{"id":6696,"date":"2012-06-18T21:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T01:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:44:30","slug":"clean-energy-trends-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/clean-energy-trends-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Energy Trends on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As the world converges in Rio de Janeiro for the biggest sustainability conference of the year, the Rio+20, twitter activity is booming. One of the most popular hashtags today was #endfossilfuelsubsidies, which aims to end subsidies for fossil fuel energy.
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A sustainable future must hinge on alternative energy<\/a>, such as solar and wind power, but most subsidies still go to dirty fossil fuels, which attract twelve times more subsidies than clean energy.<\/p>\n

The Twitter storm, as the organizers have called it, was launched from a homonymous website. From there visitors can sign a petition asking G20 leaders to commit to clean energy. It says:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As concerned global citizens, we urge you to honour your previous commitments to end taxpayer handouts to the fossil fuel industry. To save our planet we need a game-changer now — we call on you to first lead by example, and then make ending all polluter payments the top global priority for the Rio Earth Summit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to an eye-opening study by the International Energy Agency<\/a>, if we eliminated subsidies for coal, gas and oil we could save as much as Germany’s annual greenhouse gas emissions each year by 2015.<\/p>\n

More than a million people have signed the petition. Why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you add your voice to it<\/a>? Clean energy needs official support and policies at this stage, as the German case illustrates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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