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zerocarbonbritain demonstrates how Britain can eliminate emissions from fossil fuels and break our dependence on imported energy by 2030 by significantly increasing energy efficiency and by installing massive renewable energy generation.

In Europe, America and across the world, many organisations are examining how their nations and regions can do the same.

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The Centre for Alternative Technology is a member of INFORSE, the International Network for Sustainable Energy. INFORSE is a worldwide NGO network which works for the implementation of sustainable energy solutions by exchange of information, awareness creation, formulation and implementation of strategies, and lobbying of international forums.

INFORSE have launched the Vision2050 programme which shows how we can change the world's unsustainable energy system into a sustainable one. According to this Vision, 100% of our energy needs can come from renewable sources by 2050. INFORSE members have developed Vision2050 models for global, regional and national scales. The Global Vision2050 is described on the INFORSE homepage:

An EU Vision and several individual country Visions are available on the INFORSE-Europe's Vision2050 homepage:

Also based in Europe is the Low Carbon Societies Network project. This runs until September 2011 and focuses on the development of low carbon scenarios for Germany and France. These scenarios will respect the 2°C limit of global temperature rise and be focused on energy efficiency and proven renewable energy technologies.

It will involve a close examination of the economic and employment impacts of such measures through the use of roundtables gathering economic stakeholders such as trade unions and consumer associations, as well as the use of macroeconomic models developed by research institutes in France and Germany. You can find out more about this project by visiting the Low Carbon Societies Network homepage:

In Germany, WWF have published a report, Blueprint Germany: A strategy for a climate safe 2050, showing how Germany can achieve a 95 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050.

Summaries in English can be downloaded from:

10 page summary: http://www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm-wwf/pdf_neu/blueprint_germany_folder.pdf

36 page summary: http://www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm-wwf/pdf_neu/blueprint_germany_wwf.pdf

The full report is available in German only from: http://www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm-wwf/pdf_neu/WWF_Modell_Deutschland_Endbericht.pdf

In Northern France, Virage-énergie has produced a plan for a nuclear-free 75% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions within the Nord-Pas de Calais region. By working on the regional scale, Virage-énergie hope to arouse a stronger awareness and mobilisation of local citizens as well as more opportunity to facilitate choices on concrete actions by regional political decision-makers. For more information, visit the Virage-énergie website:

http://www.virage-energie-npdc.org

In Ireland, a conference entitled Zero Carbon Ireland - Where do we want to be by 2050? was recently hosted by the Dublin Institute of Technology. Now a website has been set up which seeks your comments and articles. At the end of March 2010 all articles and comments are to be collated and published. You can find out more about the conference, and participate by providing your comments by visiting:

http://localdem.org

Across the Atlantic, the Carbon Free, Nuclear Free project offers a roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy. The report, Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy shows how the U.S. can achieve a carbon-free nuclear-free U.S. energy system that we can create by 2050, through efficiency savings and the development of solar and wind power technologies, as well as other renewable technologies, all at a reasonable cost. Find out more, and download the report or summaries of it, from the Carbon Free, Nuclear Free website:

http://www.carbonfreenuclearfree.org

In Australia, a report on how the nation can achieve 100% renewable energy by 2020, the Zero Carbon Australia Plan (ZCA2020), will be published early in 2010. The project is entirely the work of a team of volunteer contributors - ordinary Australians with experience and expertise in engineering and other relevant disciplines - working to provide an empowering vision of decisive action to combat climate change in the Australian context. Further information on the project is available from the website:

http://www.beyondzeroemissions.org/zero-carbon-australia-2020