unconvinced if any of them is preferred. When stating on page 9 that renewable energy will be cheaper than fossil energy and it will boost renewable energy generation, my experience is that the renewable energy today is not cheap, the first wave of huge capital investment is over without a real technological breakthrough (see the debate on renewables in the UK). Indication of the timeframes, separate discussion on solar, bio, wind, hydro, etc. and cost data (energy technology learning curves and their possible future evolution) would help readers… I am also not sure if environmentalists would easily allow “super sized windmill parks at sea…” (see the debate in the UK). It is common for renewable and for nuclear energy: large power capacities would need huge initial investments but it should not steer their penetration. IEA prognosis: IEA is our sister organisation at the OECD. The statement is true, however, the statement can be extended to all expert or non-expert organisations that are dealing with prognosis on the future based on analysing the past statistics. (As you note on page 97: “…Most analysts only make photos of the past…”) I completely agree with you: past data nowadays does not help prognose the future. Prices are rather driven by the market, and market is a set of expectations. Statistical assessment of past events and current macroeconomic models does not work now. New assessment methodologies are essential! On page 22: the world can handle global population growth… To what extent? Or to what time frame? I am not so optimistic as you. However, if you consider natural disasters and all effects of global warming you might be right, more and more people would die as a consequence of human activities: the globe regulates its population by itself… Page 24: the sun will shine and the wind will blow… When and where? Population of Northern countries suffer a lot from limited sunshine. Finland is going to use more nuclear. Sun and wind does not help them. Losses of transmission from Africa to Finland would be too high even with the improved transmission technologies… So: there are limits to your statement or there is not enough explanation in the report. Page 19: Common believe is not common knowledge… On the other hand: common expectation is more proper than any expert judgement… (and this drives current oil prices high and hectic). Regarding solar power please don’t forget possible future role of space applications that are missing from the report, however they might get more importance in the near future at least to provide light during dark time periods. If you mention protectionism today, one can imagine similar type protectionism in the future when “non-solar” countries will depend on “solar” ones. The same situation as for natural gas (Russia-Ukraine conflict). May I also ask, whom the report is addressed? Finally let me congratulate you again. Please understand well, I don’t want to change anything in the report as you were asking. I only tried to explain my very first feelings on the content and my comments are similar to those I receive from my “clients” on our vision and the soundness of its’ technical basis. I really don’t know what are the contributions behind the report, so please take my comments as critics from someone who does not know anything about the project. I apologise, if any of your intention not yet reflected in the report is touched by my comments. What I want is only to encourage you and your team to continue this work, and make as precise, correct and fair, as it could be. Please let me know if a new (draft) version is issued! (Pal Kovacs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, Paris, France) Well received. Will have a thorough look. Thanks, with kind regards! (Tu, Lance Jingtang, Asian Fixed Income Trader, Global Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, China) Thank you for this report copy. I will send it to partners and colleauges. I will send my comments late on. (Tiit Kask, University of Tartu, Estonia) Thank you so much. (Dr. Josaia Samuela, National Adviser for Family Health, Director of Public Health, Fiji) Thanks for sending this report. I will read it with great interest. (Justin Peters, Business Development Manager Skymeter Corporation, Council Executive Assistant at City of Toronto, Canada) I thank very much to you for this report. I would like more information in the future, but I prefer receive it in Spanish language because my English is not so good y I can read so slowly… Please, can you send me the publication in Spanish? I would thank you for advance. (Dr. Eduardo T. Peña Triviño, Vice President of Ecuador, Ecuador) Thank you, you are on point with your comments. We hope that the next national administration in cooperation with the world community will begin to make the hard non-politically expedient decisions that will protect the future for all the worlds children. (John DeFina, dep.state.nj.us, New Jersey, USA) The report certainly looks quite deep and interesting. I will certainly have a read and revert if I have any points that need clarification. (Sulaiman Moolla) Many thanks for forwarding this report. (Bill Ravanesi) Thank you very much for this thorough and interesting report. I'll come back to you with comments as soon as I can. (Dan Sava, Health Specialist, Extended Term Consultant, The World Bank Office, Romania) Thanks! (Henri Janssens, Regional Development Investment Corporation Eastern Holland, Oost NV, Holland) I thank you for the global resources analysis, I am sure it would be helpful in the Committee on the Climate Change. However, my name is Johana. Are you sure you intended to send it to me? (Johana Horakova, European Parliament, Secretariat of the Non-Attached Members, Strasbourg, France) I thank you very much for sending your report. I am impressed by the quality and I will distribute it to my networks. (Francis Allard, Université de La Rochelle, France) Thank you for your letter and provided information. (Dr. Tamás János Katona, Nuclear Power Plants, NPP, Hungary) Thank you very much. It's a very important to research and studies. (Pilar Samaniego de García, liceocampoverde.com) This is a quick thank you note for sending me the Global Resources