EU-MENA Cooperation on Solar Power
EUROMED SOLAR WORKSHOP
Sunday, OCTOBER 12th, 2008
King Hussein Convention Center / Dead Sea / near Amman
The Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA), will hold an extraordinary assembly at the King Hussein Convention Center
near Amman from October 11 - 13. As the EMPA is the parliamentary institution of the "Barcelona Process:
Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)", the DESERTEC Project is honoured to organise on Sunday, October 12th, from 10 to 13h,
the EUROMED SOLAR WORKSHOP on EU-MENA Cooperation on Solar Power.
The workshop will introduce to the DESERTEC-project of the German Association of the Club of Rome.
By far the largest, technically accessible source of energy on the planet is to be found in the deserts around the equatorial regions of the earth. The DESERTEC Concept is designed to bring deserts and existing technology into service to improve global security of energy, water and the climate. To this end we propose Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EU-MENA) begin to cooperate in the production of electricity and desalinated water using concentrating solar thermal power and wind turbines in the MENA deserts. These technologies can meet the growing demands for power production and seawater desalination in the MENA region.
Journalists will have access to the meetings and can register with the Press Officer
Thomas Dudrap, Tel. + 32 2 284 4524, deve-press@europarl.europa.eu
