Press release 2009

STARTING FROM TOMORROW ROME BECOMES CAPITAL OF RENEWABLE ENERGY. A FIELD IN A STRONG GROWTH THAT IS 105 BILLION EUROS WORTH
Press release no. 148/09
(29/09/2009)

ZeroEmission 2009 is held in the new Fiera di Roma from Wednesday 30 September to Friday, October 2nd on an exhibition area of over 30,000 square meters (+30% compared to 2008). Tomorrow the green light with the inaugural conference which will be attended, among others, Sen. Raffaele Lauro and the UIL Secretary General Luigi Angeletti.

Rome, 29 September 2009 - Will begin tomorrow at the Fiera di Roma ZeroEmission Rome 2009, the international event dedicated to the development of renewable energies, emission trading and environmental sustainability in the great basin of the Mediterranean. The event represents a strong growth range in which appears as a driving force for economic recovery. Just consider that, according to a recent report by UNEP, the United Nations Program for the Environment, 2008 was the first year when, in the world, private investment devoted to building systems from renewable energy sources exceeded those technologies from fossil fuel. Last year, investment in "green" energy, in fact, were around 105 billion euro, an increase of 5% compared to 2007.

ZeroEmission Rome 2009 is an ensemble of several international trade fair: Eolica Expo Mediterranean (wind power); CO2 Expo (carbon credit market); CCS Expo (Carbon Capture and Storage); Agrienergy Expo (energy from renewable agricultural sources) ; Biofuel Expo (technologies and the Biofuel Industry); PV Rome Mediterranean (photovoltaic technologies for the Mediterranean); CSP Expo Solartech (Concentrating Solar Power and technologies for their production). In conjunction with ZeroEmission will also take place Watermed (Event on water technologies for the Mediterranean) and Geotech Expo (Exhibition on geotechnical industry for the Mediterranean).

The 2009 edition of ZeroEmission will take place in four pavilions (they were three in 2008) on an exhibition area of over 30,000 square meters, an increase of 30% compared to last year. ZeroEmission Rome 2009, will attract 25,000 visitors,and is also characterized by internationalization: around 25% of the over 400 exhibitors (there were 300 in the last edition) comes in fact from 27 foreign countries.

As part of the event there will be a rich calendar of conferences to which this year will take part 377 speakers, divided into 56 sessions. The inaugural meeting tomorrow at 11 am, in Room 6A, is entitled Wind energy technology development and industry of the Mediterranean and will be attended, among others, by Senator Raffaele Lauro - political adviser for national security Economic Development Minister Claudio Scajola - and the Secretary General of the UIL, Luigi Angeletti. In the afternoon, will attend Ermete Realacci, honorary president of Legambiente, and Edo Ronchi, former environment minister and now president of the Foundation Sustainable Development.

This year ZeroEmission Rome is enriched by various "events in the event" including, for example, employs EnerJob- The Energy gives Job, the exhibition area set up to facilitate the matching of supply and demand of work in renewable energy sector. Other events scheduled are: Meet the authors, with the presentation of 26 scientific books on environmental sustainability; the display of vehicles with low environmental impact of Pomos (Polo Sustainable Mobility) of the Lazio region, the photographic exhibition Shots of water, the works of Gloria Tranchida dedicated to the environment, the history of the CSP (Concentrating Solar Power) - realized by GSES (Group for the History of solar energy) and CONASES (National Committee, "The Story of solar energy" ); renewable energy installations shots from APER (Association of Producers of Renewable Energy) on the occasion of the project Glider Safari.

Further advance news on the event are available at www.zeroemission.eu and on ZeroEmissionTV, the first Italian Web TV on climate change and renewable energy.

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