Analysis. (Dr. Carlos Rodriguez - Franco, US Forest Service Research and Development Director Forest Management Sciences, Rosslyn, Virginia, USA) Thank you for sending us your Global Resources Analysis report. (Rebecca Vangenechten, Business Analyst, Brabo Ventures, Brussels, Belgium) Indrukwekkend rapport heb je gemaakt, ik heb weinig tijd om het helemaal te lezen (en werk in een andere tak van sport, namelijk mensenhandel) maar het ziet er goed uit!! (Bregje Blokhuis, Project Manager, La Strada International, Amsterdam, Holland) Thank you. (Sher Bahadur, Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S., Washington, USA) Thank you for this very interesting analysis. (Bernhard Labudek, Director International Co-operation, Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club, ADAC, Germany) Thanks for you letter. (Antonio, BBCC, Chile) Thanks a lot for the pack. (Mutuku Nguli, Chief Executive, Peace And Development Network Trust, peacenetkenya.org, Nairobi, Kenya) Thanks, sounds interesting and I will take a look at this document as soon as I can. I will be in touch. (Alexander Cheryomukhin, The Institute for Social Connections, Colorado, US and President Azerbaijan Psychological Association, Azerbaijan) Thanks. (Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye, Makerere University, Uganda) Thanks for information regarding Global Resources Analysis 2008. (Lekha Prasad Chaulagain, DRSP, DRILP, Lalitpur District, Nepal) The information is very resourceful even before I down load the document. I will read and circulate to contact lists we have here and get back to you with comments as well. (Laureta Madegwa, Caritas Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya) Thank you so much for your message, this is really sad news that the world will be food crisis neally infuture that is make poor people hart to live in this time, especial such as Cambodian people will be have big problem with food. We do not know what to do help them to solve this problem. I hope one day we will solution for that. Please keep intouch. (Phal Sophat, Executive Director, Battambang, Cambodia) Thank you very much for this document. It looks very interesting and extensive. (Prof. Chris Sorrell, School of Materials Sci. & Eng., University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) Thank you very much for your message with the attached copy of Global Resources Analysis. (Néstor M. Riaño, Agronomist PhD, Head Plant Physiology, Cenicafe-FNC, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia) Thank you very much!! (Dr. RoseEmma Mamaa Entsua-Mensah, Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana) I appreciate the document and form the summary so far it is very stunning, I will send my comments. (Garba Abdu, Nigeria/IIP/HPN usaid.gov) Many thanks for the draft report with the briefing on the report. I have not yet gone in detail with the report. However, I congratulate you on generating such a report in the critical time of crisis. The report is substantive and describes the problem dynamics. I will let you, if I could find any matter which could contribute substantially, when I finish going through the report. I am very glad that the report justifies the need of rapid harnessing the hydropower potential of Nepal (till now only around 1% of potential is harnessed). Thanking you. (Shashi Bhattarai, CEO, Development Dynamics Pvt. Ltd., Development Research Engineer, Integrated Consultants Nepal Pvt. Ltd. (ICON), General Secretary, IT Professional Forum, Nepal) Please send me the final version of your report. (Prof. Assen Jablensky, Director Graylands Hospital, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia) Many thanks for the useful document. It has very useful information in it. Many thanks, (Tahmina Niyazova, Media and Advocacy Officer, oxfam.org.uk, Oxfam GB, Dushanbe, Tajikistan) Thank you very much for the article and it is appreciated. 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(Steve Prey, Coordinator, Caltrans Energy Conservation Program, Vice Chair, Governor's Energy Policy Advisory Committee (EPAC) Member, National Transportation Research Board, Special Task Force on Energy and Climate Change, dot.ca.gov, California. USA) Thank You ; For To Send Me, This Important Information, We Know The Energy Crisis We Are Energy Electric Provider In California and We Have The Permit For To Export Electric Energy To Mexico Too, You Report, Is Very Important For Us For To Know .. What is The Best Way in The Future. Thank You Again (Ernesto Pallares, President, INTERCOM ENERGY INC, Chula Vista, California) Thanks for this good report. It will be interested if that report in Arabic. (Dr. Abdul Qawi Radman, AGM, Foreign Investment, Tadhamon International Islamic Bank, Yemen) Many thanks for this thoughtful report. SCOPE is in consultative status with UNECOSOC and accredited with UNEP, GEF, UNCSD, UNCCD, HABITAT and many other UN and international environmental conventions, committees and bodies. It is member of International Land Coalition (ILC), Environment Liaison Centre International (ELCI), Freshwater Action Network (FAN) and DRYNET. SCOPE is an active player in the implementation of UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and working in the drought affected drylands with local communities to manage natural resources. (Tanveer Arif, Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment, SCOPE, Karachi, Pakistan) Thanks for this enlightening document. I will sure share it with friends and colleagues. (Dr. Gorrettie Ssemakula, Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Prod. Research Institute, Kampala, Uganda) Thanks. Great document. Will peruse through this weekend. (Dr. Silas Obukosia, Agricultural Biotechnology Specialist, US AID, Nairobi, Kenya) Thanks for the document. Are you around UMU today? Did you manage to get the other funds you told me about? If yes, I can pick them before lunch. (Dr. Everd Maniple, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda) Thank you very much for this very informative analysis. I have circulated it to my colleagues at the University. I believe that it will increase our understanding of Global ecomics/development dynamics. It's a good analysis to