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9. 1990-1999

9.1 ISES 1990-1999
1990
• ISES Utility Initiative for Africa seminars were held in Johannesburg, South Africa and was in Nairobi
(co-sponsored by UNEP): both declared universal energy access a basic human right.
• The first World Renewable Energy Congress was organised by Professor Ali Sayigh.
• ISES works was presented at the UN Conference on Environment & Development (UNCED).
• ISES 2000 program, a plan for transforming ISES was debated and adopted.
• ISES Sponsorship Program to assist developing countries to form ISES Sections was announced.
• A regional secretariat office in Europe – ISES Europe was established.
• Cyprus was accepted as a Section.
International Association for Solar Energy Education (IASEE) became an ISES Working Group.

1991
• Turkey, Croatia, Romania, Malaysia and the USSR were accepted as Sections.
• ISES Europe became the umbrella organization for all the European Sections.
• ISES provided recommendations to the Rio Earth Summit.

Figure 35: Survey on Energy, Environment & Development, Preliminary Conclusions
and Recommendations March 1991

• ISES participated in the Conference of the Parties for UNCED 3 in Geneva.
• ISES contributed to the successful Consortium for Action to Protect the Earth

Figure 36: Debating energy policy in the UNCED Working Group 3, Geneva

• Professor Adolf Goetzberger (Germany) was elected President.
• ISES facilitated four international preparatory round tables, as envisaged by the ISES/UNCED program.
• 200 experts representing sixteen national ISES Sections concluded that the use of renewables in
the industrialized countries was a political as well as a technological challenge.

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