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Awareness (43)
We asked the respondents to assess awareness
in their region. Low (20) and Moderate
(17) levels of awareness were predominant with High
levels (8) of awareness experienced by less that fifth of the
total respondents.
Asked how it would be possible to increase
awareness of Renewable Energy and the Bonn Conference in their
region 44 respondents ranked More conferences
(7) the lowest just below More high profile projects
in Public Sector (10). Rated over four times more effective
than More conferences was Good media coverage
(29), followed by Public information targeting
(21) and High visibility demonstration projects
(18).
Key Aims
The respondents were asked to rank 7 key aims
for the conference from 1 to 3 in order of importance. Political
Commitments (a score of 74) and Funding mechanisms
(74) stood out as the most important key aims, although Political
Commitments was ranked as the number one key aim 19 times to
the 14 of Funding Mechanisms. Of the others; Agreed
multilateral targets (48) came in some way below all,
with little between Clear policy recommendations
(63), Stakeholder commitments to action (62),
“Road map” for increasing share of renewable
energy use (62), and Better coordination of
global efforts on RE initiatives (59).
We also asked the respondents what they thought
the main obstacles in achieving these aims would be, again asking
them to rank a set of 5 obstacles in order of importance. Lack
of political commitment (15 1st rankings/Score 58)
was seen to be the single most important factor by almost as
many repondents as all the other five factors put together (15
vs. 16) . It received 3 times more 1st rankings than the second
placed obstacle, Lack of effective regulation (5/31), and it’s
total score was approximately 3 times that of each of the 3
lowest ranking obstacles; Insufficient capacity in delivery
of renewable energy solutions (3/19), RE solutions
not competitively priced (2/20), and Low level
of involvement of business community (2/21). High
financial risk of renewables (4/25) was ranked third
in overall order of importance.
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