updated knowledge on on-going changes in the world economic situation and development. (Dr. Charles Ssekyewa, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda) Thank you for the report. I already sent it in our networks and I hope people will be interested to read it. (Rodica Novac) Thank you for valuable analysis, I shall forward to my colleagues interesting in global problems. (Sandor Deme, KFKI, Atomic Energy Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) I think that review of Global Resources analysis is very wide and interesting. I shall disaminate it for environmental profesionals and deciding makers. Thank you for your job. (Sandra Krivmane, olainfarm.lv, Latvia) You raise vital issues. (Tehana F. Weeks, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) If you do not mind, could I have the copy of Volume III (Finance Model)? May be it could an input for my Boss for next Wednesday meeting on Financing for Energy. Thank you very much for your attention and cooperation. May be I just want you to add more about energy efficiency especially on technology and financing, it is related to CO2 emission reduction. Excuse me what do you mean by I see: Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources? I work for government office. I am so surprised for your e-mail and the attachment of Global Resources Analysis 2008 Vol. I (pre-publishing version), the information in it is very useful for us especially on energy. I am very interested in it, would you mind sending me the final version of Volume I, Volume II and Volume III. I will spread them among my colleagues internally, should I pay for the copyright? I hope you could give me free of charge. Thank you very much for all of these. (Devi Laksmi, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Indonesia) Thank you for sending a copy of the draft. I think it is a good document. But I will be able to add my input if I have a french translation. Is it possible? (René Abouo N'Guessan, Directeur Général CFCC, Association Interprofessionnelle des Systèmes, Financiers Décentralisés de Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast) Thanks for your information. I will read deeper before response to you. (Ms. Nining Purnamaningtyas, Ministry of Forestry, Jakarta, Indonesia) Thank you very much for this enlightening documents. (Dr. Francis Adatu, National TB Programme Manager, Uganda) Thank very much for the report which is very informative and revealing. Yes it is very interesting and I'm certain others will find it useful and for this I want to thank you again for letting me share this with other colleagues. (Maurice Mbolela, Executive Secretary, LGAZ, Local Government Association of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia) Thank you very much for the book, it is excellent issue and very useful for me and my students. We are looking forward to next volumes. (Prof. Dr. Jiri Hrebicek, Academy of Sciences prize 1985, Viktor Kaplan prize 1978, Member of WG 5.11 IFIP, Chairman of EnviroInfo 2005, Vice chairman ISESS 2007, Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Science and Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Many thanks for your sending me the excellent report! I appreciate your analysis. (Yuanhua Hua Li, National Center of Irrigation and Drainage Development, Beijing, China) Seems like a great work. I want to go through it before commenting anything. Thank you. (Dr. Vilas Manohar Upadhyay, Water Engineer, Mangalore, India) Muchas gracias por la informacion quiero enviarme mi hoja de vida para poder colaborarles en lo referente al medio ambiente en mi pais Colombia, aqui tenemos muchas cosas que podemos ayudar para mejorar el medio ambinete. (Maria Cristina Castaño Valencia, Fundaguadua Foundation, Buga, Colombia) Many thanks for your article and communication the Peak Oil / Peak Coal related issues/effects/dangers for companies. I will resend to any people that will be interesting in this topics. I take a quick look at www.growindus.com (fresh food production within/nearby cities, in/after Peak Oil). Very interesting. (Gustavo Urrea, Bio-trade Manager Lafarve, President of the Board Nativa, Representative Bionativa, Colombia) Many thanks for you message with very interesed report on doble world crisis (energy and food). I will contact you for discussion afer reading this report. (Hassan El Bari, Géosciences de l'environnement, Université Ibn Tofaïl, Morocco) Thank you for the analysis 2008, I will have a good reading of it and then my comments later. I have observed that countries in the developing world such as ours in Southern Africa are and still will suffer a lot under such global changes and somehow we do have some challenges on how to tackle such problems. This is because these countries ( southern Africa) have wealth in natural resources but trouble comes when they have to get value for them in return. My comments later then. Tell me more about your finance model or is it part of the Analysis? Yes you are right (too complex for one small e-mail). But I think I can grab something from what you told me as both econometrics and finance investments are at play here. (Ocean Zibuse Simelane, Swaziland National Provident Fund, Swaziland) Thank you very much for this document which appears to be a substantive work very interesting. I will transmit it to some people who will certainly be interested in this work. (Laurent Boutot, Ecology expert, programmer analyst, public policies evaluation, water management, Branch Director, Oréade-Brèche, Toulouse, France) Thank you very much for sending me the Global Resource Analysis-Volume 1, 2008. (Choup Kosal, Rural Development Bank, Cambodia) Thank you for your work. I will back to you next week. (Issotina Kassimou, Executive Director, Lambassa ICA Benin, United Nation Environmental Program, Cotonou, Benin) It is pity that you are not a seminar man. But I am sure that we will find other ways for cooperation when our thinking and ideas in EuroFound are progressing. Thank you for many emails. They helped a lot of my thinking. I have drafted a proposal for our internal use where I propose to start a project with a start workshop. This is a new project and we have to think about the financial