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POLLUTEC/ADEME Energies 2000: advancing by leaps and bounds The 16th POLLUTEC / ADEME ENERGIES event (Lyon, 17-20 October 2000) marked a milestone in the development of environmental industry and services, revealing their maturity paired with confidence and dynamic activity. |
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BY CASE Energy Management Environmentally friendly hotels In January 1999 ADEME and the ACCOR hotel group signed a partnership agreement aimed at reducing conventional energy consumption in ACCOR hotels. The approach is to combine energy efficiency with the use of renewable energy, particularly solar energy. Solvents: reducing discharges, enhancing value The Lawson Mardon Morin company is a pioneer in France in finding ways to reduce the amounts of solvents released to the atmosphere. |
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WORLDWIDE ALTENER 2000 Conference “Renewable Energy for Europe” is up and running NOXCONF 2001 Conference |
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Energy efficiency: France is mobilising The national programme to raise energy efficiency announced on 6 December by Environment Minister Dominique Voynet has ambitious targets, in keeping with France's commitments to combat global warming. The programme calls for reinforced energy management and conservation, particularly in the transport sector, and a genuine "lift-off" for renewable energy. Power generation will be supported by attractive purchase rates. This programme is expected to generate investment in excess of 15 billion francs (2.29 billion) per year until 2010 (notably via bank loans), avoiding 16 million tons of carbon emissions annually. ADEME has been chosen to lead a number of schemes under this programme, and will receive supplementary financial and human resources as a consequence. For the agency and its action, this represents a change in dimension. Measures to inform the public and stimulate changes in behaviour will be a prime focus; they will be implemented through a network of Energy Information Points targeting individuals, small businesses and local authorities, as well as national information campaigns. More than ever, ADEME will work closely with all its partners at national and regional levels, pursuing those joint efforts that promise to be the most effec-tive and build up a broad coalition of stakeholders. Pierre Radanne President, ADEME |
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