FutureIsClean

Concrete solutions for a clean future

"The Malaysian Photovoltaic Industry Association (MPIA) is proud to announce that we fully support the FutureIsClean campaign. The Solar Impulse plane project had managed to show the world what the clean energy is capable of when it made long distance trips powered by solar alone. In another development, Cochin International Airport in India had become the world's first ever airport to be powered by solar technology. Indeed 2015 had been a very exciting year for all of us. We hope all these effort will be able to convince the world leaders who gathered at COP21 to make the right decision." Lionel Yap, MPIA Secretary

Since its inception in 2007, MPIA had been pushing for the adoption of solar in Malaysia. We had engaged and partnered with various government bodies, NGOs, businesses and the public to promote solar with many success stories to date. We had seen how the public who at first are skeptical about solar are becoming adopter of solar themselves. At the national level, the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water (KeTTHA) had also approved 500MW worth of quota for the Net Energy Metering program due to start in 2016. This is an exciting piece of news for Malaysia as through this program, the public will be able to generate their own electricity through solar. This only serve as proof as to how much solar had made progress in this part of the world.

The story of #futureisclean

Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg are attempting the first round-the-world solar flight, an adventure to promote the use of clean technologies.

Clean technologies used on the solar aircraft could be used on the ground and reduce 50% of our world’s energy consumption... as of today. But for this, we need political courage and pioneering spirit.

We launched the #futureisclean initiative to create a federation of organizations pushing the replacement of old polluting devices by existing clean technologies.

Bertrand Piccard, Initiator, Chairman and Pilot of Solar Impulse:

This airplane was not built to carry passengers but to carry a message. Flying around the world with no fuel demonstrates that we can reach incredible goals with clean and energy efficient technologies. Let’s use them also on the ground!

André Borschberg, Co-Founder, CEO and Pilot of Solar Impulse:

Solar Impulse has been flying day and night non-stop using renewable energy and energy efficient technologies. In the same way, their use could make our world more energy efficient enabling us to reduce carbon emissions. On a considerable scale. No need to wait for tomorrow as we demonstrated it.'

Kofi Annan, Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate:

The destructive toll that human activity inflicts on our precious ecosystems is no longer sustainable; prosperity built on destruction is not prosperity at all, but only a temporary reprieve from tragedy. We must instead look ahead and promote, clean, alternative, renewable sources such as solar and wind

MANIFESTO: SOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE
WITH CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES

Join Bertrand Piccard’s approach to show that climate change is not an expensive problem requiring heavy financial and behavioral sacrifices, but rather a unique opportunity for profit and job creation:

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Initiators of the #FUTUREISCLEAN initiative

Bertrand
Piccard

Explorer

André
Borschberg

Explorer

Richard
Branson

Adventurer, Philanthropist, Troublemaker

Miguel-Arias
Canete

EU Commissioner

Doris
Leuthard

Swiss Federal Councillor

Adnan
Z. Amin

Director General, IRENA

H.S.H. Prince Albert II
Of Monaco

H.S.H. Prince Albert II Of Monaco

Dr. Sultan Ahmed
Al Jaber

Chairman, Masdar

Robert
Swan

Polar explorer, environmentalist

Christiana
Figueres

Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

Mikhaïl
Gorbatchev

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Rainer
Baake

German State Secretary

Yann
Arthus-Bertrand

Photographers, UNEP Goodwill Embassador

Erik
Lindbergh

Artist, pilot, social entrepreneur

Kofi
Annan

Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Don
Walsh

EXPLORER, OCEANOGRAPHER

Sylvia
Earle

Marine biologist and explorer

Achim
STEINER

UNEP Executive Director and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

Leilani
Munter

CarbonFreeGirl

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Concrete solutions for a Clean Future

Just like onboard Solar Impulse, solutions already exist to reduce energy consumption. We have gathered 357 organizations around this initiative. Some of them sent the solutions they wanted to promote at COP21.

The vote is now over, here are the top 5 solutions you voted for!

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Instead of always focusing on producing more energy, let's save energy by implementing the most energy efficient devices existing today

2
(180)

Promote renewable energy resources

3
(132)

Don't ask people to sacrifice their life style, give them efficient energy devices

Instead of always focusing on producing more energy, let's save energy by implementing the most energy efficient devices existing today.

4
(101)

Push the transition to renewable energy resources

The climate is changing faster than at any time in human history, due in large part to the use of fossil fuels. Transitioning rapidly to a future fuelled by renewable energy is the single most effective way to stave off catastrophic climate change. Fortunately this can be done – in fact is already being done in many countries – in a cost-neutral way using technology available today, creating on average more new jobs than those being lost in the waning fossil fuel industries. Renewable energy is good for the climate, good for the economy, and good for business.

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(76)

Focus on education

Although we have already been able to do great things with solar power, innovative efficiency solutions and global investments, the thing that gives me most confidence is the new generation of committed experts emerging from institutions like the Masdar Institute

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