resources if there is any left. We will invite you and your colleague into that seminar. When it will take place is open at the moment. (Timo Kauppinen, EuroFound, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions) Thank you very much. Very useful reading materials. I have shared with like minded folks here. (Charles Nyandiga, United Nations Development Programme, Programme Officer, Natural Resources and GEF, Kenya) Thanks for the highly informative analysis on global resources. I will revert back to you for any clarifications. (Charles Mwandila, Town Clerk, Mufulira Municipal Council, Mufulira, Zambia) Thank you very much for sending the report to me. (Trygve Berg, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Noragric, Norway) Thank you for this... (Nesa Subrahmaniyan, Bloomberg Newsroom, Singapore) I thoroughly enjoyed reading the text. I think the analysis is too pessimistic. Before I find myself falling on the floor laughing (FOFL), my view is that this is NOT one of the scores of annual doomsday predictions which never materialize, but there are at least four things we can do about it: 1) reduce demand (demand down, prices down); 2) increase supply; 3) pay the high price of everything by hook or by crook, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, reducing payment to something so we can increase payment for something else – I think this is called budgeting; and 4) I have no idea what the fourth thing is, but likely there is a fourth thing – oh yes, it is doing without. The easiest way to reduce demand is to increase prices; second, mandate work-at-home strategies to reduce the demand for fuel for internal combustion engines (that is, commuter cars). The easiest way to increase supply is to harness non-traditional, innovative technologies, like waste-to-energy, solar, wind, geothermal, and dare I say, nuclear, and of course, reduce barriers to international energy and commodities trade. Either way, I am grateful for Indus Corporation for taking the lead on these earth-shaking issues, as they are “sharing a passion for profit, performance, people and planet by innovation.” Bless them for such a noble cause. I sent an email a few weeks ago to the Federal Environmental Executive, giving my best shot at reducing high energy prices overnight, at no cost. Simply if the President would issue an executive order requiring all federal agencies to mandate work-at-home strategies. That would lead to all governors doing the same, all mayors the same, all large corporations the same. Even if only 5 to 10 percent would comply, the fuel demand would drop, demand would drop, and prices would, duh, drop... Go figure. I got a response. Seems the president has issued such an executive order, several years ago, but there is little follow through. Go figure. Please call or email me with questions/issues. (Barney P. Popkin, FSL, CHMM, CAL/PG & REA, Environmental Protection Specialist, Cognizant Technical Officer - Environmental Management Capacity, Building Project, USAID/Asia-Middle East/Technical Support, US Aid, Washington, USA) This sounds very interesting. Many thanks in advance. All the best. (Enrico Chiesa, Co-Team Leader, Euromed Audiovisual, European Union, Brussels, Belgium) Thanks for the update. Looks like our politicians have gone to sleep at the switch. Too much “look out for your seat" in government and not enough character. Thanks for the notice. (John Deal, Insight to Freedom, USA) Thank you for sharing this comprehensive study with me. Many thanks also for pinpointing to the Global Resources Analysis network group which I intend to join soon! As for the report I can say it is a great work well done. I am certain it will help many to realise what the mankind has to deal with in very close future. l have been already distributing the analyses to friends and those interested in alternative energy sources. Wishing you lots of good luck and success in the next phases for proclaiming the PeakX consequences worldwide. I will appreciate if you add my email to your distribution list for further valuable documents you intend to share in future. (Ivan Balinov, Association for Organic Beekeeping, Bulgaria) Thank you for the document. Hope you can send related documents to me in the future. (Atazona Luke, Policy Assistant, Budget Analysis and Advocacy, ISODEC, Integrated Social Development Centre, Accra, Ghana) Thanks ! What I can help technically, I am ready to support you. (Bhola Ghimire, MSc in Hydropower Engineering, Secretary General, Telecommunications Employees Association of Nepal, Nepal) Many thanks! (Ederson Augusto Zanetti, Florestas Researcher, EMBRAPA, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Engenheiro Florestal; mestre pela Universität di Friburg Alemanha; professor convidado junto a Harper College Chicago/USA, Brasília, Brasil) We would like to thank you very much for the pre-publishing copy of the "Global Resources Analysis report" which you addressed to Mr Stancic and which found his utmost attention. Please note that we forwarded it to the adequate Directorate in DG Research with the request for follow-up. (Beatrix Lehmann, Secretariat Zoran Stancic, Deputy Director-General, Scientific advances, European Commission, DG Research, European Union, Brussels, Belgium) Thanks most useful, let me go thru the dossier and revert. Thanks for the heads up. As I venture into this environment, could Indus Corporation take the initiative to invite and sponsor me to various events taking place that would allow me to learn more and network amongst stakeholders? Does my Green initiative appeal to Indus Corporation and can we look forward to further engagement in discussions that will result in the first Green School in East Africa? (Bill Omamo Jnr, International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC Nairobi, Kenya) Thanks, I have passed this on to colleagues at USAID who specialize in education, economic growth, environment, democracy and governance, health, and humanitarian assistance, Barney (Barney Popkin, ME/TS, Environmental Protection, Asia and Near East, US Aid, Washington, USA) Thank you for sending me the Global Resources Analysis 2008. I am intersted working with you or giving my assistance in