- Hermann Scheer
Hermann Scheer (born
April 29 1944 inWehrheim ) is a Social Democrat member of theGerman Bundestag (Parliament), President ofEurosolar (The European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of theWorld Council for Renewable Energy . [ [http://www.dea.org.au/node/144 Book Review: Energy Autonomy. The economic, social and technological case for renewable energy] ] In 1999, Scheer was awarded theRight Livelihood Award for his "indefatigable work for the promotion of solar energy worldwide". [http://www.rightlivelihood.org/scheer.html Right Livelihood Award] ]Scheer believes that the continuation of current patterns of energy supply and use will be environmentally damaging, with
renewable energy being the only realistic alternative. Scheer has concluded that it is technically and environmentally feasible to harness enough solar radiation to achieve a total replacement of the fossil/nuclear energy system by a global renewable energy economy. The main obstacle to such a change is seen to be political, not technical or economic . In 1999 he was one of the initiators of the German feed-in tariffs that were the major source of the rise of renewable energies in Germany during the following years.Life
Scheer has been a member of the
Social Democratic Party of Germany since 1965. As a student, while majoring ineconomics andlaw , he was active in student politics at theUniversity of Heidelberg , and participated in theGerman student movement of the 1960s. In1979 , he graduated from theFree University of Berlin as a doctor ofpolitical science . He has been a member of theBundestag since1980 , representingBaden-Württemberg ; since1993 , he has also been a member of the federal steering committee ("Bundesvorstand") of the Social Democratic Party. In the shadow cabinet ofAndrea Ypsilanti , candidate for prime minister ofHesse in2008 , Scheer is pegged as minister for economics and the environment.Books
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Energy Autonomy ", The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy, 2006,Earthscan , ISBN 184473556
*"A Solar Manifesto", 2005, Earthscan, ISBN 1902916514
*"The Solar Economy", Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future , 2004, Earthscan, ISBN 1844070751ee also
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