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Lutz P.C. Buehler Think Tank Sustainable Energy Transformation
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Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Christoph Gerhards Beratung im Bereich Energie und Klima-
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Michelle Helene Reuter Climate & Energy Policy Officer @Energy Watch Group I M.A. Sustainability Economics and Management-
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Hans-Josef Fell President @ Energy Watch Group I German MP 1998-2013 I Co-author of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act 2000 I Political consultancy on 100% renewable energy and climate protection-
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Lena Tischler Project & Communications Manager at Energy Watch Group-
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Overview
The Energy Watch Group (EWG) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan global network of scientists and parliamentarians. The EWG was established in 2006 by an international group of parliamentarians under the direction of the then-member of the German Parliament Hans-Josef Fell against the background that: Energy policy needs objective information to avoid both the public and private sector misinvestments worth billions, but this endeavour is undermined by the fact that: - Policies are often influenced by inter-national organizations and governments that are, in myriad ways, interconnected with the conventional energy economy - Stakeholders in the conventional energy economy profit from the status-quo and are therefore in most cases not neutral towards all energy sources - Science is often used as a tool, which serves these vested interests. The science that receives the greatest political attention systematically under-estimates the growth potential of renewable energy and its opportunities for mankind while it overestimates the availability of cheap energy from conventional sources
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