whatever way possible. Just make the suggestions and consider it done. (Yinka Suleiman, Nigerian National Coordinator, 21st Century African Youth Movement, Nigeria) Thank you very much for your email. (Ing. David Spacek, Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Thank you very much for sending me this report. I am very interested in the subject, so I will surely read it. (Angeline de Groote, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium) Thank you for sharing an interesting and useful document. Looking forward to get such documents in future also. (Bimal, Enabling State Programme, Kiran Bhawan, Sanepa, Lalitpur, Nepal) Thank You very much for this report. Since, I am vorking in higher education area, I ll send this report to all professors at my university, so that they can discus it with sudents comment together. (Alim Abazovic, Univerzitet "Džemal Bijedic" Mostar, Kancelarija za osiguranje kvaliteta, USRC "Midhat Hujdur - Hujka", Univerzitet "Džemal Bijediv" u Mostaru, Rektorat, unmo.ba) Thanks for the Global Resources Analysis. I will et time to read through.Please am making a request. If you know where I can get scholarship for my Masters degree, please assist me. I'm desperately looking for sponsorship to do Masters in Public Health in Australia Wollongong University. I will appreciate any information which can lead me to this. (Beatrice Muraguri, Health Information Officer, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya) Thank you very much for sending me the copy of manuscript Global Resources Analysis. I will read carefully and I will send you my comments as soon as possible. Seen to me that the document has important facts that are very important to divulge to all the people. (Dr. Aarón Sánchez Juárez, Centro de Investigación en Energía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico) Thank you for sending me this very interesting, very in-depth and timely analysis. I have some reading to do now! (Diane Buccheri, Publisher, OCEAN Magazine) Thanks very much. (Silvia Pasti, Chief Child Protection Section, UNICEF, Southern Sudan Support Center, Nairobi, Kenya) Mauritania today became the last 3 years oil producing country. Oil infrastructure and rail now fills the list of national development projects. IT remains that foreign investors are slow to grasp an opportunity to invest in a country where political stability reflects a favorable climate. Our department is renowned for its work in the field and its commitment functional offers its facilitation services to come invest in Mauritania in such circumstances (Ahmed Ould Bessid, Director Office, Research, ENNOUR Consulting, Nouakchott, Mauritania) Thank you for many emails. They helped a lot of my thinking. I have drafted a proposal for our internal use where I propose to start a project with a start workshop. This is a new project and we have to think about the financial resources if there is any left. We will invite you and your colleague into that seminar. When it will take place is open at the moment. (Timo Kauppinen, EuroFound, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, European Commission) It is a big document you are working on writing, and a very important topic. (Dr. Glen Wurden, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, National Security Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory -LANL-, previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy -DOE- national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), located in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA) Thank you for sharing with us a copy of the “Global Resources Analysis” I went through the document and it has a lot of interesting an valuable information, and also combines information on the current status but also ways to manage the a post PeakOil scenario. On the parts of the document you address environment, you place much more emphasis on climate change; biodiversity loss is the “other” and not much acknowledged issue we face and is should be noted that this is not only about loosing fauna and flora, but it is about the alteration of ecosystems and their services, and the direct relation with basic human wellbeing (this before thinking of prosperity). Extensive work on this has been done with the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment http://www.millenniumassessment.org, and through the convention on biological diversity www.cbd.int you may find this information interesting for your research. I enjoyed also the closing paragraph of your document. Thanks again and good luck on your endeavors. (Samuel Sangüeza Pardo, Director Ejecutivo, Fondo Ambiental Nacional, fan.org.ec, Atahualpa, Edificio Financiero Amazonas, Quito, Ecuador) Thank you for the draft document, which I will read. Scanning it briefly plus your e-mail is interesting. Please in return visit our website at www.intrean.org. Where you will find information on our activities. Perhaps we could discuss how our two organizations might best cooperate. Our main areas of activity in relation to resources are: Low carbon content construction panels/carbon offsetting globally and waste to energy in Ukraine and planned for Russia. Thanks for your swift response. Let us try to decide upon some common and workable plan. My background is that I am by education and profession from 25 years ago an economist. (Masters Degree Edinburgh 1984). I have worked for many years as a stockbroker and IFA in London, where I still am based and am regulated by the FSA. I have worked in Russia for 15 years and Ukraine for 3 years including work with UNECE, EU, several Russian and Ukrainian government bodies. I previously was an adviser to the Gazprom captive insurance company ‘Sogaz’. My current interests are: pan-European financial services under MiFID, environmentally sustainable land use (agricultural and housing)/waste to energy/biofuels/biomass/agricultural land as carbon sink, PPP infrastructure in CIS, beginning mainly with transport in Russia and Ukraine where I am still advising the governments, alternative socio-economic models. (Douglas JP Prentice, Euro Capital Group, London, UK) Thanks for reply and great interest into the topic. Why I was asking your advise was that