Launched during the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22), the new clean technology alliance aims to federate the main actors in the field of clean technologies and create synergies, promote profitable solutions to the world’s environmental and health challenges.
The alliance has been launched as part of the vision of the Solar Impulse co-pilots Bertrand Piccard, also the initiator and chairman, and André Borschberg, the co-founder and CEO, to globally advance the clean technologies development.
The launch also follows successful completion of first round of solar flight around the globe.
Solar Impulse Foundation chairman Bertrand Piccard said: “We need to embrace clean technologies, not because they are ‘eco-logical,’ but because they are ‘logical.’
“Even if climate change didn’t exist, energy efficient technologies would make sense to create jobs, generate profit and boost economic development, while also reducing CO2 emissions and protecting natural resources.”
In addition to focusing on producing renewable energy, the alliance involves technologies, systems, know-hows or processes to protect the environment, increase energy efficiency or save natural resources, while creating jobs, generating profit and sustaining growth.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) executive secretary Patricia Espinosa said: “Initiatives like the World Alliance for Clean Technologies are exactly what we need to further enable investors, governments, cities and citizens to harvest the rich variety of clean technologies that already exist or are under development.
“We need the best and brightest minds – from the North and the South – to deliver clean technologies that can collectively accomplish the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement and all the Sustainable Development Goals to catalyze a healthy and prosperous future for all."
Image: The Solar Impulse aircraft during its global voyage. Photo: ©Solar Impulse | Anna Pizzolante | Rezo.ch.
