WORKING MEETINGS SUMMIT2006

The world today is facing the negative anthropogenic impact on the environment caused by the development of the world economy. The need to create ecologically clean and effective power engineering is becoming urgent, and the Group of Eight, a club of the world’s most industrialized countries, is going to address this global problem. Hydrogen power engineering has recently moved to the fore as a key solution to energy and ecological problems of our civilization. Hydrogen is an ecologically pure and renewable energy carrier. Many countries are currently considering it as an option. The International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE) was set up in November 2003 to coordinate the efforts in this direction on the initiative of the G8 heads of state. IPHE unites 17 countries, including Russia.

The forthcoming Forum to be held in 2006, with Russia presiding over the G8, will demonstrate the most effective and rational ways of using hydrogen technologies for energy production, which will ensure the energy security and steady advance of civilization. The participants in the Forum will exchange information on possible directions of international cooperation; discuss potential international projects; and demonstrate achievements made by scientists and industrial plants in the use of hydrogen technologies for energy production. The Forum will suggest to the G8 heads of state the most effective ways of developing hydrogen power engineering. It will draft a series of major international agreements, which will considerably change the strategy and scope of alternative energy technologies in this country.

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