at the moment we are drafting a four year programme for the Foundation and would like to start some future oriented projects. After having decided the topic the EuroFound will launch an open competition in the Official Journal of the EU and we hope that all interested would participate in the tender process. So, if you have any good ideas or topics we could think about including them into our programme and later launch tenders. I would like to ask your help in making a future oriented research project, foresight project, for the European Foundation on covering living conditions, working conditions, industrial relations and structural change in Europe. What would be your proposal? What should be analysed taking into account your book. (Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, eurofound.europa.eu) Thanks for the letter. I'm considered somewhat of a market visionary myself. Electronics will solve the energy problems very rapidly. Harnessing wind and sun is really no big deal in comparison to creating a global wireless network or putting a team of five on the moon. The obstacles to getting rid of fossil fuels are all manmade. So don't worry, be happy. Also, review the work of Tesla, when you get some time. (Dennis M. Zogbi, CEO and Founder Paumanok Publications, paumanokgroup.com, Cary, NC, USA) Thanks. It is a good report in a timely manner. (Dr. Sang H. Choi, Senior Scientist, NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA) One thing I did notice was that the writing style was similar to the work of Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale who wrote "Funky Business" amongst other books. It is a writing style I admire and find easy to read, so I would hope to review your paper in the coming weeks. (Neil Huggan, Royal Town Planning Institute, The Highland Council, Scotland, UK) Thank you for the message. Its very important document and I will resend it to all interested people, possible they will contact you directly if they are interested on it. It’s very important to understand the situation from the critical point of view taking into account the situation in the world and disasters happening. Especially the situation in Tajikistan is difficult because of poverty and disaster situation where government asked for international help and UN announced flash appeal if you know http://www.untj.org/?c=7&id=238. Anyway hope the situation will change for the better. Thank you once more for the information and further I would be interested to receive such kind of information, (Umida Tulieva, Prog. Officer, Act Central Asia, NGO, Dushanbe, Tajikistan) Thank you for your excellent report. It is easy to read and shocks readers with its visions. I will forward it to my colleagues. (Timo Kauppinen, eurofound.europa.eu) Na een snelle scan van je brief en het rapport ben ik zeer onder de indruk. Tegelijkertijd ben ik over de energievoorziening op langere termijn minder bezorgd (zie bijlage). Over de voedselvoorziening wel. Ik mis in die snelle scan het opraken van fosfaat. In de bijlage vind je ook een verwijzing naar het tweede deel van de Tweede Duurzaamheidsverkenning van het MNP vorig jaar met een afbeelding van het toekomstig landbouwareaal dat Rusland ook als winnaar aanwijst. (Prof. Dr. Ing. Taeke de Jong, Technical Ecology and Methodology, Technological University Delft, Holland) Thank you for sending the pre-publication report. I would like to offer to streamline the text and correct the English so that your report has maximum impact. I am a former newspaper and magazine writer and editor and currently a communications employee for a worldwide non-profit organization. If this proposal interests you, I'd be happy to provide a quotation. (Monte Mace, Lawrence, Kansas, USA) Thank you very much for sharing the report with me which I find it useful.... (Navy Kann, World Food Programme, UN Agency, Libanon) Many thanks. It really helpful. Congratulation on such a comprehensive report (Mansoor Raza, Coordinator Disaster Response, cwspa.org.pk, Pakistan) Thanks for the pre-published copy of Global Resources Analysis 2008. I'm great full for the information you send to me. (Geoffrey Leaparteleg, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, CGIAR, Worldbank, Washington, USA) Ik zal het met plezier lezen. (Egon Vorfeld, IWM Independent Wealth Management S.A., Geneva, Swiss) I will read your report soon and with great interest and trepidation. I have just participated at an UN conference on food and agrofuel issues, and facts on the ground are darker than my direst predictions. (Prof. Tadeusz W. Patzek, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA) This is much appreciated. Warm regards. (Prof. Nicholas Biekpe, Professor in Development Finance and Econometrics, University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa) Than you very much for the GRA report. Will use it extensively and share it with my colleagues and friends. Will be in touch once. (Prof. Kailash Chandra Malhotra, Indian Acedemy of Sciences, Ecology and Applied Anthropology, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkotta, Uttar Pradesh, India) Thanks for sending the article. Growing food near cities will become a reality, which I expected since last four years. Fresh food with high water content cannot be transported for long distances with high energy costs. Please keep in touch. (Bhat, ARU Leading Edge Pvt. Ltd., taru.org) Thanks for this literature. Please be assured that I would attempt to go through at my pace. (Ukpong Udeme, Sharon Consultative & Research Management, Nigeria) Your draft report has much useful information. (William Bailey, Executive Director, Oakton, VA, USA) Though I have not completely gone through this report, I am confident to say thanks for sharing, from sections I have read its not only interesting but informative. (Edson Mugore, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia) Interesting report. I have not yet had time digest the report but it seems like a most thorough analysis of the massive problem facing society. Even from a cursory examination I suspect that I can not add to the conclusion, but will hope to comment later. (Lyn Bates, Managing Director, AJAX Equipment, Bolton, United Kingdom) Thank you. (Cathy Dean, Director, Save the Rhino International, London, United Kingdom) Glad to get this. I sent to some key leaders in the largest professional organization in the world (IEEE) that works on the technical parts of power and energy, earth observation, EE, electronics and more. Can you email me hi resolution copies of the graphs (and photos if you have them)? I will use to effect and send along. (Paul E. Gartz, President IEEE Systems Council 2008-09, Past President IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society 2004-05, Boeing Technical Fellowship, 787 Goldcare Systems-of-Systems Architect, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle, WA, USA) Thanks for the Global Resource Analysis 2008 report. It will go a long way to inform me and other analysts, policy makers and lecturers in energy and related issues. (John Mutua, Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, KIPPRA, Kenya) Could I please get a copy of the Global Ressource Analysis, Vol.III thanks (Prof. Dr. Klaus Heinloth vom Physikalischen Institut der Universität Bonn, Germany) We have well received copy of Global Ressources Analysis Report. Many thanks and best regards. (Mohammed Digua, Fair Insurance & Reinsurance Brokers, Maroc) Thanks for the all-encompassing report. It is very well made. (Nitin Phansalkar, Coordinator, Desertec, India) Bedankt voor de toegestuurde informatie. (Ad Koppejan, CDA, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland) Hiermee bevestig ik u de ontvangst van onderstaande e-mail. Gezien de inhoud heb ik deze onder de aandacht gebracht van mijn fractiegenoot Halbe Zijlstra. Hopende u hiermede van dienst te zijn geweest. (Mark Rutte, VDD, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland) Thank you for sending this message and the report to Ms. Verdonk. We always appreciate useful information on current events. (Mels de Zeeuw, Group Verdonk, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland) Dankjewel, 'k stuur dit ook door naar onze beleidsmedewerker Economische Zaken! (Janie de Jong, secr. SGP, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland) Your proposal about making documentary about Peak oil looks interesting. One suggestion for you, its better to make documentary not like making a presentation for high level company. Make it simple and understandable, with real people not with statistic but with real situation in daily life. (Asmayani Kusrini, Rumah Film, Indonesia) Thank you very much for your email. I'm definitely aware of peak oil and have been nearly for the past decade. In fact, Michelle Coomber, my lovely director and I have an idea for such a film. But I am curious as to how you received my contact and was wondering what you were thinking in terms of contribution and participation from both yourselves and Mortal Coil Media? As you likely know, documentaries are quite difficult to finance because the industry is so competitive. The idea that we have for our film is one that we haven't been able to start because it takes place on 3 continents and thus will take a fair amount of financial resources to get things going... We have a few plans that break things down, but without even initial financing to be honest, there are limitations. I looked at your website and am impressed by your activities. I look forward to hearing why you'd like to make a documentary on peak oil. Any suggestions that you have are most welcome. (Dana Wilson, film producer, Mortal Coil Media, Czech Republic) Thanks for contacting me and sending me the interesting report. Of course the PeakOil and the change of the energy sources is one of the most important problems humanity have to face nowadays (together with climate changes and poverty...). I completely agree with the idea of making some kind of audiovisual work with it, documentary or featureded film. I just I don't understand very well what do you expect from me. If you're looking for economical sources you're obvsiously not talking with the right person, if you're looking for ideas or developping a project this might be possible. There thousands of ways to make a film about one tema, I think you've the tema very clear for the film, but there many diferent ways to develop it, and is on this developing of the tema, thinking in visual and auditive terms and of course the ideas and feelings that are behind the images and sounds, where the film gets his own personality, where the film starts being itself in a way or another. So basically the quality and depth of the film will start being present in it when you will start developping it. Right now all the posibilities are open I think.... It's amazing how many diferent titles you were thinking on, honestly I think the title of the film will come to it alone when the film will be developped... If there is anything I can do to help you, let me know. (Guillermo Carreras-Candi, Filmer, Barcelona, Spain) Thank you for your email. And thanks for sending the report. I agree completely that Peak Oil is a very important issue. We have brought this up on several occasions in our cinema and organised discussions to rise the awareness of the problem. We have screened films like End of Suburbia, Peak Oil - Imposed by Nature and Crude Impact. And yes, I definitely support any attempt to increase awareness about this issue, and I agree that film is a powerful medium. But how do you propose that I/we (Oslo Dokumentarkino / Oslodocs.com) can contribute to this initiative? (Ketil Magnussen, Oslo Dokumentarkino, Norway) I'm really interested in this project .... Let's talk !! (Cedric) Thanks. (Justin Pemberton, Producer-Director, The TV Set Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand) Huge thanks for sending this, it's VERY interesting! (Kim Chandler, Features Editor XM Magazine, Amsterdam, Holland) Dank voor de toezending. Ik zal uw publicatie lezen. (Sadet Karabulut, Socialist Party, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland) Looks interesting will get back to you shortly after I ve looked at what you are asking me to look at (Rehad Desai, Southern Africa Communications for Development, SACOD, South Africa) Thanks for your e-mail. The topic of this documentary is indeed interesting, and has crossed my mind a number of times. (Susannah Burnette, American Filmmaker, Utrecht, Holland) Thank you for the report. (Geert Schaap, SWECO, Nivelles, Belgium) Met jou maak ik mij grote zorgen over de macro-economische effecten van doorgaande stijging van energie en grondstoffenprijzen. Ons land zal daaraan bijvoorbeeld energiepolitiek en fiscale consequenties moeten verbinden. (Johan Remkes, VVD, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland) I thank you for this interesting report and I kindly ask to keep me informed about future initiatives. (Paolo Fracas, Business Development Manager, Fuel Cell Materials, Saati Group, Italy) Thanks a lot for this very interesting Report! (Dr. Janis Kleperis, Head of Hydrogen and Gas Sensors Laboratory, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia) Hartelijk bedankt voor het toesturen. (Attje Kuiken, PvdA, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland) Thank you very much for report and for free posibility to circulate it. I am an manager for HYDROGEN cluster in Czech republik. On 10 of April our Technical University will take hold the workshop on " Hydrogen Technologies, Fuell Cells and Applications". Surelly I use some information from your report. (Mrs. Miluše Váchová, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Thank you. I’ll look it over. (Dan Bolton, Editor-in-chief, Natural Food Network, San Francisco, CA, USA) It is indeed important and let me know how we can co operate. (Shaul) Ik stuur deze door aan onze woordvoeder energie: Halbe Zijlstra. (Gessica Bearzatto MSc. BA., Medewerker Charlie B. Aptroot, VVD-fractie Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal, The Haque, Holland) I would like thank you for your email. Even though I was busy editing a film I took a look at your references and found them interesting. I will be glad to cooperate with you on this project. As a Middle Eastern citizen whose life is dependent on the oil this project is of great priority to me and I would do whatever it takes to make it happen. The only thing that is unclear to me is the procedure of making it and where I will be standing in creating this film. Please inform me of the process of making this film. (Ramtin Lafaipour) Sounds great. I'll be on line sporadically over the next week as we are filming in Slovakia until the beginning of April, so if you don't hear from me right away, I'll get back to you asap. Good luck with the LOIs. (Dana Wilson, Film Producer, Canada) I agree with you peak oil and food shortages or both excellent subjects for a documentary/feature film. I am very interested in economics and been following the demise of the US$ for sometime. We are indeed going to be going through monumental changes regarding energy and food production in the not too distant future. Thank you for sharing your work it is an impressive and through analysis of the problems and solutions. I will be traveling to Amsterdam March 25th returning to the US on April 2nd, would it be possible to connect when I am in the Netherlands? (Louise Hogarth, director/producer, Dream Out Loud ilms, Los Angeles, CA, USA) I am interested. But how should we work together on such a documentary? Should we make an appointment to speak about it? (Goran Baba Ali, journalist, Kurdistan/Iraq/Holland) Hartelijk dank voor uw mail aan Jan Marijnissen. Hij vroeg mij deze te beantwoorden. Dank dat u de SP Tweede Kamerfractie hiervan op de hoogte heeft gesteld. Uw informatie is wellicht bruikbaar in Kamerdebatten. (Fetse Visser, medewerker SP Tweede Kamerfractie, namens Jan Marijnissen, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland) Bedankt! Mooi stuk werk. (Willem Middelkoop, Economic Analyst, Host RTLZ Business TV Channel, Holland) Mijn dank voor het toezenden van de interessante informatie over de energie-situatie in de wereld. U zult het mij hopelijk niet kwalijk nemen dat ik de ruim honderd pagina's niet zal lezen. Dat laat ik aan meer deskundigen in die materie over. Ik ben mij echter zeer bewust van de gevaren van een toenemende schaarste aan energie-dragers in de wereld. Vooral gelegen in de sfeer van de zeggenschap daar over. En de consequenties die dat in de vorm van uitbreken van conflicten en oorlogen zal hebben. Nog tijdens mijn senatorschap raakte ik betrokken bij een stichting die tot doel had vredeseducatie in het onderwijs te bevorderen. Inmiddels ben ik voorzitter van Stichting VredesWetenschappen (www.stichtingvredeswetenschappen.nl). Een stichting die zich als doel heeft gesteld via de wetenschap voorwaarden voor vrede te analyseren. De stichting beheert inmiddels 2 bijzondere leerstoelen, een economische aan het Institute of Social Studies in Den Haag en een juridische.aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Professor Mansoob S. Murshed bezet de economische leerstoel aan het ISS in Den Haag. Het bijgaande artikel van zijn hand raakt aan de door u geschetste problematiek. Misschien vindt u het interessant. Ik heb er geen idee van met welke groeperingen in de maatschappij uw organisatie in contact staat. Ik weet dan ook niet of ik uw informatie aan Mansoob Murshed toe zal sturen. Ik weet niet of hij er al van op de hoogte is. U veel succes toewensend met uw werk op dit gebied. (Drs. Cobi Schoondergang-Horikx, Emiritus Senate Member Groen Links, Senate, Holland) Dat is goed, maar ik denk wel dat er draagvlak te vinden is. Er moet wel snel actie worden ondernomen want ik weet toevallig dat er meerdere docu makers met olie bezig zijn. Geweldig onderwerp. Ik hoor graag van je. (Romy Balvers, filmmaker, Amsterdam, Holland) I have been reading the GLOBAL RESOURCES ANALYSIS 2008 draft version and see that Volume III will have details of the finance model. I am currently working with 2 private commercial clients who are seeking additional co-finance or funding for PV power plants in Bulgaria and this document will be of great assistance to me in developing the plants. My specific requirements is the identification of potential financing sources for the projects. If you can please send me volume 3 and any additional information concerning the identification of potential financiers for such projects I would be most grateful. (Adrian Robinson, Varna, Bulgaria) |